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Implementing Parking Sensors to Improve CSUN Campus Parking
Kevin Fuentes, Abtin Jaberi, Clarissa Nassar, Kenny Phung, Elizabeth Santiago
ENGL 306
11/17/17
Individual Assignments:
· Clarissa Nassar
· Purpose, timetable, background info, request for approval
· Elizabeth Santiago
· Header, background info
· Kenny Phung
· Methods of research
· Kevin Fuentes
· Interview and interview paragraph under methods of research
· Abtin Jaberi
· Methods of research
To: Dr. Harrison, CSUN President
From: Kevin Fuentes, Abtin Jaberi, Clarissa Nassar, Kenny Phung, Elizabeth Santiago, CSUN Students
Date: November 17, 2017
Subject: Implementing Parking Sensors to Improve CSUN Campus Parking
Purpose
To resolve the issue of on campus parking at California State University Northridge, we propose to investigate parking sensors as a solution and write a research report about its effectiveness and benefits to the CSUN community.
Background of The Problem
As a campus composed of commuters, California State University, Northridge encounters many issues with parking availability. This issue affects every member of Cal State Northridge. Professors and students alike are late to class, deteriorating the quality of education offered at school. As listed on the CSUN website, the school offers 9,323 parking spots for its community of more than 40,000 people. Although not every commuter commutes in his or her personal car, the number of parking spaces CSUN provides is equivalent to less than 10% of the student population (Parking Structures). This is not enough to provide enough spaces for the people who do commute in his or her car. This also leads to congestion and accidents in the streets and CSUN parking lots due to the high number of people looking for a spot. Finding a solution to on campus parking is crucial.
The scarcity of parking spaces results in serious ramifications for Cal State Northridge students, faculty, and staff. People can spend up to a half hour looking for a parking space on campus. This is an issue that occurs on other campuses as well. For example, a student from Cal State Long Beach said, "even the professors sometimes struggle, coming in 15 or 20 minutes late to class, saying they couldn't find parking” (Rivera, 2015). Both professors and students end up late to their class due to going around in circles or back and forth to parking structures. The consequence for being late are not that big for professor but for students it is a bigger issue because either they are being marked tardy or absent and some professor are not as comprehending. If some teachers are strict, some students may even be dropped from their classes. Another issue is that “neighbors have complained about student hogging spaces on residential areas” (Rivera, 2015). Once students can not find a solution and do not want to be late to their class, they head residential area near the building of their class and take residents parking. It benefits the student by saving time as well as not having to pay for a parking ticket. This leads to students parking in residential area more, which leads to loss of money for the campus due to the drop in parking ticket or permit sales.
In conjunction to the issue of wasted time, safety is another key reason to find a solution for the Cal State Northridge parking issue. The more time a person spends driving around causes their attention span to decrease and their frustration to increase. Both of these raise a person’s chance of being involved in an accident. A survey conducted by the University of Michigan Transportation Research “show that there are about 10,000 traffic accidents occur due to enter or leave parking lots in 12 million traffic accidents. While in fact the actual number of accidents is much more than the number of the traffic report” (Wang, 2014). Diminishing the time spent looking for a parking space will decrease a student or staff member's risk of being involved in an accident. If the amount of time driving for a parking space is decreased, people are more likely to remain engaged drivers. This will lead to less car accidents on the CSUN campus and to a safer environment for pedestrians.
Understanding that parking availability is a major campus issue affecting staff, students, and visitors will benefit the CSUN community. California currently has the most drivers in the United States, and this is contributed by the amount of campuses and work available. With this growing amount in driver, transportation has become more important than ever for students. Not all students have cars, but for those that do, having less stress can really help a student. It is important that CSUN recognizes how much sensors will help, because it will save a lot of time, gas, and accidents for students and staff. This is the biggest concern of safety for CSUN, so we request permission to do further research on a solution that will benefit California State University, Northridge campus and reputation as well as the students, faculty, and staff of CSUN and other majority commuter universities.
Questions to Be Investigated
At the preliminary stage of our research, our report will need to address the following questions related to the parking sensors are:
1. How many parking spots (staff and student) are available on campus?
2. How many parking passes are issued per semester?
3. What other campuses have high levels of commuting students? And how do they deal with the issue of on campus parking?
4. How much do parking sensors cost?
5. Where will the parking sensors be placed? What size are they?
6. How long will it take for the parking sensors to be implemented?
7. How do the parking sensors work?
8. How do the sensors benefit students?
9. What drawbacks are associated with parking sensors?
10. Do parking sensors have any additional pros? Time, pollution, safety, etc.
We propose dividing our research into three main parts: CSUN data, parking sensor details and efficiency, and additional benefits.
