......................................................................................... 4 2.1 Product Perspective ............................................................................................................................... 4 2.2 Product Features..................................................................................................................................... 4 2.3 Mission, Values, and Goals……………………………………………………………………..4 2.4 System Overview…………………………………………………………………………………4 2.5 Design and Implementation Constraints…………………………………………………...5 2.6 Definitions…………………………………………………………………………………………..5 3. UML Models…………………………………………………………………………………………….6 3.1 Parking Gate Interface……………………………………………………………………………...6 3.2 Manager Interface…………………………………………………………………………………..6 3.3 Parking Lot...
Words: 2773 - Pages: 12
...of ridiculous parking fees? Need to stretch you’re budget further? Can’t find an ideal parking spot? Read on. There’s a little known loophole in Ottawa Municipal Bylaws. Here is what the legislation says: (from website) (insert translation: In Ontario, drivers can renew their license either annually or bi-annually, but first must settle any outstanding tickets. Since the city caps the delinquent fine at $400, a driver can theoretically rack up unlimited tickets for no extra cost. Let me explain the loophole. Although it’s true that the city can issue an infinite number of parking tickets, the city defers collection of overdue and outstanding tickets to Service Ontario. As shown above, Service Ontario implements a per delinquent cap set at $400 every two years. Theoretically, a driver can accumulate an unlimited number of parking tickets and only pay the maximum fine. Unlimited tickets for $400 every two years? More like $400 for a two year parking pass. Seriously, you can park in any eligible parking space any time you want for $400 every two years. I call this the Ultimate V.I.P Parking Plan tm. This program obviously excludes: handicap and emergency services parking, plus no-parking and toe-away zones. However, the rest of the city might as well be your own fucking driveway. Let’s look at how much money you’ll save. Below are the accumulated parking fees over two years for the largest parking companies compared to the Ultimate V.I.P Parking Plan tm: (insert...
Words: 438 - Pages: 2
...not properly accommodated his handicap and had disallowed a deduction from his expected rent contribution. This specific deduction was a “medical” allowance that allowed Mr. Spinner to eat at a local restaurant for one of his meals per day. Mr. Spinner has a severe case of Tourette’s syndrome, and also has a patch over one eye. Medical professionals have stated that Mr. Spinner cannot safely prepare food over an open flame at home, and clearly an electric stovetop would also be dangerous to Mr. Spinner. It is also impossible for Mr. Spinner to keep his apartment clean and organized, so a cleaning crew cleans his apartment once a day. The key issue was that Mr. Spinner wanted to continue getting an allowance to keep eating at a restaurant one per day in the evening, so he could eat hot meals at night. This had been the arrangement when he lived in Tucson. Mr. Spinner had asked for a review of his expected rent contribution. He believed he was having trouble making ends meet, and he wanted more discretionary funds so he could eat at a restaurant in the evenings. Reno Housing Authority responded by increasing his expected contribution to rent (hence reducing his disposable income), but they offered to have a live-in assistant cook hot meals for him instead. Mr. Spinner didn’t want someone living with him; he preferred the previous arrangement. The court basically said that the Reno Housing Authority had sufficiently accommodated Mr. Spinner’s handicap by offering the live-in assistant...
Words: 1051 - Pages: 5
...INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS AND GROUP PROCESSES Going Green to Be Seen: Status, Reputation, and Conspicuous Conservation Vladas Griskevicius Joshua M. Tybur University of Minnesota University of New Mexico Bram Van den Bergh Rotterdam School of Management Why do people purchase proenvironmental “green” products? We argue that buying such products can be construed as altruistic, since green products often cost more and are of lower quality than their conventional counterparts, but green goods benefit the environment for everyone. Because biologists have observed that altruism might function as a “costly signal” associated with status, we examined in 3 experiments how status motives influenced desire for green products. Activating status motives led people to choose green products over more luxurious nongreen products. Supporting the notion that altruism signals one’s willingness and ability to incur costs for others’ benefit, status motives increased desire for green products when shopping in public (but not private) and when green products cost more (but not less) than nongreen products. Findings suggest that status competition can be used to promote proenvironmental behavior. Keywords: altruism, environmental conservation, costly signaling, status competition, consumer behavior ported that the number one reason for purchasing the car is because it “makes a statement about me.” What statement does the Prius make? “It shows the world that its owner...
