AWD 3302: Project Files

Title: Writing Project 1: Annotated Bibliographies

Author: Chi Mo

Date:

Information Science is basically about how to manage information and make the information to be used in a better way. Computer science classes which I have to take, gives^[i.n.] me the solving problems^[i.n.] skills in a logical way. In other words, Information Science helps things “make more sense”. What I found not making sense is that most of street parking in Boston are 2-hour limit parking. Even if you find a street parking spot, it’s normally a 2-hour limit parking. It’s not enough for visiting a friend, traveling around the city or having a meal in a popular restaurant. What can you do in the city within 2 hours? All the parking space near Huntington Ave are 2-hour parking, if you have a class right after another class, 2 hours won’t be enough and you don’t have time to move your car. A ticket would appear on your car. The only place that have 4-hour parking is Ruggles Street near West Village, but we are sharing that street with Wentworth. I know that school has parking garages for students and staffs. I started to drive to class occasionally, on the first day of this summer, I thought there should be fewer students on campus so I drove on the first day of class. It took me 10 minutes to park the car that I didn’t need to move it every 2 hours. But if I want to park in the garage for Summer2 Day Parking only, it’s going to cost me $230, which only four days a week that I have to come to school. 2-hour limit in Boston is not a reasonable time for parking. If you stay in the city for couples of years, you would know that it’s hard to park with enough time not only around Boston University in Allston but also Harvard and MIT in Cambridge. Thus, I think all the 2-hour limit parking around universities should be changed into 4-hour parking or universities should lower the price of parking.^[i.n.]

Inglis, J.(2015),Technology Can Help Solve Parking ProblemsFrontier Group. Retrieved from http://www.frontiergroup.org/blogs/blog /fg/technology-can-help-solve-parking-problems

The city, however, is not managing the supply well. It can be done.^[i.n.]When parking issue become a non-ignoring problem not only in Boston but also in a lot of big cities, people start to think a better way to solve the problem. The article states parking issues in different neighborhoods^[i.n.]. To solve this problem, some city, such as San Francisco, started to real-time monitor the parking available spots. This technology helps people know where can they park so that they won’t waste time on finding a parking spot. In the article, it says that people get frustrating^[i.n.] when they can’t find a parking spot. Which is exactly how I feel when I drive to school. The point of using technology is a good way to solve a real world problem. As a Information Science student, I not only need to develop a technology like this but also need to think how to use technology to solve a problem like this.^[i.n.]

Mcmorrow, P.(2014),Boston’s parking solution is not more parkingBoston Global. Retrieved from https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion /2014/04/15/boston-parking-solution-not-more-parking/fXh0u6PejrBTW6L1LfyF8K/story.html

The article was written at the time that a developer wants^[i.n.] to build a 62 apartments condo, with 52 parking spots. However, it was denied by Roxbury residents. They think the developer should turn the whole building into a parking garage. What will happen next is that it’s harder to drive in Boston and harder to park. One of the biggest mistakes municipalities make is requiring too much parking.  The demand of parking is way too much than it has right now. If the solution is to build more and more parking garage, it’s not going to work. However, in the other word, if the government make the public transportation more convenience, there would be fewer people driving.^[i.n.]

Conti, K.(2014),ommunities make changes to improve parkingBoston Global. Retrieved from https://www.bostonglobe.com /metro/regionals/south/2014/07/12/solution-parking-problems-suburban-centers-may-not-more-parking/oShdB1f44 xiXdjvtnnWj3H/story.html

Parking in the city is always a problem for people especially for those who live in big cities.^[i.n.] A parking study found that between on-street spots and municipal lots, Dedham Square actually had plenty of parking, but it was not being managed properly. But the good thing is that the community is making changes to improve that. At least the community is trying to make it better by making some of the parking spots first 15 minutes free and using electronic pay station instead of the meters. It looks like there are not lack of parking space but need a good management. For example, parking near Northeastern University is not managed well. It’s hard for a person to get something done within 2 hours around school. If the meters’ limit can be changed into 4 hours, there should be less complaints.^[i.n.]

Doyle, P.(2012),Why Parking in Boston Should Be More ExpensiveBoston Magazine. Retrieved from http://www.bostonmagazine.com/2012/10/the-take-parking-in-boston/

Parking in Boston is such a big problem that according to the article,as bad as driving is in Boston, it’s a dream compared with the parking.^[i.n.] Compared with other cities, parking fee in Boston is not so correct. People like to park on the street, like me, is because it’s much cheaper than a garage. I pay $1.25/H for street parking but $12/h in garage. However, in other major cities like Chicago or DC, citizens pay more to street parking than garage. Also, increasing the T fare is not helping the parking problem. I pay 5/day for street parking if I drive to school but 5/day for T with doubled time. If we can increase the street parking fee and decrease the garage parking as well as T fare, the parking problem is Boston shouldn’t be as terrible as now.

Barter, P.(2013)"Cars are parked 95% of the time". Let's check! Reinventing Parking. Retrieved from http://www.reinventingparking.org/2013/02/ cars-are-parked-95-of-time-lets-check.html

The author is a person who cares about everything related with parking. I took a glance at his Google+ profile, all the articles and journals are about parking. This article shows the author's one research on parking. The reason that people care a lot and complaint a lot about the parking is that most of time, the car is parked. When the owner is at home, at work, or shopping, the car need to be parked. According to the articleSince there are 168 hours in a week, the typical UK car is parked 96.5% of the time -  even higher than Shoup's US estimate! The author collected a lot of data and made them into understandable numbers of percentage. One of the most important things of information science is to deal with data. As an information science student, I need to know how to collect data, manage raw data and make it into useful information.^[i.n.]