Patent ID: 11972685
Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A parking management system for managing the parking of vehicles within an area, the system comprising:
a parking management controller provided remotely from the vehicles, the parking management controller configured to:
determine a target relating to a level of pollution in an area associated with one or more parking spaces;
determine that a first level of pollution in the area is greater than or equal to the target; and
adjust, via a machine learning algorithm utilizing historical information and one or more characteristics of the vehicles and occupants, and based on the determination that the first level of pollution is greater than or equal to the target, a parking policy of the one or more parking spaces in order to disincentivize parking in the area, wherein the parking policy includes one or more parking rules that restrict the vehicles and occupants that are allowed to park in the one or more parking spaces depending on whether the vehicles or occupants have or do not have the one or more characteristics;
monitor the one or more characteristics of the vehicles and/or the occupants of the vehicles parking within the area, wherein the parking policy is re-adjusted according to each of the one or more characteristics of the vehicles and/or the occupants in order to achieve the target relating to the level of pollution in the area, wherein the one or more characteristics of the vehicle and/or the occupants comprises a length and a weight of the vehicle, an emissions standards of the vehicle, a number of seats of the vehicle, an electric-only operating capability of the vehicle, a number of the occupants, an age of the occupants, a destination of the occupants, and information associated with parking permits held by the occupants; and
a vehicle parking controller provided on a vehicle that may park within the area, the vehicle parking controller configured to:
receive information relating to the parking policy from the parking management controller;
determine a location to park the vehicle based on the parking policy information from the parking management controller, a destination of an occupant of the vehicle and a planned or predicted desirable parking duration; and
autonomously operate the vehicle to park in the determined location.