Method of Research
To acquire our information, we will research parking space availability sensors through the CSUN school databases, online sources, and professional experts. We will also go to the library and see if we can find any information about parking sensors or troubles at Cal State Northridge. Based on all the information we found, the database OneSearch, listed on the CSUN Library website yielded the most information about parking sensors.
To narrow down the search options, the keywords we used were: parking structure sensors, parking space sensors, parking space availability sensors, and open parking spot sensors in the OneSearch database on the Oviatt Library Website. We also looked online and found articles published by The Los Angeles Times and Popular Mechanics. Based on what we found from the school’s database, library, and articles from the web, we believe that these following sources should be used for research:
“Buying Guide - Cars and Their Environmental Impact.” National Geographic, National Geographic Partners, 17 Apr. 2017, www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/green-guide/buying-guides/car/environmental-impact/.
“California State University, Northridge.” Forbes, Forbes Magazine, www.forbes.com/colleges/california-state-university-northridge/.
Chen, et al. “Parking Survey Made Efficient in Intelligent Parking Systems.” Procedia Engineering, vol. 137, 2016, pp. 487–495.
“Controlling a Parking Lot Sensor in Patent Application Approval Process.” Politics &Amp; Government Business, 2017, p. 1265.
“Germany: Bosch Introduces New Technology to Find Parking Space.” Just - Auto Global News, 30 Sept. 2015, p. 30.
“Global Smart Parking Market Report 2015-2019 - Increased Use of Data Analytics to Optimize Parking.” PR Newswire Europe Including UK Disclose, 15 Sept. 2015, p. 15.
Hall, Tim, et al. “Spotection: An Efficient and Versatile Parking Spot Detection System.” Journal of Management &Amp; Engineering Integration, vol. 5, no. 2, 2012, pp. 89–97.
Himal Pratap Singh, et al. “An Approach to Implement Cost Efficient Space Detection Technology with Lower Complexity for Smart Parking System.” Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, vol. 15, no. 3, 2015, pp. 415–419.
Huang, Andrew. “Parking Display Makes Its Debut.” University Wire, 31 Mar. 2014, pp. University Wire, Mar 31, 2014.
Jae Kyu Suhr, and Ho Gi Jung. "Sensor Fusion-Based Vacant Parking Slot Detection and Tracking." Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on 15.1 (2014): 21-36. Web.
“Leaders in the Internet of Things for Smart Cities.” Urbiotica, Urbiotica, www.urbiotica.com/en/about-us/.
May Thaw Htet, et al. “Design And Implementation Of Smart Parking System Using Peripheral Interface Controllers And Infrared Sensors.” International Journal of Scientific &Amp; Technology Research, vol. 4, no. 8, 2015, pp. 66–70.
“Parking Structures.” California State University, Northridge, California State University, Northridge, 9 June 2014, www.csun.edu/licensing/parking-structures.
Rivera, Carla. “College campuses are working to lessen parking pains”. Los Angeles Times. 13 Dec. 2015. Web. 14 Nov. 2017.
Ross, Valerie. “Smart Parking Systems Steer Drivers to open spaces.” Popular Mechanics. 16 Feb. 2011. Web. 14 Nov. 2017.
Suhr, J. K., and H. G. Jung, "Sensor Fusion-Based Vacant Parking Slot Detection and Tracking," in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 15, no. 1, p. 21-36, Feb. 2014.
Suhr, Jae Kyu, and Ho Gi Jung. “Automatic Parking Space Detection and Tracking for Underground and Indoor Environments.” Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions On, vol. 63, no. 9, 2016, pp. 5687–5698.
Suhr, J. K., and H. G. Jung, "Automatic Parking Space Detection and Tracking for Underground and Indoor Environments," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 63, no. 9, pp. 5687-5698, Sept. 2016.
Wang, W., Y. Song, J. Zhang, and H. Deng. "Automatic Parking of Vehicles: A Review of Literatures." International Journal of Automotive Technology 15.6 (2014): 967-78. Web.
