Existing parking features in navigation apps often only show major lots, lacking information on street parking, variable costs, and real-time availability. Users need a system that can provide a full range of parking options, including cost and availability, and ideally allow for reservation.
Have you noticed how navigation apps include walking & waiting for public transit, but excludes parking & walking for driving? After being late a few times 😅, we finally did. We got curious: what if these apps account for parking? Our resulting paper, Probability-Aware Parking Selection, shows that doing so can improve travel time estimates, save drivers time by routing them to parking, and make for fairer comparisons across transportation modes! And this work is featured today on the MIT Home Page! More here: https://lnkd.in/gvGqcfyc. Paper: https://lnkd.in/g8_6ujTP Code: https://lnkd.in/gJ-4KfUX Joint work with lead author Cameron Hickert, Sirui Li, Zhengbing He #transportation #multimodal #parking #navigation #dynamicprogramming