PARKING OCCUPANCY ESTIMATION

摘要

One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for estimating parking occupancy. For a paid parking period, parking meter transaction data may be acquired for a parking meter encompassed by a zone of one or more parking spaces. The parking meter transaction data may be evaluated to determine status data, such as an estimation of whether one or more parking spaces are available, occupied, and/or will become available. A parking occupancy, indicative of a likelihood of available parking spaces, may be estimated based upon the status data. For a free parking period, the parking occupancy may be estimated based upon vehicle flow data that is indicative of vehicles entering, parking, and/or leaving the one or more parking spaces. In this way, the parking occupancy may be provided to a driver to mitigate wasted time and/or gas otherwise spent searching for an available parking space.

主权项

1. A method for estimating parking occupancy, comprising:
defining a zone encompassing a parking meter; acquiring parking meter transaction data for the parking meter; evaluating the parking meter transaction data to determine status data for one or more parking spaces, the status data comprising an estimation as to whether the one or more parking spaces are available or occupied, the status data comprising an estimated availability time at which one or more occupied parking spaces are estimated to become available; estimating a parking occupancy for the zone based upon the status data; and displaying the parking occupancy through a user interface, the displaying comprising:
responsive to the parking occupancy corresponding to a high occupancy threshold range, displaying a high occupancy status for a user interface element representing the zone through the user interface;responsive to the parking occupancy corresponding a medium occupancy threshold range, displaying a medium occupancy status for the user interface element;responsive to the parking occupancy corresponding a low occupancy threshold range, displaying a low occupancy status for the user interface element; andresponsive to the parking occupancy being indicative of a parking obstruction, displaying an obstruction status for the user interface element.