e-Parking: Multi-agent Smart Parking Platform for Dynamic Pricing and Reservation Sharing Service

Parking is a key element of a sustainable urban mobility policy. It plays a fundamental role in travel planning and transport management, as the foremost vector of modal choice, but also as a potential means of freeing up public spaces. In this article we define the smart parking concept, as an application of smart mobility, present a historical analysis of the evolution of smart parking framework and show a statistical analysis of the published patent applications in this field around the world using the ORBIT database. Then, we propose a new smart parking architecture based on multi-agent features. Finally, we introduce the e-Parking system, platform to improve the driver experience of crowded cities. It provides real-time parking prices and offers a reservation and guidance services. In addition, the system assigns an optimal parking for a driver based on the user’s requirements that combine proximity to destination, parking cost and dwell time, while ensuring a fair sharing of public space among users and improves traffic conditions. Our approach is based on dynamic pricing policy. Our scheme is suitable for mixed-usage areas, as it considers the presence of reserved and not reserved driver in the same parking area.

@article{Jioudi2019,
  title     = {e-Parking: Multi-agent Smart Parking Platform for Dynamic Pricing and Reservation Sharing Service},
  journal   = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
  volume    = {10},
  number    = {11},
  year      = {2019},
  publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
  author    = {Bassma Jioudi and Aroua Amari and Fouad Moutaouakkil and Hicham Medromi},
  doi       = {10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0101148},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0101148}
}