Wenyu Cai, et al. “Implementation of Smart Parking Guidance System Based on Parking Lots Sensors Networks.” Communication Technology (ICCT), 2015 IEEE 16th International Conference On, 2015, pp. 419–424.
Zhang, Mei, et al. “Smart Parking System Based on Wireless Sensor Network for Large Parking Lots.” Applied Mechanics and Materials, vol. 195-196, 2012, p. 889.
We also plan on interviewing Michael Yu, who is the parking manager at Cal State Northridge. We would like to ask him for his opinion on the parking availability issue and his opinion on adding sensors. We would also like to if he believes that parking sensors are worth having on campus to end the issue on parking availability. We will be also interviewing parking officers and the Chief of Police at Cal State Northridge to obtain their perspectives on the issue of parking. We would like to collect more information about the frequency of on campus car accidents that happen in parking lots.
Timetable
We hope to conclude our research by November 8 and our interview by November 20. We will work on our draft for one week and finish by November 23. We will edit the first draft and then submit it on November 24. We will then continue to edit the first draft until December 6 and submit the final draft on December 8.
Request for Approval
Thank you for approving our plan for this research paper. Any suggestions about this paper would be greatly appreciated.
Implementing Parking Sensors to Improve CSUN Campus Parking
by
Kevin Fuentes, Abtin Jaberi, Clarissa Nassar, Kenny Phung, Elizabeth Santiago
ENGL 306
11/24/17
Individual Assignments:
· Clarissa Nassar
· Background, Problem, Purpose, Recommendations,Images
· Elizabeth Santiago
· Background, Benefits and Drawbacks, Conclusion
· Kenny Phung
·
· Kevin Fuentes
· Problem, Interview
· Abtin Jaberi
· Spcoe, Student Perspective on Parking Sensors
Introduction
Background
As a campus composed of commuters, California State University, Northridge encounters many issues with parking availability. This issue affects every member of Cal State Northridge. Professors and students alike are late to class, deteriorating the quality of education offered at school. As listed on the CSUN website, the school offers 9,323 parking spots for its community of more than 40,000 people. Although not every commuter commutes in his or her personal car, the number of parking spaces CSUN provides is equivalent to less than 10% of the student population (Parking Structures). The amount of parking spaces on campus is not enough to provide enough spaces for the people who do commute in his or her car. This also leads to congestion and accidents on the CSUN streets and parking lots due to the high number of people looking for a spot. Finding a solution to on campus parking is crucial.
This research report explains the difficulty of parking on the CSUN campus as well as the reasons behind these difficulties and the solutions for this problem.
Wasted Time
The scarcity of parking spaces results in serious ramifications for Cal State Northridge students, faculty, and staff. People can spend up to a half hour looking for a parking space on campus. This is an issue that occurs on other campuses as well. For example, a student from Cal State Long Beach said, "even the professors sometimes struggle, coming in 15 or 20 minutes late to class, saying they couldn't find parking” (Rivera, 2015). Both professors and students end up late to their class due to going around in circles or back and forth to parking structures. The consequence for being late are not that big for professor but for students it is a bigger issue because either they are being marked tardy or absent and some professor are not as comprehending. If some teachers are strict, some students may even be dropped from their classes. Another issue is that “neighbors have complained about student hogging spaces on residential areas” (Rivera, 2015). Once students can not find a solution and do not want to be late to their class, they head residential area near the building of their class and take residents parking. It benefits the student by saving time as well as not having to pay for a parking ticket. This leads to students parking in residential area more, which leads to loss of money for the campus due to the drop in parking ticket or permit sales.
Decreased Safety
In conjunction to the issue of wasted time, safety is another key reason to find a solution for the Cal State Northridge parking issue. The more time a person spends driving around causes their attention span to decrease and their frustration to increase. Both of these raise a person’s chance of being involved in an accident. A survey conducted by the University of Michigan Transportation Research “show that there are about 10,000 traffic accidents occur due to enter or leave parking lots in 12 million traffic accidents. While in fact the actual number of accidents is much more than the number of the traffic report” (Wang, 2014). Diminishing the time spent looking for a parking space will decrease a student or staff member's risk of being involved in an accident. If the amount of time driving for a parking space is decreased, people are more likely to remain engaged drivers. This will lead to less car accidents on the CSUN campus and to a safer environment for pedestrians.
