摘要
Parking space is usually very limited in major cities,especially Cairo,leading to traffic congestion,air pollution,and driver frustration.Existing car parking systems tend to tackle parking issues in a non-digitized manner.These systems require the drivers to search for an empty parking space with no guaran-tee of finding any wasting time,resources,and causing unnecessary congestion.To address these issues,this paper proposes a digitized parking system with a proof-of-concept implementation that combines multiple technological concepts into one solution with the advantages of using IoT for real-time tracking of park-ing availability.User authentication and automated payments are handled using a quick response(QR)code on entry and exit.Some experiments were done on real data collected for six different locations in Cairo via a live popular times library.Several machine learning models were investigated in order to estimate the occu-pancy rate of certain places.Moreover,a clear analysis of the differences in per-formance is illustrated with the final model deployed being XGboost.It has achieved the most efficient results with a R^(2) score of 85.7%.