Words: 12982 - Pages: 52
...Cognitive Dissonance Paper The Misuse of Handicap Parking In today’s hurried world with the busy schedules it seems that a time limit has been set in order for each person to accomplish a to-do list before heading home as the sun fades for the day. Many times when we are in a hurry to pick up the last item needed to prepare dinner, drop of dry cleaning from last week or grab the medication for a sick child before the pharmacy closes, but there never seems to be a parking spot close enough to the front door that would allow us to enter and exit quickly, they are all full up and nothing is left but those for the disabled. As we drive around and around waiting, hoping for someone to get in their car and give up the space only three from the door we become agitated and perhaps even a little angry at the fact that some get the courtesy of parking so close while we have to park all the way in the back and walk what seems blocks just to enter the front door. The question of ‘why are there so many spots for them, couldn’t they take a few out and give everyone else closer parking?” , “ I don’t feel good today, why can’t I park there?”, “ I don’t ever see anyone use the handicap spots, so why shouldn’t I be allowed to use them when I’m in a hurry?” For most people these questions are never asked because we in fact know why there are so many, why parking in them even though we may not feel our best is not allowed or even if they are completely empty most of the time why they are reserved...
Words: 677 - Pages: 3
...so unreliable, ineffective and inefficiency. Ms. Mattesws, a nurse in the intensive care unit, was not the only one figure out that it is not convenient for her to get the medical tools timely because of the disorder and shortage of the tools’ stock-age (Julie Weed, July 10, 2010). But recently, ‘it took Ms.Matthews just a few seconds to find the specialized tubing she needed to deliver medicine to an infant recovering from heart surgery’ (Julie Weed, July 10, 2010). This is the positive result of a new supply system, which is the only one special part of Continuous Performance Improvement. Continuous Performance Improvement is a program “which can examines every aspect of patients stays at the hospital, from the time they arrive in the parking lot until they are discharged, to see what could work better for them and their families (Julie Weed, July 10, 2010).” Therefore, the main goal of...
Words: 336 - Pages: 2
...2013 Subject: Parking Modernization Plan for Buffalo Terms for Proposal The Greater Buffalo Development Authority - Lessee and owner proposes a more efficient Parking Modernization Plan for Buffalo. This will be the solution to the problems we have with parking in Buffalo. The public partnered with the city, so the parking system remains in the public realm. The on-street parking will be operated by a contractor - in this case, Meter men, who operates 30 parking systems across the country. Off-street parking will continue to work with buffalo’s facilities will be operated by a contractor, Buffalo’s Finest Parking. The parking has become more and more a problem and we suggest that it is done so that we can service the public’s parking issues. We recommend that you approve the proposal so we can get started before the winter since there are many areas that need to be addressed. Over $20 million in initial capital improvements for meters and Stanford Parking garage * Construct Stanford Parking garage * Immediate on-street improvements * Overall capital investment estimated at $98 million over term of the lease * Term: 30 years on-street, 50 years off-street * Agreement with the City contains operating standards * Ability to alter provisions over time, if necessary, through the Advisory Committee * The City retains the ability to terminate the agreement if the operating standards are not substantially met * Upgraded parking system returns...
Words: 1469 - Pages: 6
...Skate Park It is about 6:30 pm and I sit on a bench in front of the skate park. The skate park is gated all around except one entrance, where they are aloud to leave and walk in with no problem. There are about twenty skaters, all of them males, divided into five sub groups. Each one divided separately through the skate park. One major group containing eight skaters that are located by the entrance, another group of three located by the far left side of the skate park, four are on the half pipe, two are located on the other side of the half pipe, and the last group are in the middle section on the quarter pipe. The biggest group is separated into two, six of them are sitting down on a table having a conversation and two are standing up besides them holding their own conversation. Most of them look around the same age, teens, and one of them looks much older, mid twenties. The other little groups appear to be much younger, early teen age years. I’m not too far from the bigger group, so I could hear some of their conversation. One of them starts the conversation by asking another person if they were at some place at a certain time and the other responds saying he was but he didn’t see him there. Quickly, the conversation tends to switch to a different topic, now I could hear them start talking about someone’s girlfriend. Which comes out to be a little chaotic, because rapidly I would hear them responding with answers like, “Don’t talk about someone if they’re not...