Understanding that parking availability is a major campus issue affecting staff, students, and visitors will benefit the CSUN community. California currently has the most drivers in the United States, and this is contributed by the amount of campuses and work available. With this growing amount in driver, transportation has become more important than ever for students. Not all students have cars, but for those that do, having less stress can really help a student. It is important that CSUN recognizes how much sensors will help, because it will save a lot of time, gas, and accidents for students and staff. This is the biggest concern of safety for CSUN, so we request permission to do further research on a solution that will benefit California State University, Northridge campus and reputation as well as the students, faculty, and staff of CSUN and other majority commuter universities.
Environmental Impact
The environment is another influencing factor behind implementing a system of parking sensors. The amount of time people spend in their cars each day looking for parking is lengthy and therefore, it contributes to the carbon emissions on Earth. This added pollution could be diminished if people knew where open parking spaces could be found. The National Geographic states that “an automobile's environmental impact, perhaps 80 to 90 percent, will be due to fuel consumption and emissions of air pollution and greenhouse gases that climate scientists say are driving global warming” (Buying Guide - Cars and Their Environmental Impact). Students, staff, and faculty of California State University, Northridge could diminish their carbon footprint by installing sensors to monitor open parking spaces because the sensors would limit the amount of time people drive around unsuccessfully locating a parking spot.
Problem
California State University Northridge is one of the largest campuses in the United States, educating over 40,000 students per year (California State University Northridge). As a result of the campus’s sizable population, parking is a major issue on campus. Finding a parking spot, especially early in the semester, is difficult. Packed parking garages, stressed students, and clogged intersections have become staples of the CSUN campus. All of these situations are linked to the limited parking on campus. Action must be taken to resolve the campus’s parking issue because it will help students, improve safety, and help the environment. Students, as well as staff and faculty, will be able to spend less time driving around in their cars looking for a place to park their cars and as a result, they will be able to spend time on more meaningful tasks. Safety on campus will be improved if parking is easier to find because people will be more likely to drive focused and calmly. Drivers can pay attention to pedestrians and other moving vehicles instead of hunting for an empty parking space. Pedestrians will feel safe walking around parking garages and cars will be less involved in accidents. Resolving the parking issue will also benefit the environment. People will create less pollution because they will spend less time driving around looking for a space to park their car. Improving parking availability at CSUN will help the students, faculty, staff, and environment.
Purpose
To resolve the issue of on campus parking at California State University Northridge, we propose to investigate parking sensors as a solution and write a research report about its effectiveness and benefits to the CSUN community.
Scope
Discussion
Commuters vs. Parking Spaces
Chart 1: Enrollment at California State University, Northridge
www.csun.edu/institutional-research/enrollment-csun-fall-2013
This chart shows the number of enrolled students at California State University, Northridge in the 2013 academic semester. In 2013, university’s enrollment was at approximately 38,000 students. Since 2013, the number of enrolled students at Cal State Northridge has increased to over 40,000 students.
California State University, Northridge is one of the largest university campuses in the state of California. Since it is the one of the largest University majority of the students are commuters, yet they have limited parking spots for the amount of students and faculty at CSUN. There are only 9,323 parking spots offered, compared to the 40,000 people that attend or work at CSUN. Other schools like Cal State Long Beach and University of Michigan experience parking troubles, and believe that there would be less car accidents if parking sensors were implemented.
How Parking Sensors Work
All sensor come in various sizes and all “sensors operate wirelessly and [most] are powered by batteries, which eliminates the effort and expense of having to lay cables”(Germany: Bosch Introduces, 2015 ) Parking sensors work based on waves emission and sensitivity. The sensor are installed in the parking bay. It detects whether a car is entering or leaving the spot, the sensor will recognize it and send a wave on whether or not there is a spot still open.
Sensors are very important as they can help students by telling them whether a spot is open or not on a floor. Student, staff, or faculty can bypass that floor if they know that their isn’t a spot open. This will lead to students saving time and driving to the floor with parking. This relieves the traffic in the parking lots, and can prevent an accident.
