A method and apparatus for parking lot metering. The present invention allows multi-space meters to separately manage and control premium parking spaces, such as those for charging electric vehicles or those which supply electric power for engine block heaters in both pay-by-space and pay-and-display systems. Such premium spaces can be managed together over large areas (e.g., a city or region), or may be managed over smaller areas (e.g., the domain of an individual kiosk), or individually per parking space. Management includes pricing, time limits, hours, seasons of operation, and restrictions by vehicle type, and alternative pricing and restrictions for non-premium hours.

Artificially intelligent and dynamic infrastructure management in edge systems is provided. A number of available autonomous compute, networking, and/or cloud vehicles (ACNCV) is determined. Current conditions are extracted within an area in which the available ACNCV is defined to operate. Based on repositioning being needed, repositioning one or more of the available ACNCVs to a location last occupied under similar conditions. Based on the repositioning improving utilization, updating the ACNCV location in a database indicating improvement under current conditions. Location optimization is performed, including plotting a GPS location for each user, weighting each user based on individual utilization, resulting in a weighted k-means clustering to locate one or more centroids, locating in the database an allowable parking area closest to the one or more centroids, calculating a minimum movement among each of the ACNCVs to the allowable parking area, and transmitting repositioning instructions to a selected ACNCV.

The disclosure describes a method for an ego vehicle. The method includes determining that a vehicle needs to park. The method further includes identifying a parking facility within proximity to the vehicle and a corresponding congestion level of the parking facility. The method further includes selecting a first parking model from two or more parking models based on the corresponding congestion level being closer to a first congestion range than a second congestion range. The method further includes identifying a parking spot for the vehicle within the parking facility based on the first parking model.

A parking assistance device includes: an order table configured to record an order of setting the guide routes for autonomous vehicles; a guide calculation unit that calculates the guide routes; a re-calculation unit that re-calculates, in accordance with the order, the guide routes for vehicles among the autonomous vehicles for which the guide routes not overlapping with each other cannot be calculated; a guide setting unit configured to: set the guide routes for vehicles among the autonomous vehicles for which the guide routes not overlapping with each other can be calculated; and not set the guide routes for the vehicles for which the guide routes not overlapping with each other cannot be calculated; a route transmission unit that transmits the set guide routes to the autonomous vehicles; and an order change unit that changes the order.

Methods and systems for communicating between autonomous vehicles are described herein. Such communication may be performed for signaling, collision avoidance, path coordination, and/or autonomous control. A computing device may receive data for the same road segment from autonomous vehicles, including (i) an indication of a location within the road segment, and (ii) an indication of a condition of the road segment. The computing device may generate, from the data for the same road segment, an overall indication of the condition of the road segment, which may include a recommendation to vehicles approaching the road segment. Additionally, the computing device may receive a request from a computing device within a vehicle approaching the road segment to display vehicle data. The overall indication for the road segment may then be displayed on a user interface of the computing device.

A method and apparatus for parking lot metering. The present invention allows multi-space meters to separately manage and control premium parking spaces, such as those for charging electric vehicles or those which supply electric power for engine block heaters in both pay-by-space and pay-an-display systems. Such premium spaces can be managed together over large areas (e.g., a city or region), or may be managed over smaller areas (e.g., the domain of an individual kiosk), or individually per parking space. Management includes pricing, time limits, hours, seasons of operation, and restrictions by vehicle type, and alternative pricing and restrictions for non-premium hours.

A parking management system and methods of operation are disclosed. In one variation, a computer-implemented method comprises receiving positional data concerning a listing location from a listing client device; establishing a radius boundary based on the positional data; filtering one or more databases using the radius boundary to determine an amount of parking spaces listed and the amount of parking spaces reserved within a preset time period; calculating a location-specific transaction rate using the amount of parking spaces listed, the amount of parking spaces reserved, and the preset time period; determining a recommended listing price based on the location-specific transaction rate; and transmitting the recommended listing price to the listing client device.

A parking management apparatus capable of starting management of a parking service without requiring use of ancillary facilities of a parking lot is provided. A parking management apparatus that manages a parking service, including: a position information acquisition unit that acquires position information of a vehicle; a destination information acquisition unit that acquires destination information of the vehicle; a creation unit that creates vicinity parking lot information of a vicinity of a destination provided to the vehicle based on the position information of the vehicle, the destination information of the vehicle, and wide-area parking lot information; and a management unit that specifies a parking lot where the vehicle has entered based on the position information of the vehicle and the wide-area parking lot information or the vicinity parking lot information and starts the management of the parking service in the parking lot.

The present disclosure provides a method for managing a parking lot in a smart city based on an Internet of Things, which is executed by a management platform. The method comprises obtaining a user position of a user platform based on a service platform, determining a candidate parking lot that meets a preset condition; determining time when a vehicle to be parked arrives at the candidate parking lot based on the user position; determining free parking space information when the vehicle to be parked arrives at the candidate parking lot; determining recommendation information based on the free parking space information; and sending the recommendation information to the user platform based on the service platform.

The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for recommending a parking lot in a smart city and an Internet of Things system, implemented based on a management platform of an Internet of Things system for recommending a parking lot in a smart city. The method includes: determining an arrival duration of a user reaching at least one candidate parking lot and a prediction time period corresponding to each candidate parking lot in the at least one candidate parking lot based on a user request; determining an occupation rate of the candidate parking lot during the prediction time period; and determining a recommended parking lot at least based on the occupation rate of the candidate parking lot during the prediction time period and parking lot information of the candidate parking lot.