Detection Of “Abandoned” Vehicles In Public Vehicle Parking Environment

Abstract

It is common to come across “Abandoned” Vehicles [AV] in many of the public Vehicle Parking Environment [VPE] facilities. Very few if any of these vehicles are really abandoned; in most scenarios Motorists drive into a public VPE facility then walk out, creating an impression that they are going to be back in a short while, only to return after a day or so. Lack of proper data sharing for Vehicle Verification [VV] is not making the situation any better. In some cases, vehicles are left and nobody turns-up to claim them for days, the public VPE company is left in limbo, not knowing what to do with such vehicles since they do not have a proper mechanism to verify vehicle ownership. “Abandoned” vehicles pose security risk to the company managing the VPE facility and the public. This study seeks to establish occurrences of AV[s] within the County of Nairobi, and to develop a prototype named “Owner Vehicle Verification System” [OVVS], which will do Vehicle Verification [VV] for “abandoned” vehicles by “fetching” for vehicle ownership information from a “dummy” KRA registry, and “return” information on the “abandoned” vehicles