Friday, October 26, 2007

Smart parking

An intriguing article in IEEE Spectrum's October 2007 edition, entitled "Smart Parking Systems Make It Easier to Find a Parking Space" talks about various high-tech approaches to parking issues in the USA.

The details on the parking indicators at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport are interesting to compare with Cape Town International's more coarsely-grained approach. I think that ACSA probably didn't:
  • think of it

  • want to spend $450 per bay
The details on the Fredericksburg, VA parking enforcement is quite intriguing, both for the security implications of the previous method (chalk marks!) and for the quaint, small-town feel (the first ticket is a warning, along with a map with locations of all six free parking lots and the one paid parking garage). Super LPR here we come!

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