Words: 709 - Pages: 3
...Ashley M. Taylor English 102 Professor Catanese “Pining for Parking spots” Its 7:45 Monday morning and you’re on the road to campus and hoping that a parking spot is available. Not only do students face this dilemma, but teachers do as well. Some professors are tardy to classes due to traffic but what about the major traffic that comes with trying to find a parking spot on campus? The morning rush of various professionals during the day is time consuming and everyone seems to have some place to go and they are in a rush to get there. Students who live off-campus have to worry about the possibilities of having to miss a class as a result of no parking on campus. With this ongoing dilemma directly affecting the students and faculty, I propose that USC opens another parking garage on campus to better accommodate these people. If the University of South Carolina were to build at least two new parking garages on campus, I guarantee that the complaints about the lack of parking on campus would decrease, and attendance by students as well as professors would not be directly affected by the strain of parking spots on campus. As a result of construction of the Patterson dormitory, USC housing has the stressful task of trying to find proper housing for the incoming freshman of the fall semester. The dorms normally reserved for upperclassmen such as East, South and West Quad, as well as the horseshoe apartments are now being occupied by freshmen and upperclassmen must scramble...
Words: 345 - Pages: 2
...2008 CHARLEY V. WOOTAN AWARD: Outstanding Paper in Policy and Organization Reassessing On-Street Parking Wesley E. Marshall, Norman W. Garrick, and Gilbert Hansen The ongoing debate about the merits and drawbacks of on-street parking offers few definitive answers because comprehensive research in this area has been lacking. The goal is to develop a better understanding of the gamut of issues related to on-street parking, ranging from parking demand and the pedestrian environment to less researched topics such as the efficiency of land use. In addition, the basic question of safety is addressed in a more precise way than previously by taking into account actual vehicle speeds and crash severity levels. The investigation points to on-street parking as crucial in benefiting activity centers on numerous levels. Users of the downtowns consistently valued these landefficient on-street parking spaces over and above off-street surface lots and garages. Low-speed streets with on-street parking also had the lowest fatal and severe crash rates of any road category in the study of 250 Connecticut roadway segments. Part of the reason is that the presence of parking had a measurable effect on vehicle speeds. On-street parking is not purely a device to be used in the right environment; rather, it is a tool to help create that right environment. On-street parking should be more commonly used but especially in situations in which the road is part of the destination and the intent is to cause...
Words: 6226 - Pages: 25
...tuition fee and a room can cost around from College $2,000 to $10,000 per semester, but other expenses make going to college even more expensive. For example, books cost between $100 and $500 each term. The materials are also very expensive. Paper, notebooks, writing utensils, and other supplies required often cost more at the college bookstore than at any local discount department store. For an instance, a package of notepaper costing $2 at a store might cost $5 at a college bookstore. In addition, there are all kinds of special fees added onto the bill at the registration time. A college student might have to pay an insurance fee of $50, a $20 activity fee, a $15 fee to the student government association and anywhere from $500 to $100 for parking. The fees never seem to end. Persuasive Paragraph: The school fair is right around the corner and tickets have just gone on sale. We are selling a limited number of tickets, so move fast and get your tickets while they are still available. This will be an event you will not want to miss! First off, the school fair is a great value when compared with other forms of entertainment. Also, your ticket purchase will help our school, and when you help the school, it helps the entire community. There is even more exciting news! Every ticket you purchase enters you in a drawing where you can win fabulous prizes. And don’t forget, you are going to have tons of fun because there are acres and acres of great rides, fun games, and many other attractions...
