Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Parking occupancy estimation
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Application No.: US16025379Application Date: 2018-07-02
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Publication No.: US10366609B2Publication Date: 2019-07-30
- Inventor: Christopher L. Scofield
- Applicant: INRIX, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US WA Kirkland
- Assignee: INRIX, Inc.
- Current Assignee: INRIX, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Kirkland
- Agency: Cooper Legal Group LLC
- Main IPC: G08G1/14
- IPC: G08G1/14 ; G07B15/02 ; G08G1/01 ; G04B15/02

Abstract:
One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for estimating parking occupancy. For a paid parking period, parking meter transaction data may be acquired for a parking meter encompassed by a zone of one or more parking spaces. The parking meter transaction data may be evaluated to determine status data, such as an estimation of whether one or more parking spaces are available, occupied, and/or will become available. A parking occupancy, indicative of a likelihood of available parking spaces, may be estimated based upon the status data. For a free parking period, the parking occupancy may be estimated based upon vehicle flow data that is indicative of vehicles entering, parking, and/or leaving the one or more parking spaces. In this way, the parking occupancy may be provided to a driver to mitigate wasted time and/or gas otherwise spent searching for an available parking space.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180308357A1 PARKING OCCUPANCY ESTIMATION Public/Granted day:2018-10-25
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