WESTERN DAKOTA TECH

Western Dakota Tech

Western Dakota Tech

Introduction

Western Dakota Tech (WDT) is a technical institute in Rapid City, South Dakota that offers diplomas and Associate of Applied Science degrees in fields such as Business Management & Marketing, Welding, Practical Nursing, and 24 others. Since its inception in 1968, WDT has grown from a secondary high school education program to an independent institute that educates around 1,000 students and is the only technical school servicing western South Dakota. In this research proposal I will suggest about new parking lots, a gymnasium, cheaper tuition, better English instructors, a coffee shop, Cafeteria and a Library for Western Dakota Tech in order to make a better place (Davis, 2010).

Discussion

New Parking Lots

Congested roads, high traffic, and parking problems are major concerns for Western Dakota Tech (WDT). Congestion of on-street spaces in WDT may give rise to inappropriate parking areas. This section suggest an intelligent and optimized scheme to solve parking space problem for WDT using a reactive search technique (named as Tabu Search) assisted by rough set. Rough set is being used for the extraction of uncertain rules that exist in the databases of parking situations. The inclusion of rough set theory depicts the accuracy and roughness, which are used to characterize uncertainty of the parking lot. Approximation accuracy is employed to depict accuracy of a rough classification according to different dynamic parking scenarios. And as such, the hybrid metaphor proposed comprising of Tabu Search and rough set could provide substantial research directions for other similar hard optimization problems (Davis, 2010).

The significant and dramatic increase in demand for parking spaces due to the increase of on the road vehicles in WDT and the significant shortage of these parking spaces created a challenging problem for managing these spaces. Although on the road parking spaces in WDT are metered, which should reduce the demand, the demand is still significantly high leading also to congested roads and overcrowded transit lines as well as increase in travel time and costs. This demand also leads to economic, social, and environmental losses. And with the continuous increase in the population, the problem becomes more critical. As such parking space optimization and control has become a real challenge for WDT transportation planners. And despite the fact that most of the modern planned WDT provide adequate support and guidance to the drivers about the parking slot selection and effective utilization of parking space, in terms of variable message signs, directional arrows, names of the parking facilities, status, number of available parking spaces, proper entry, exit point of parking, etc. traffic system and drivers face extreme difficulties especially during festival time and in unpredictable situations of traffic congestion (Glover, 2007).

In this section, I will suggest a novel software interface to guide and assist the drivers for better parking space utilization and to tackle unpredictable congested traffic situation on road. The interface is based on an intelligent hybrid scheme combining a Tabu metaphor and rough set for parking space ...