{"id":8851,"date":"2011-09-26T10:11:04","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T14:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/systems\/?p=8851"},"modified":"2021-02-11T15:20:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T20:20:50","slug":"smart-parking-app-on-necn-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/smart-parking-app-on-necn-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Cassandras Featured on NECN for \u201cSmart Parking\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-8860 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"SMARTPARK\" src=\"\/systems\/files\/2011\/09\/SMARTPARK-052_crop-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"SMARTPARK\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/files\/2011\/09\/SMARTPARK-052_crop-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/files\/2011\/09\/SMARTPARK-052_crop-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>There is nothing enjoyable about driving around a parking lot looking for an empty space.<br \/>\n\u201cDid you know that 30% of vehicles on the road in any major city downtown are cruising for a parking spot?\u201d asked Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ece\/people\/faculty\/a-g\/christos-cassandras\/\">Christos Cassandras <\/a>(ECE, SE). \u201cAnd that it takes the average driver 7.8 minutes to find a parking spot?\u201d<br \/>\nWhat if you knew exactly which spot was open before you even entered a lot?<br \/>\nCassandras and systems engineering graduate student, Yanfeng Geng, are developing a smart parking application that will allow drivers to reserve and pay for spaces using their smart phones \u2013 and their research was recently featured on <em>New England Cable News (NECN)<\/em>.<br \/>\nThe new application can reduce the amount of gas wasted, lessen air pollution and traffic congestion, and save drivers some of their sanity.<br \/>\n\u201cNot only are these people frustrated, but they actually obstruct everybody else,\u201d recently told<em> NECN.<\/em><br \/>\nIf the application works as well on the streets as in this garage, Cassandras believes that parking may not be such a problem in the future for Boston drivers.<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2011\/valet-parking-the-app\/\">Read more about Smart Parking research in BU Today.<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<em>-Samantha Gordon (COM \u201912)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing enjoyable about driving around a parking lot looking for an empty space. \u201cDid you know that 30% of vehicles on the road in any major city downtown are cruising for a parking spot?\u201d asked Professor Christos Cassandras (ECE, SE). \u201cAnd that it takes the average driver 7.8 minutes to find a parking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1500,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28977,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8851\/revisions\/28977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}