Author(s): Mendoza Silva, Germán Martín
Date: 2015
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/14569
Origin: Repositório Institucional da UNL
Subject(s): Intelligent parking systems; Agent-based modeling and simulation; Integrated simulations; GIS data and services; Software design
The existing parking simulations, as most simulations, are intended to gain insights of a system or to make predictions. The knowledge they have provided has built up over the years, and several research works have devised detailed parking system models. This thesis work describes the use of an agent-based parking simulation in the context of a bigger parking system development. It focuses more on flexibility than on fidelity, showing the case where it is relevant for a parking simulation to consume dynamically changing GIS data from external, online sources and how to address this case. The simulation generates the parking occupancy information that sensing technologies should eventually produce and supplies it to the bigger parking system. It is built as a Java application based on the MASON toolkit and consumes GIS data from an ArcGis Server. The application context of the implemented parking simulation is a university campus with free, on-street parking places.
