Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Title proper from title frame. Also available in printed format.

Today, millions of purchased domain sites names are sitting unused with no real web designs or concrete purpose coupled with them. Why would not owners engage a web-hosting domain-parking hotel so they can earn money through eyeballs advertising or click revenue while their sites sits unused? Parking hotels claim access to passive domain monetization through advertising programs tailored to generate revenue via automatic web page generations containing tailored advertisement. When visitors access these web sites, revenue is generated for domain owners. This study sought to investigate if parking hotels’ advertising claim, that you can make money through them, carries substance. Hence, is it possible to generate sufficient revenue using a parking hotel’s advertising revenue model to pay for the cost of domain ownership and, if possible, generate excess revenue? The study’s epistemological approach, trying to distinguish the truth about the hotels’ claims, stems from a ontological discussion around web hosting hotels’ advertising vehicle existence and its ability to generates revenue. The study challenged a parking hotel’s claim through an inductive quantitative approach by watching advertising revenue for 59 domain names over 105 days. Quantitative data concluded, through a statistical approach, that there were insufficient advertising income, approximately a nickel, to cover the annual cost of approximately $6 USD. Therefore, the study concluded that the advertising claims were misleading and recommends that sites are not purchased, or renew, for the purpose of making money through web hotels’ advertising models.

With the growth of economics in Taiwan these years, people have more and more need for better quality of life. The number of motor vehicles has gown up rapidly because of men¡¦s requirement of individualization,convenience and privacy about motor vehicles. However, numbers of problems such as traffic jams, shortage of parking space¡K etc. have arisen from for the huge number of motor vehicles in Taiwan. According to the official statistics of registered motor vehicles in Taiwan, there seems to be a severe shortage of parking space in Taiwan. For the limited space and sequent parking problems, the government of Taiwan had built up several parking lots and legislate to ask private enterprises to solve together. Machinery parking equipment was once rapidly-increased and to be a main way to solve the parking problems for its improvement on the limit of space. Hence, the providers of machinery parking equipments had come up one after another. The need for machinery parking equipments was also increased rapidly at that time. Because of the bull economics, increasing motor vehicles and building trades, more and more machinery parking equipment providers had set up in the 1990s. The number of machinery parking equipment providers had come to its tiptop to be 253 in 1993. However, the number began to collapse for the hypercompetition between all the members and the bear economics in Taiwan. Lots of existing firms then were driven out for price competition launched by inferior firms. By June 2002, the number of machinery parking equipment providers was collapsed to be 50.

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 46-49).

Parking garages have remained fairly outdated even as embedded systems have been introduced virtually everywhere to improve the human existence. Some provide information about whether they are full or not, but that does not offer a better parking experience, it only informs people once they are already there and is inconvenient. This causes people to circle the parking lot numerous times, making the process inefficient and wasteful. The SmartPark parking system fills that gap by providing an automated infrastructure that collects information regarding the availability of parking spaces in a garage. As modern technology grows and expands the connectivity available on automobiles, it would be even possible to interface with the car itself to provide parking information. Each space has an ultrasonic sensor attached to a microcontroller that communicates with a master, who keeps and displays the overall count of spaces available. The purpose of this paper is to provide the capability of dynamically adding and removing slaves, without requiring individual configuration for each slave prior to its deployment. A sequence of communication exchanges will be described in order for a slave to register itself with its master. Through a series of messages, the slave will be able to identify its location and begin reporting the state of its space, and the master will continue to keep track of existing slaves and their states. The result of the research is a protocol that allows successful pairing of a new slave with its master without previous static configuration, which allows an easy deployment of the system without dependence on its original configuration. This functionality will make the system more scalable, allowing the parking system to be extended by connecting new slaves wherever they are needed. It will also make it more maintainable, since slave replacement or relocation will become an easy task. SmartPark can easily be adapted to existing parking structures with only the installation of the master and slave nodes, due to its limited resource requirements. Related work is also discussed and an insight into how this methodology can be used to modernize current automated parking systems is provided. / text

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Landscape Architecture

Hong Kong, together with other major cities, has faced severe traffic congestion problem. A wide range of transport management measures have been implemented to tackle such problem. Among these measures, Park-and-Ride facilities have been adopted to curb the number of cars entering urban area, thereby alleviating the problem of traffic congestion. Park-and-Wide facilities have a long history in US and UK, but it was until the 1980s that the first Park-and-Ride facility was introduced in Hong Kong. In other cities, studies on the use of Park-and-Ride facilities have been conducted to understand the characteristics of users and their trips, together with identification of important factors affecting the use of Park-and-Ride facilities. However, few studies of this kind are available in Hong Kong. The last study in early 2000s solely focused in the pilot scheme in Sheung Shui. To fill this research gap, Sai Kung District will be selected as the case study area so as to enrich the understanding of the users and the trips using Park-and-Ride facilities geographically. Questionnaire survey, together with conditional logit model, will be utilized to analyze the data in a qualitative and quantitative manner. Findings could cast some light on existing characteristics of the users and their trips, as well as some recommendations on future provision of Park-and-Ride facilities. / published_or_final_version / Urban Planning and Design / Master / Master of Science in Urban Planning

published_or_final_version / abstract / toc / Transport Policy and Planning / Master / Master of Arts in Transport Policy and Planning

The main goal of this practicum is to explore the issues of ecosystem services associated with a commercial parking lot in a temperate climatic condition. The site chosen was in Sydney, Australia. The intention of the design is to examine how ecosystem services can be engaged to reduce carbon emission; improve air and water quality; reduce stormwater runoff; mitigate temperature fluctuations; increase biodiversity and enhance human comfort and delight.

Thesis (M.R.P.)--University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. / Open access. Includes bibliographical references (p. 84-86).