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The increased flexibility of one-way station-based and freefloating carsharing over the traditional round-trip carsharing comes at a price. These services encounter new problems, like unbalanced distribution of cars during the day, the necessity of the increased parking supply for one-way carsharing, parking deals with cities for freefloating vehicles etc. Therefore, the importance of tools suitable to investigate and to deal with this kind of problems is rising. Moreover, tools which are able to represent carsharing simulations on a disaggregate level and where the relationship of the supply with the demand can be analyzed have become a neccesity. The tool used in this work is a multi-agent transport simulation framework (MATSim). MATSim provides these features and was used here to investigate one of the important issues of one-way carsharing - parking. Based on simulations where different one-way carsharing scenarios for the city of Zurich was assumed, we observed and analyzed the influence of different parking-supplies on the behavior of carsharing users and the quality of service. Moreover, we present a strategy which allocates parking spaces to each carsharing station in order to satisfy the potential demand with the minimum number of parking spaces. The results show that different parking supplies influence the behavior of users, accessibility to carsharing stations, turnover and quality of service differently. The heuristic presented is successful in allocating the parking lots to the existing stations in order to satisfy the potential demand, while keeping the level of accessibility and turnover at the desired level.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP020 Standing Committee on Emerging and Innovative Public Transport and Technologies. Alternate title: Evaluating Influence of Parking Space on Quality of Service and Demand for One-Way Carsharing: Zurich-Area Case Study

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16-2943

English

15p

2016

Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Case studies; Parking; Quality of service; Simulation; Vehicle sharing

MATSim (Computer program)

Zurich (Switzerland)

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2016 Paper #16-2943

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 12 2016 5:19PM