| CPC G08G 1/147 (2013.01) [G01C 21/3685 (2013.01); G08G 1/143 (2013.01)] | 19 Claims |
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1. A parking system for improving identification of available parking spaces in congested zones, comprising:
one or more processors; and
a memory communicably coupled to the one or more processors and storing:
a control module including instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to:
responsive to receiving trajectory information about movement of a searching vehicle, estimate a search time spent by the searching vehicle seeking parking in a location;
aggregate, when the search time satisfies a time threshold, the search time with observed times associated with additional entities parking in the location;
update a parking map according to the observed times when the observed times satisfy a parking threshold indicating a lack of available parking in the location, wherein the parking map identifies active regions where parking is presently lacking; and
provide the parking map with the active regions to identified vehicles proximate to locations associated with the active regions, including instructions to communicate the parking map to the identified vehicles to cause the identified vehicles to actively sense available parking spaces in the active regions by activating at least one sensor and machine perception in the identified vehicles and communicate the available parking spaces to facilitate parking by subsequent vehicles,
wherein the control module includes instructions to provide the parking map causes respective ones of the identified vehicles within the active regions to activate parking identification functions and respective ones of the identified vehicles not within the active regions to conserve resources by disabling the parking identification functions.
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