Crowdsourcing Parking Lot Occupancy using a Mobile Phone Application

Erfan Davami Gita Sukthankar

6/16/2014

Type
conference-proceedings
Region
United States
Sector
Transportation
Category
Citizen Engagement and Crowdsourcing, Civic Technology
Methodology
Case Studies, Quantitative Analysis
Objective
Effectiveness
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Abstract

• Participatory sensing is a specialized form of crowdsourcing for mobile devices in which the users act as sensors to report on local environmental conditions. • This poster describes the process of prototyping a mobile phone crowdsourcing app for monitoring parking availability on a large university campus. • We present a case study of how an agent-based urban model can be used to perform a sensitivity analysis of the comparative susceptibility of different data fusion paradigms to potentially troublesome user behaviors: 1. Poor user enrollment, 2. Infrequent usage, 3. A preponderance of untrustworthy users.