Words: 302 - Pages: 2
...where individuals feel they have the support from their instructors. Upon successful completion of the written G1 test and eye exam, individuals will have the opportunity to take part in the beginner’s training program. This program helps prepare individuals for their G2 examinations or simply to learn how to drive. It consists of 10 one on one, one hour sessions with an experienced instructor. Objective: Upon completion of the training program, the trainee is expected to be equipped with all the skills and knowledge to drive a vehicle safely to successfully pass their G2 examinations. Content of training program: The program will cover all aspects of driving including manoeuvring, parking, city and rural driving, lane changes, parallel parks, three-point turns, uphill/downhill parking, roundabouts and intersections. Intended Training Methods: The trainee will observe trainer as he/she models the desired behaviours for driving before the trainee takes the seat, and any time requested by the trainee to demonstrate how to perform tasks. Most of the training will consist of active practice which will allow the trainee to practice performing the task while applying all knowledge and skills during training (pg. 145). They will do this by physically taking charge in the driver seat and learn how to drive with instruction and guidance from the instructor. Conditions of Practice: Pre-training intervention. Most of the knowledge would already be gained by successfully completing...
Words: 2075 - Pages: 9
...When you do not commonly live in downtown, it is very easy to see many problems. Going down during an art festival as we did the list increased easily. The front-runner of problems was the parking issues. Finding a parking spot was as hard as finding a needle in a haystack some lots open some close but never letting one know if you can or cannot it was chicken shoot. If you wanted to be close to the festival hope you have deep pockets the lot closest always run the most. Since the distance between the major hot spot downtown, the Landing the cost goes up and stays up. Your left with the choice try to park close or park far away and walk the long distance to festival. One obvious solution would be the lots having better management so one could be aware that the lot is open or closed. Too many times it was reported that pull up to lot entrance to find it unattended or the closed sign hidden well within the driveway. Once a spot is found close is costly less distance to walk, cheap hopefully you have your walking shoes on its going to a walk to the set meeting point. The “Landing” would be the starting point of this adventure after a long frame of time until the group was all caught back up the festival was a few blocks away. In the travel from the Landing to the festival many people took notice of an old dilapidated building. It looked as if the lower half was once a bank, but the rest of the building old office look as if it was getting ready fall over. The building covers...
Words: 661 - Pages: 3
...Feeding the Monster Have you ever wondered how rich keep getting richer and poor keep getting poorer? Wal-Mart cooperation and its employees are perfect example for that. As a customer it feels good to get such a low prices, but the question is how those items get there on the Shelve? It has a sad and dark story behind. To me human right and morals are more valuable than money, so the way Wal-Mart treats its people from the employees to the customers and community without any consideration doesn’t look right at all. Wal-Mart‘s system designed very smart for its own profit. They hire people with no education and no better choice. Paying them minimum wage and keep them as part time or full time. Not paying overtime whatsoever. If you cannot do they’ll get someone else to do it. Do more pay less. Wal-Mart Offers Their employee’s not affordable health coverage, so they automatically pushed to get Government’s assistant. According to the documentary Wal-Mart’s employees use $86.000, 000 of tax payers’ money every year. After all that little money the labors made spend at store and goes back to feed the monster. It doesn’t matter how much the workers scarify and what they go through all it matters is Wal-Mart’s pocket get broader at any cost. The people who build up Wal-Mart to get richer barely afford food and basic lives essentials they suffer all kind of social and financial embracement. Now you can have a picture of how this company grows bigger every day? It grows...
Words: 691 - Pages: 3
...IdentifiCATION DATA Project: Location: Cadastre Area: Investor: Design Team: ……………………………. ……………………………. ……………………………. 2 LIST OF REFERENCE DOCUMENTS - elementary consultations with the investor - geodesic survey drawings – the existing condition - maps from IMIP 3 BASIC DATA Building A Area balance Lot area: Built-up area: Greenery: Compacted area: Total rough area of the over-ground floors Total rough area of the underground floors Total built-up space of the over-ground floors Total built-up space of the underground floors Office area: Apartments area: Retail area: Number of required parking lots according to the regulation issued by the City of Prague Municipality Number of apartments Office Building Area balance . . . Hotel area: 885m2 Number of required parking lots according to the regulation issued by the City of Prague Municipality Concept – the OFFICE BUILDING 1...
Words: 2447 - Pages: 10
