Published Paper Details:

Nowadays parking has become an expensive resource in almost all majorities in the world, and its limited availability is the concurrent cause of urban traffic congestion and air pollution. The common method of ending a parking space is manual where the driver usually and a space on the street through luck and experience. The situation is such that on any given working day approximately 40% of the roads in urban India is taken up for just parking the cars. The problem has been further exacerbated by the fact that nowadays even people from the low-income group are able to own cars. Particularly in the cities and the big towns, there is a problem where the supply demand ratio makes parking a problem for parking space providers, the motorists or both. This paper describes in detail how such a system can be implemented. It does not make use of any sophisticated devices or gadgets thereby ensuring it is economical to implement at a larger scale too! The prime aim of this research is to develop an application that allows the user to book a parking slot for him using his smart-phone and also make the payment online using internet banking. In order to book a parking lot, the only thing that the user needs to do is one-time registration and verification on the mobile application. Based on the current location of the user, the app provides all the nearest parking slots available. Then the user can pick the default shortest parking as provided by the app or pick any other custom location of interest. The user is expected to reach the allotted slot before time runs out and scan the QR code corresponding to the slot which was selected (as mentioned earlier). In case the user fails to reach the spot in time then either the user needs to book the slot again or the user is liable to pay an extra amount as fine to use the same slot. Once the QR code is successfully scanned the user can park his vehicle.