Abstract:
This project presents an automatic illegal parking detection and alerting system, a case study of Gulu city. In Uganda, whether in cities or towns, illegal parking of vehicles is becoming a common vice. According to the Independent magazine, Christopher Balmoi Omara, Gulu city engineer, says the current traffic mess along the busy streets is due to bad road design that do not provide parking spaces and added that some of the parking spaces being used are meant for bicycle lane and pedestrian walkways as the errant motorists’ park in ungazetted places. With the increasing population, they realized the need for parking, and a study was undertaken that gave a number of proposals on addressing the current traffic challenges which include turning some of the streets into one-way and banning the parking of vehicles on other streets and the city council will partner with city investors to designate parking ground incase parking is completely prohibited in some streets [5].
As vehicles are banned from parking on some streets, there is need monitor and control illegal parking of vehicles in these streets in order to enforce the measures to curb the current traffic challenges in the city.
The developed system allows for automatic detection and alerting of illegal vehicle parking so that the authorities can keep track of vehicle parking at prohibited places.
