Recently, we see an increasing number of vehicles coming into our lives, which makes
finding car parks a difficult task. To overcome this challenge, efficient and advanced parking …

In the last decade, crowdsourcing has emerged as a novel mechanism for accomplishing
temporal and spatial critical tasks in transportation with the collective intelligence of …

Considering the increase of urban population and traffic congestion, smart parking is always
a strategic issue to work on, not only in the research field, but also from economic interests …

Widespread use of advanced mobile devices has led to the emergence of a new class of
crowdsourcing called spatial crowdsourcing. Spatial crowdsourcing advances the potential …

We present the design and implementation of ParkMaster, a system that leverages the
ubiquitous smartphone to help drivers find parking spaces in the urban environment …

The interest of intelligent transportation systems and vehicular ad hoc networks has
increased in recent years. As a fundamental building block for the development of …

This paper investigates gamification mechanisms and their application for promoting
participatory urban sensing. Participatory sensing, which utilizes user smartphones as …

Localization systems for outdoor areas using GNSS based systems (like GPS, GLONASS
and more) are nowadays widespread and commonly-available in devices like smartphones …

Studies have shown that drivers often spend over 20 min cruising for parking in city centers,
accounting for as much as 30% of the traffic congestion. In response, cities like San …

Finding available parking spaces in dense urban areas is a globally recognized issue in
urban mobility. Whereas prior studies have focused on outdoor/street parking due to a …