Learning on-street parking maps from position information of parked vehicles

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGeospatial Data in a Changing World
Subtitle of host publicationSelected papers of the 19th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science
Place of PublicationCham
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages297-314
Number of pages18
ISBN (electronic)978-3-319-33783-8
ISBN (print)978-3-319-81601-2, 978-3-319-33782-1
Publication statusPublished - 15 May 2016
Event19th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, 2016 - Helsinki, Finland
Duration: 14 Jun 201617 Jun 2016

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NameLecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
PublisherSpringer International Publishing AG
ISSN (Print)1863-2351

Abstract

Many drives in crowded cities end with a challenging parking search, and visitors often do not know which streets allow on-street parking. Therefore, we present a learning-based approach to automatically generate on-street parking maps from parked vehicle positions detected by sensing vehicles. Multiple sets of features are proposed to describe the occupancy of every small road segment and its surroundings at different time instances. The usage of k-means algorithm as unsupervised learning and random forests as supervised learning are compared by applying these feature sets. The proposed approach is evaluated with repeated LiDAR measurements on more than five kilometers of potential parking space length. Our approaches, while keeping the model more generic, reveal slightly better results than an approach from literature. In particular, the unsupervised approach does not need a training data set and is free of any area specific parameter choice.

Keywords

    Crowd-sensing, Machine learning, Map generation, Parking management

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Learning on-street parking maps from position information of parked vehicles. / Bock, Fabian; Liu, Jiaqi; Sester, Monika.
Geospatial Data in a Changing World: Selected papers of the 19th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science. Cham: Springer Verlag, 2016. p. 297-314 (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography).

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Bock, F, Liu, J & Sester, M 2016, Learning on-street parking maps from position information of parked vehicles. in Geospatial Data in a Changing World: Selected papers of the 19th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, Springer Verlag, Cham, pp. 297-314, 19th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, 2016, Helsinki, Finland, 14 Jun 2016. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33783-8_17
Bock, F., Liu, J., & Sester, M. (2016). Learning on-street parking maps from position information of parked vehicles. In Geospatial Data in a Changing World: Selected papers of the 19th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science (pp. 297-314). (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33783-8_17
Bock F, Liu J, Sester M. Learning on-street parking maps from position information of parked vehicles. In Geospatial Data in a Changing World: Selected papers of the 19th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science. Cham: Springer Verlag. 2016. p. 297-314. (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-33783-8_17
Bock, Fabian ; Liu, Jiaqi ; Sester, Monika. / Learning on-street parking maps from position information of parked vehicles. Geospatial Data in a Changing World: Selected papers of the 19th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science. Cham : Springer Verlag, 2016. pp. 297-314 (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography).
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