The Benefits and Drawbacks of the Parking Sensors
Parking sensors come with its benefits and drawbacks. Some benefits that parking sensor will bring to the CSUN community will be saving time, one's safety, reduced pollution emission and improve the increases sales. The sensors will save the students and faculty time so that they don't have to drive around as much looking for a parking spots on every parking structure or parking lot. Looking for parking leads to frustration and “significantly worsens traffic conditions for everyone; intelligent sensor systems that identify which spots are open can potentially make the road less congested for all drivers” (Ross, 2011). The students and faculty will also feel safer, because there would not be as many cars looking for spots, which will lead to less car accidents. It will also reduce the air pollution that the car discharge around the CSUN campus. The parking sensors will bring an increase in sales from the parking permits because it will help utilize all the parking more efficiently. Each parking spot will be filled which will bring more students that are looking for parking spot either in the parking structure or parking lot. The sensor drawbacks is that it will not inform the time that the parking space will be empty, technology malfunction and costly depending on the model. For example, people go in and out of the parking lot every minute, so anything could happen during the time you try to get to a certain spot. Parking sensors can also be ineffective at times due to malfunctions, which could lead to drivers looking for a spot, that was never actually available. Last but not least depending on the model of the sensor for example the models like Bosch or “Urbiotica's, [which] costs between $200 and $400 per sensor to install”(Ross, 2011).
Student Perspective on Parking Sensors
Parking Manager Interview On Parking Sensors
Research needs to be extensive to expose the root of the problem. When conducting and maintaining structure of the parking services, feedback is absolutely crucial. Michael Yu, the parking lot manager provides support to enhance parking operation by administering strategies for long term operations. Mr. Yu oversees all parking and traffic regulations. During the course of the interview, Michael was asked a series of questions that clarified the Department of Parking Services objective. Their objective is to provide positive impact, and create positive perceptions of the Parking department. Their goal is to help the students and provide a better parking experience. Michael Yu explained that the cost of implementing smart parking is estimated to cost $500,000. In order to increase student, faculty, and staff satisfaction, smart parking will need to be implemented. Smart parking will provide guidance by using live footage which will be record parking availability. Every car will counted to the exact number and those results will help determine parking availability. The financial resources rely heavily on parking permit purchase. Approximately 47% of students purchase parking permits. The revenue and profit gained from this business helps build, enhance and advance refurbishments to existing parking structures.
Description of the survey
From the survey conducted on 17th November 2017, it was established that parking on Campus is a problem that needs to be addressed. Out of 17 respondents, 12 stated that they park on campus while only 5 don't. This showed that the respondents are dependent on-campus parking spaces. Additionally, it was found out that parking on campus is mainly done on Mondays. Of 12 respondents who park on campus, 9 respondents stated that they park on Mondays, 3 on Tuesdays, 1 on Wednesday, and 1 on Friday. When asked how long they take before they can park, it was found out that 6 respondents take between 1-5 minutes, 5 respondent take 10-15 minutes, 2 takes 20-30 minutes, and 1 takes 45-60 minutes. When asked about the most difficult time to find parking, 7 respondents stated morning hours, 5 stated afternoon, and 3 stated between 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Asked which day is the most difficult to find parking, 9 respondents stated Mondays, 2 stated Tuesdays, 1 stated Wednesdays, and 1 stated Thursdays. Asked whether respondents have ever been late due to parking difficulties, 12 stated yes while 5 said no. Only 1 respondent has experienced an accident while parking on campus. 2 respondents stated that installation of parking sensors could not bring about benefits while 15 respondents said it will.
From the data collected, it is apparent that there is a huge number of learners that are dependent on available parking spaces on campus. Additionally, it was found that the second and third days of the week are the most difficult in finding a parking on campus. The survey was not able to establish which it is so. It was established that during morning hours, it is the most challenging time to find a parking space. Surprisingly, it can also be evidenced that a lot of valuable time is lost when respondents are looking for a parking lot, which is a problem in most campuses. This means that if there is a way of helping the respondents find a parking space, the lost time can be reduced significantly.
Conclusion
To resolve the issue of on campus parking for the California State University Northridge, we addressed how big of an issue it was becoming to the students, staff, and faculty. The parking availability was becoming dangerous issue to one's life because of car collisions while looking for parking. So we came up with a solution that will improve the issue which is to implement parking sensors which is a vehicle occupancy detector that works wirelessly and place them to all parking structures and parking lots. The parking sensor comes with their benefits and their drawbacks. A drawback would be not being to notify you in advance when someone is leaving the parking spot. A few benefits time reduction for looking for parking, no more collision with other cars and it guarantees one's safety. Once the parking sensor are implemented if they do prove to be beneficial to all then we can expand our solution to other Universities with similar parking issues.
