Parking occupancy estimation

Реферат: Techniques and systems are provided for estimating parking occupancy. For a paid parking period, parking meter transaction data is acquired for a parking meter encompassed by a zone of parking spaces. The parking meter transaction data is evaluated to determine status data, such as an estimation of whether one or more parking spaces are available, occupied, and/or will become available. A parking occupancy, indicative of a likelihood of available parking spaces, is estimated based upon the status data. For a free parking period, the parking occupancy is estimated based upon vehicle flow data that is indicative of vehicles entering, parking, and leaving the parking spaces. In this way, the parking occupancy may be provided to a driver to mitigate wasted time and gas otherwise spent searching for an available parking space.