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Cruising for parking is a phenomenon of circulation under low speed, looking for a parking space on the street, derived from the uncertainty about the existence and location of it. Most approaches trying to mitigate cruising are about adjusting the prices of curb space to manage demand. In this paper the authors simulate a system of in-advance online parking space reservations on the street as a means of reducing congestion derived from cruising. A reservation will eliminate the uncertainties that cause the need for cruising and can improve the efficiency of the private car. Targeting efficiency is a new-paradigm type of parking management, opposed to increasing supply and the consequent fueling of the cycle of automobile dependency. The authors present a model of parking and cruising behavior derived from observed data, and describes a stochastic discrete-event queuing micro-simulator developed to compare scenarios of variable allocations of parking spaces for reservations. The results obtained illustrate a consistent improvement in congestion levels in scenarios with reservations of up to 3% of the value without reservations. Scenarios of allocation of parking spaces also display an expected loss in turnover from a certain point, as well as a slight increase in cruising times for the users without reservations. These can however be mitigated by the designed generated revenues from the reservation service, and also by the overall congestion reduction.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE50 Transportation Demand Management.

01470560

13-3718

English

17p

2013

Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting

Digital/other

References; Tables

On street parking; Parking demand; Reservations; Traffic simulation; Travel demand management

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2013 Paper #13-3718

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Feb 5 2013 12:44PM