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Parking location for cars is a significant issue in planning and managing the road networks, especially as majority of the time in their life, the cars are parked somewhere. In the town center areas, the issue escalates itself to a critical level due to severe limitation on the space availability. Hence, as a result, "predict and provide" approach is less likely to be favorable. While a majority of the effort in transport modeling focuses on part of the time during which the cars are in motion, there is little effort in modeling the choice of location to park, although there are several attempts in understanding the drivers' parking choice behavior independent of the routing. This paper integrates the parking location choice with network assignment modeling using an equilibrium approach. In particular, the paper focuses on incorporating car parks as links of a network and describes the procedure to calibrate and validate the link performance characteristics. By this approach, the authors derive a major advantage in utilizing the well known/ tested algorithms to solve for equilibrium network flows and travel times, in addition to estimating the demand for parking at various car parks. By this method we will also be able to test the impact of car park pricing and supply on the demand for parking. This paper illustrates the principles described inter alia, with calibration and validation procedure with real life data, and analyses the demand for parking at two of the off-street car park facilities in the town center of Leeds, England.

01120148

09-0527

English

16p

2009

Transportation Research Board 88th Annual Meeting

DVD

Figures (2) ; References (13) ; Tables (3)

Central business districts; Choice models; Location; Off street parking; Parking; Parking facilities; Traffic equilibrium; Travel surveys; Travel time

Leeds (England)

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I73: Traffic Control

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2009 Paper #09-0527

TRIS, TRB

Jan 30 2009 4:47PM