Priority-based parking system for university campus using IOT and CVRP

Abstract

The significant increase of cars and the population growth due to urban area development are considered as a challenge for the smart city last years. Resulting to traffic congestion, especially in the parking lot. One of the city major impacted infrastructures is the university campus. A parking management system saves time and resolves the traffic congestion. However, the rapid growth inside the university is not taking into consideration by the current parking management system. Also, the universities and other institutions are a hierarchical organism and have a specific priority and roles to be respected for spaces which include parking lot. The current paper addresses the parking management system inside universities with respect of the requirements of institution and proposes architecture based on IoT system to insure the flowless of the traffic inside the university. Also, a hybrid VRP and MDVRP solution to provide a fair distribution of parking lots between different visitors while respecting the priorities.