UCF PARKING ROUTE AND HEAT MAPS

Tristan Gibeau

PARKING ON UCF CAMPUS Crazy Ridicules Time Consuming

= JUST BAD

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MY SOLUTION Create Heat Maps

Usage in parking lots & garages Row detail in lots

Display Routing Data Show the paths traveled to park on

campus Mark the spaces parked

SIMILAR WORK NAPA: Nearest Available Parking Lot App

University of California, Santa Barbra Utilized mobile devices to assist to find nearest parking

area Collecting Activity Data from GPS Readings

Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Irvine Uses GPS recording devices to collect travel data from

the user for route usage JJRT Smart Garage

University of Central Florida Implemented in parking garages to keep track of active

parking spaces to guide drivers to empty spaces

DESIGN iPhone & Android Web App

Geo-location via GPS Calculates current location

Lot/Row & Garage Detection User Web Portal

Allow users to view parking data Display Overlaid Google Maps

IPHONE & ANDROID WEB APP Web App vs. Device App

Pros Easier to distribute to large audience No need to install Updates pushed out easily

Cons Phone sleep issue Can’t run in background

iPhone kind of does

IPHONE & ANDROID WEB APP Web Geolocation

API specification for Firefox & iPhone Safari GPS Coordinates

Acquired from WiFi Cell Triangulation GPS

Barycentric Coordinates Split quadrilateral into two triangles

Used to detect if a point is inside a “square”

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IPHONE & ANDROID WEB APP Parking Lot & Garage Detection

Steps Taken Located in Garage or Lot

If in a Garage Record time spent

If in Lot Detect which row & store time

Error Detection Only Store Lot/Row & Garage Time

If time spent is longer than 10 seconds

IPHONE & ANDROID WEB APP Parking Route Storage

Detect when on campus Stores GPS location every 5 seconds

Does not store when traveling less than 1 MPH GPS Accuracy

Detection Only when accuracy is within 5 meters

Garage Issue When signal is lost

Counters still continue until signal reacquisition

IPHONE & ANDROID WEB APP MySQL Database Storage

When user Parks Data Uploaded to Server

Time of Day Total Time of Trip Lot/Row & Garage Time GPS Route Info

IPHONE & ANDROID WEB APPDEMO

USER WEB PORTAL Server

Apache HTML Server

PHP & MySQL Database Stores time & route info PHP utilized for MySQL queries & webpage backend

User Interface HTML/PHP Website

Display Overlaid Lot & Route Google Maps Displayed at user specific times and day

USER WEB PORTAL Display Lot/Garage Data

Allow Users to select day and time Visual understanding of lot/garage usage

Overlay Parking Route Allow Users to select day and time

Show most travel paths

USER WEB PORTALDEMO

EVALUATION & TESTING Used by 5 people

3 Students 2 Staff Primarily Tristan

Currently collected 35 Trips 177 Lot/Garage Time Data Over 2000 GPS Points

PERFECT SCENARIO & FUTURE WORK Larger User Base

Least 500

Run as Background Process No user interaction

Work with UCF Parking Services

QUESTIONS? COMMENTS?