Parking Guidance Systems: Evaluating two parking guidance systems' impact on carbon dioxide emissions and parking time for motorists in congested parking facilities

Sammanfattning: Finding parking space can be difficult these days. Expensive and inconvenientparking lots oftentimes causes many motorists to chooseto park on-street which leads to traffic congestion, car emissions andfrustration. Trying to park in parking facilities can also become a hassleif they are particularly congested during busy days, which leads tocruising cars within the facilities and causes further congestion.Parking guidance systems is a way to solve this by making it easier formotorists to find and access parking space in parking facilities with thetechnology. This study aims to evaluate two kinds of parking guidancesystems to see how efficient they are and try to improve uponthem. This will be done by physically testing the two systems as wellas conducting a survey around one of the systems to gauge the generalopinion and usage of it.The results showed that up to 2 minutes and 21 seconds can be savedin average when using a parking guidance system which would resultin around 1133 grams of CO2 being prevented from release while cruisingfor parking. Some survey participants had problems with the system,such as not understanding how it worked and feeling that it wasredundant at times. This is hopefully resolved in the proposed modelthat is based on the evaluation of the two existing systems. Overallparking guidance systems can be a great help to ensure that motoristscan park as quickly and efficiently as possible.