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Title:

Search for Parking: A Dynamic Parking and Route Guidance System for Efficient Parking and Traffic Management

Accession Number:

01628106

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Parking space is a scarce resource in today's cities. Travelers often spend a sizable amount of time searching for available parking spaces. This increases travelers' overall travel cost and causes additional congestion on the road. Without a good parking information guidance system, parking search remains a trial and error process. In this paper, the authors propose a dynamic parking guidance system that integrates parking destination switching and real-time traffic routing. Drivers can switch their parking destinations and routes during their trip to minimize their expected travel costs. The probability that a driver is willing to switch to a new parking garage is taken to be proportional to the cost difference of the current parking destination and the new one. Microspopic simulation using SUMO and OmNet++ is design to test the proposed dynamic parking and route guidance system. The simulation results show that with the proposed joint dynamic parking destination switching and dynamic traffic routing, the average overall cost in the network can be reduced. From the parking resources management point of view, parking garage occupancy can be more balanced across all the parking garages with the proposed system, which indicates that the system can help better coordinate available parking resources and avoid potential over-utilization or under-utilization of parking resources.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE50 Standing Committee on Transportation Demand Management. Alternate title: Search for Parking: Dynamic Parking and Route Guidance System for Efficient Parking and Traffic Management.

Monograph Accession #:

01618707

Report/Paper Numbers:

17-01451

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Chai, Huajun

ORCID 0000-0001-8067-9129

Ma, Rui
Zhang, H Michael

ORCID 0000-0002-4647-3888

Pagination:

16p

Publication Date:

2017

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Subject Areas:

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-01451

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 8 2016 10:28AM