Recommendations
To resolve the parking issues on the California State University, Northridge campus, we recommend that the university implement a system of electronic parking sensors. The three main reasons for the addition of parking sensors are:
· Lessens the Amount of Wasted Time
· Improves Safety
· Better for the Environment
As stated in the Global Smart Parking Market Report 2015-2019, these sensors enables parking managers, attendants, and other staff to monitor parking spaces, collect data about open parking spots, and display the locations of parking space openings. From this collection of information, drivers are able to discover where parking is available and how much parking is open in an area (Global Smart Parking Market Report 2015-2019 - Increased Use of Data Analytics to Optimize Parking). This method of sharing information proves to be beneficial to both the parking managers and drivers. Parking managers no longer have to be worried about the traffic jams and accidents that occur inside parking lots when parking is limited. The drivers are now able to determine which building, floor, and row has spaces available for them to park in. It decreases the amount of time drivers look for a parking space as well as the stress drivers experience chasing a parking space in the middle of a crowded parking lot. At Cal State Northridge, the addition of parking sensors would be welcome. Hundreds of students, staff, and faculty park on campus everyday and many of them spend up to half an hour looking for parking. Implementing a system of parking sensors would save the members of California State University, Northridge precious minutes each day. The implementation of parking sensors would also make the experience of parking on campus a more pleasant one because people would be less worried and stressed about not finding a space to park their car. Students and faculty would arrive on time to class and they would be in better mood to learn. We also recommend this system because it “ enable drivers to find parking faster, reducing carbon emissions” (Chen) and therefore, improving the conditions of the environment. Parking sensors provides many benefits for the CSUN community, including its environment.
Figure 1: Urbiotica Smart Parking Sensors
www.rcrwireless.com/wp-content/uploads
This figure shows a board part of the Uribiotica Smart Parking Sensor system. It displays the number of parking spaces available in two different parking structures or lots of an area.
We recommend that the California State University, Northridge campus buys Urbiotica Smart Parking Sensors to install in the parking structures on campus. Urbiotica is a company that was founded in 2008 and since their founding, they have installed thousands of parking sensors around the world (Leaders in the Internet of Things for Smart Cities). The company’s sensors are sensors with a light that are installed above the parking space and it transmits its data to a board that can be placed at the entrance of a parking garage (Leaders in the Internet of Things for Smart Cities). The board displays the number of parking spaces available in the area. In the case of California State University, Northridge, it could be programmed to display the number of available spaces on each floor of a parking structure or lot. The sensors are expensive because each one costs $200 to $400 (Ross), but the benefits outweigh the costs of the item. These sensors would greatly benefit the population of California State University, Northridge.
Individual Assignments:
· Clarissa Nassar
· Purpose, timetable, background info, request for approval
· Elizabeth Santiago
· Header, background info
· Kenny Phung
· Methods of research
· Kevin Fuentes
· Interview and interview paragraph under methods of research
· Abtin Jaberi
· Methods of research
NOV. 24: Please complete it by Tuesday
Long Report Body Draft 1 DUE!
Background - Kenny
Problem - Kevin
Purpose - Done
Scope - Abtin
Discussion - Everyone
Conclusion - Elizabeth
Recommendation- Clarissa
Discussion Sections
Problems- Kevin
Interview Questions- Kenny
Statistics- Elizabeth
Survey- Abtin
Solutions- Clarissa
Simplified Question List:
1. CSUN data & similar campus data
2. How long and how much for parking sensor implementation?
3. Efficiency of product, size, location?
4. How sensors would benefit students? Pros & cons? Time, pollution, safety, etc.
5. How do sensors work?
Possible Sources (Websites):
· http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-college-parking-20151213-story.html
https://www.quora.com/How-do-parking-sensors-work-How-much-does-it-cost-to-install-one-in-a-vehicle
Possible Sources (Database):
· https://search.proquest.com/docview/217188639/EE996A208B364094PQ/15?accountid=7285
Contact Info:
· Michael Yu - Parking Manager → [email protected]
· Email for info about parking stats
· How many parking passes issued?
· Which days are most packed?
· Number of accidents in parking structures and days w/ highest number?
· How does CSUN parking compare to other CSUs?
· Improvements from his perspective?
https://goo.gl/forms/LWZAEtbAerYcVXII2
