Email

The figure above is the email that I sent to post office in Malaysia, to question about the disabled parking user registration, but they no reply my email. 

Design (Layout)

Before design the disabled parking space, I will first to combine all the parking space together. It means, all the disabled parking space in a shopping mall will be merging together; it can also cut down the buildup cost, time of maintenance and easy to manage the disabled parking system.

Figure above is the concept design layout of the disabled parking system. The disabled parking area is fully enclose, so the vehicle only can be drive into the parking lot with one entrance. As you can see on the figure above in the red circle, is the ANPR camera. It monitor every single vehicle that come in the parking lot.

Planning

Before design the parking system, I will choose the public places to put in the parking system. It is because there are more people, and more parking space and also more parking abuser in the public places. So I decided place the parking system into the shopping mall.

I have choose three major shopping mall in my area, which are Jusco Tebrau City, KSL City Mall and City Square. And the google map below is the location of the three major shopping mall.

Disabled Parking Specification

On the below above is the design of the parking lot for the disabled parking system. The software I using is Microsoft Vison Professional. The dimensions of parking lot is follow the Malaysian Standard 1184:2002, it is the code of Practice on Access for Disabled people to public building.

Scenario 2

My second scenario is automatic number plate recognition system (ANPR). It is a car number plate verify system to verify the car number plate. The system include camera and computer. Disabled people’s vehicle must be register their vehicle number plate in to the computer before using the disabled parking space. When the non-disabled people’s vehicle park in the disabled parking space, the computer will list out the abuser’s vehicle plate number and giving them penalty ticket by post.

The figure above is the scenario 2 design, the ANPR camera is located on the front of the parking space.

Scenario 1

My first scenario is parking gate. This gate is using the radar detector to detect the chip located inside the vehicle to open the gate. When the vehicle near the parking space, and the radar detector detected the chip, the computer will signal the gate to open, and the vehicle can park in the space. When the car leave, the radar can’t detect any chip signal, and the computer will signal the gate to close.

Problem Review

Base on the research above me had found the problem in the transportation of disabled people. The major problem their facing now is the non-disabled abuse the disabled parking space.

There are several types of abuse of disabled parking space:

1. Parking without an appropriate permit.    
2. Abuse the permit by non-disabled person.
3. Counterfeit a permit in order to park illegally.

Handicap Parking Patrols (Video)

The video below is show how the US people treat the disabled parking abuser and some of the new laws of the parking space.

Must have 2 things (Start from 1 min 45 seconds)

1. The wheel chair logo print on the floor. 

2. The reserve parking sign. 

Disabled Parking Abusers Malaysia

In Malaysia they are too much disabled parking abusers. Due to government and complex’s management did not want to carry out the penalty, such as clamping the wheels of the car that abused the car park for the disabled.

Disabled people in Malaysia

Malaysia is a multi-racial country with a population of 26.64 million, comprising of 58.1% Malays and Pribumi, 32.1% Chinese, 8.3% Indians and 1% other ethnic groups (Department of Statistics, 2006). One of the unique features about Malaysia is that the multi-racial population practices various religions such as Islam, Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism and Christianity. Under the Federal Constitution, Islam is the official religion of Malaysia but there is freedom of worship. The Malay Language is the national language of the country. However, the people are free to use their mother tongue and other languages (The Charleston Advisor, 1999). 

Disabled people in New Zealand

In year 2006, an estimated 660,300 New Zealanders reported a disability, or 17 per cent of the total population, that had some kind of long-lasting physical, sensory, mental or other functional impairment that limited their ability to perform an activity in the manner or within the range considered normal.(Zealand 2007)

Disability increases with age. In 2006, the prevalence of disability ranged from 10 percent of children (0–14 years) to 45 percent of people aged 65 years and over.

For children with disabilities, conditions or health problems that existed at birth and disease or illness were the most common causes. Disease or illness, accidents or injuries and ageing were the most common causes of disability for adults.

New proposal accepted

My new proposal had been accepted by my lecturer Mr Niranjan.
I choosing the disabled driving.
Mr Niranjan ask me keep working on the disabled and I will find out the problem.

New Idea Title

Here are some new title for my proposal
1. Road accident
2. Vehicle security system
3. Disabled driving

After meeting with lecturer

After meeting with my lecturer Mr Niranjan, and he ask me to think 3 industry title and extract it, using mind map method.

First Proposal

My first proposal is rejected.
So I going to think another idea.

Project proposal 1

My first project idea is develop a wheel protector using the proximity sensor technology to protect the mag wheel from curb damage. This project idea is to inform the driver the wheels is going to scrape on the curb during the parallel parking. The proximity sensor which use either electromagnetic or ultrasonic sensor. This sensor will design to place on the wheel arch. As for the sensor position, I need to carry out the experiment to find out where is the best location to place the sensor. I also need to find out the best solution to let the driver easy to use this product.

(The picture above is from: http://www.omron-ap.co.nz/product_info/E2EV/index.asp http://www.omron-ap.com/product_info/E2S/index.asp)