Where to Park Your Bike

How to optimize your bike parking

• Biking is everywhere on Stanford campus
• Lots of bike racks
• Naturally you want to park close to the building you will end up in
• Want to avoid getting to the building without finding a parking spot and then circling back
• Setups for the problem
  • Different cost functions (linear, squared)
  • Blocks of racks, visibility
• A few simple algorithms
• Analysis
• Probability components
• Large parking lots or parking garages or maybe even emergency room