Survey of Reservation Techniques in Smart Parking

Finding a parking spot in a big city is often frustrating for drivers. The search for a parking space can waste a lot of time, that’s why, it is necessary to adopt a good management of car parks in all cities. In recent years, several studies have proposed intelligent parking management systems using parking reservation techniques to guarantee an optimal parking space for drivers meeting their needs. We have proposed in a previous work a distributed parking management system based on multiagent systems where we have explained the different agents ensuring its operation. The reservation agent is an integral part of this system. In this article, we propose a state of the art on the different techniques used in the reservation systems. the aim is to analyze the different solutions proposed in this context and make a comparison according to different criteria such as competitive reservation, the respect of constraints, scalability, optimization, performance… The objective of this study is to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of each technique in order to propose a complete optimization model on which will be based our reservation agent.