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1. Hinal Pithia – hinal.pithia@utoronto.ca 2. Angelo – angelomacatangay@utoronto.ca - 996108411 3. Andrew – andrew.dmytrasz@utoronto.ca 4. Jimmy – tayotiwojay@yahoo.ca ** __Primary and Secondary Roles__ ** The majority of the primary and secondary roles were allocated based on each group member’s strengths. This allows us to utilize each individual’s skills to a high level of productivity which we propose will ensure effectiveness as well as efficiency. (I kind of started making stuff up so please fill in as much as you can J  ) ** // Hinal // ** Hinal’s strengths include project management, organization of the final product as well as editing and presenting. ** // Angelo // ** I am a Digital enterprise management specialist student and Professional writing and communication student at University of Toronto at Mississauga. I am interested in the marketing, management and communications aspect of my studies where I have gained experience on various marketing, e-business and promotion strategies. I can contribute by business-savvy thinking to the group to ensure that we create a product that meets consumer needs while ensuring profitability. I also can use my design skills through various design courses at Sheridan. I am able to use Adobe Illustrator program to help us with the prototype of our future product. I also have work experience as a current sales manager at Sears. I can contribute my time management and teamwork skills when working with my group for this task. As a team, I expect everyone to co-operate and use his or her specific skills and talents for this task. Everyone needs to support each other to ensure that our objective for this task is met. ** // Andrew // ** Andrew’s strengths include writing, web design and research. Andrew will be looking into both primary and secondary data. In addition, he will contribute to designing a webpage if required for our final presentation. ** // Jimmy // ** Jimi’s strengths are presentation, organization and small experience and familiarity with design (Photoshop, illustration and video editing) ** __Project Charter__ ** Since our class meets twice a week and the pace of submission of assignments is fairly rapid, we have to utilize our time to the best of our capabilities. Many of our group members have other courses they are enrolled in for the current semester have part time jobs as well as participate in extra- curricular activities. This makes it extremely difficult to continuously meet face-to-face for daily meetings or whenever group collaboration is required. Thus, we have collectively decided to utilize the Internet to its fullest capabilities. We have already created a Wikispace for our group. All group members are able to post content, edit content and interact on this page using real time. We also plan on using e-mail as a back up and Skype to conduct simultaneous meetings. In addition, we will utilize the lab time as it proves to be very convenient for all of our group members. Our collective expectation is that we provide an insightful deliverable by the end of this course. All group members have a desire to receive a good final mark and we will work towards this by ensuring that all our work is submitted on time; this includes meeting internal group deadlines to ensure we leave time to edit the final document, and assure to deliver a satisfying output. Also, we expect to gain further knowledge about the field while completing our project. Most importantly, we will challenge ourselves to produce the best possible outcome we can. ** __Indication of how each member contributed to the creation of the document__ ** ** __A concise statement about the purpose of your system__ ** The system we have chosen to create is an application that can be used on all smartphone and android platforms which allows one to quickly and easily locate a vacant parking spot at UTM. We have noticed through monitoring and self experience that to find a parking spot that is not in use at UTM’s parking lots is a difficult task and wastes a significant amount of time. Our application will utilize a GPS tracking system for all students, faculty, staff and visitors to easily indicate through the system where they are and which parking spot is either taken or vacant. In addition, this application will provide a useful feature for those who constantly cannot recall where they have parked. By using the GPS tracking system to indicate they have parked, the application will then store that information in its system and will provide walking directions back to the car from any location on the UTM campus. Another feature provided is a payment system through the application. ** __Identification of the types of users and description of some of their goals__ ** The type of users for this application will be students and faculty members, as well as any visitors who drive to the campus. This includes current students and faculty throughout the years who drive as well as occasional drivers. The main goal of the application will be to save time in locating an empty spot at any parking lot on campus. Some of the secondary goals of the application will be to help people be able to locate their vehicle again when they are returning. As well as a mobile payment option for people so they do not have to walk over to a ticket booth and back to their car again. Overall, every users goal is to ensure that minimal steps are taken to receive their outcome which is exactly what the system is in place to do. ** __Indication of a similar system currently in place (provide an image of the system and indicate the types of changes that you propose to make)__ ** There are current technologies that are active and are available with similar objective of creating a parking management system. However, none of them specifically target the University of Toronto at Mississauga community. Busy areas such as the Yorkdale mall currently utilize a parking system promoting convenience for its customers for parking. A current parking management system is available at the Yorkdale shopping centre (also available in other busy parking centres such as York University). This parking management system is available through Yorkdale’s official website and on the actual parking centre at Yorkdale. Yorkdale mall also provides a parking management system within its parking centre. Customers are able to see which parking areas are still available within the mall’s parking areas. These indicators are located in the entrance of each parking area and levels at the parking centre. With this on-site information, they distribute this information every 15 minutes through the official and mobile website. The official Yorkdale mall website uses a map to show its consumers parking availability in their parking centre. The website lists which areas of the parking centre has an available parking spot. It also lists where a customer will have difficulties to find a parking spot. This particular parking system is updated every 15 minutes through its official website.One of the changes that we propose to make is to create a more convenient parking management system that will target the students at University of Toronto at Mississauga. A similar parking management system like the one in Yorkdale respond slowly because of its 15-minute delay. There is no instantaneous retrieval of parking information offered with both its official and mobile websites. Retrieval of parking information needs instantaneous response since many consumers are constantly thinking where to park when coming in to a parking lot. A new parking management system would allow drivers to retrieve information faster to find out where to park rather than guessing if the information is accurate. We would need to create a mobile application that would allow consumers to retrieve instantaneous parking information ensuring that they receive accurate information about the parking spaces available within the campus of University of Toronto at Mississauga.
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**__(see image on the actual document)__** Example: http://www.yorkdale.com/plan-your-visit/parking