EVEREST ENRICH PARKING LOT DESIGN BY MATHEMATICS

Physicists Map Where we Should Park our Car According to Math

1.EVEREST ENRICH had decided to use mathematics to answer where is the best place to park our car. The criteria? To find the parking space that minimizes time spent in the lot.

2.Mathematics allows us to make intelligent decisions, It allows us to approach a complex world with some insights.

3.In our new study, the physicists map three simple parking strategies onto an idealized, single row parking lot. We called our strategies; meek, optimistic, and prudent.

4.Meek refers to drivers who grab the first space available. Optimistic indicates the drivers that gamble on finding a space right next to the entrance. Meanwhile, prudent refers to when the drivers take the middle path. 

5.The R & D Center used multiple techniques to compute the relative merits of each strategy.

6.For starters, the meek strategy mirrored a dynamic seen in the micro-tubules that provide scaffolding within living cells.

7.They, therefore, used an equation that describes a micro-tubule's length to calculate the chain of "meek" cars at the far end of the lot.

8.Sometimes there are connections between things that seem to have no connection, In this case, the connection to micro-tubule dynamics made the problem solvable.

9.The optimistic strategy was described by a differential equation, and the prudent strategy was represented by a simulation that allowed the physicists to compute, on average, the average density of spots, and the amount of backtracking required.

10. In the end, the prudent strategy won, followed closely by the optimistic strategy. 

11. Our R & D Center, however, acknowledges that our approach sacrifices real-world applicability in exchange for mathematical insight. If we really want to be an engineer, we have to take into account how fast people are driving, the actual designs of the parking lot and spaces—all these things.

12. Once you start being completely realistic, [every parking situation is different] and we lose the possibility of explaining anything.

13. Still, for our R & D Center found that, the exercise was about the joy of thinking analytically about everyday situations.

14. We're living in a crowded society, and we always encounter crowding phenomena in parking lots, traffic patterns, etc.

15.If we can look at it with the right eyes, we can account for something.


MKR