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Emissions reduction in vehicle parking

  • US 9,892,639 B2
  • Filed: 03/17/2015
  • Issued: 02/13/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for reducing vehicle emissions in a parking structure, the system comprising:

  • one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media;

    a processing system;

    one or more vehicle identification devices operative to identify a vehicle entering and leaving the parking structure;

    a data store contained on the one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media comprising;

    one or more attractiveness values assigned to zones in the parking structure, each zone representing a plurality of parking spaces within the parking structure;

    a first probability value (pf) denoting a probability of a driver following a recommendation;

    a second probability value (pc) denoting a probability of the driver not trusting the recommendation;

    program instructions for an emissions reduction service stored on the one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media that direct the processing system to;

    in response to receiving, from the one or more vehicle identification devices, an indication of a particular vehicle entering the parking structure;

    determine a zone recommendation by selecting a particular zone, of the zones in the parking structure having the highest attractiveness value with an occupancy ratio lower than an occupancy threshold;

    when a notification interface is available to a driver of the particular vehicle, render the zone recommendation on the notification interface, select a first random value and, when the first random value is lesser than or equal to pf, modify the data store to indicate that an assigned zone of the particular vehicle is the zone recommendation;

    when the notification interface is not available to the driver of the particular vehicle, or when the first random value is higher than pf, select a second random value and,when the second random value is less than or equal to pc, modify the data store to indicate that the assigned zone of the particular vehicle is the zone having the highest attractiveness value, having at least one available space, andwhen the second random value is greater than pc, modify the data store to indicate that the assigned zone of the particular vehicle is a zone randomly selected from one or more zones, of the zones in the parking structure, having at least one available space; and

    in response to receiving, from one of the one or more vehicle identification devices, an indication of the particular vehicle leaving the parking structure, modify the data store to indicate that the particular vehicle vacated the assigned zone;

    a plurality of parking survey devices, the parking survey devices identifying, from the zones in the parking structure, an actual parking zone of the particular vehicle, and the parking survey devices comprising one or more roving vehicle identification devices, one or more vehicle zone identification devices associated with a zone of the zones in the parking structure, one or more CCTV systems, one or more mobile devices executing one or more applications, or a combination thereof;

    program instructions, that, in response to receiving from the parking survey devices an indication of the actual parking zone of the particular vehicle, modify the data store to store the actual parking zone of the particular vehicle; and

    program instructions to;

    analyze a set of parking events from a history of parking events stored on the data store; and

    in response to a divergence between the actual parking zone and the zone recommendation for the set of parking events, adjust parameter values, the parameter values comprising the first probability value (pf), the second probability value (pc), and the attractiveness value of the actual parking zone.

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