A Parking Model—The Effect of Supply on Demand

Douglas, Richard W.

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“…Until a decade ago, the economics literature looked at parking almost exclusively (but see Douglas (1975)) as a …xed fee added on at the end of an auto trip. By increasing the full price of an auto trip, parking fees a¤ect travel demand and modal choice.…”

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An integrated model of downtown parking and traffic congestion

Arnott

İnci

2006

Journal of Urban Economics

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This paper presents a downtown parking model that integrates tra¢ c congestion and saturated on-street parking. We assume that the stock of cars cruising for parking adds to tra¢ c congestion. Two major results come out from the model, one of which is robust. The robust one is that, whether or not the amount of on-street parking is optimal, it is e¢ cient to raise the on-street parking fee to the point where cruising for parking is eliminated without parking becoming unsaturated. The other is that, if the parking fee is …xed at a sub-optimal level, it is second-best optimal to increase the amount of curbside allocated to parking until cruising for parking is eliminated without parking becoming unsaturated.

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An integrated model of downtown parking and traffic congestion

Arnott

İnci

2006

Journal of Urban Economics

302

133

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“…Then increasing the curbside parking fee may generate an efficiency gain through reduction of cruising and the ensuing congestion and the efficiency gain may be large relative to the parking fee revenue. Other papers related to cruising include Douglas (1975), Arnott and Rowse (1999), Anderson and de Palma (2004), Arnott and Inci (2006), and Anderson and de Palma (2007). Van Ommeren et al (2011) estimates the cost of cruising for the residents of Amsterdam.…”

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The dynamics of urban traffic congestion and the price of parking

Fosgerau

Palma

2013

Journal of Public Economics

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We consider commuting in a congested urban area. While an efficient time-varying toll may eliminate queuing, a toll may not be politically feasible. We study the benefit of a substitute: a parking fee at the workplace. An optimal time-varying parking fee is charged at zero rate when there is queuing and eliminates queuing when the rate is non-zero. Within certain limits, inability to charge some drivers for parking does not reduce the potential welfare gain. Drivers who cannot be charged travel when there is queuing. In some cases, interaction between morning and evening commutes can be exploited to remove queueing completely.

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“…Canonical models for parking tend to assume a degree of homogeneity [13], [4], [14], but this limitation was largely a function of the availability of data on curbside parking occupancy: namely the proportion of spaces in use at any given time. This data has traditionally be collected by manually [7], [15], but the introduction of digital parking meters has provided researchers with an opportunity to increase the spatial and temporal resolution of CBD parking models.…”

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Modeling Curbside Parking as a Network of Finite Capacity Queues

Dowling

Ratliff

Zhang

2020

IEEE Trans. Intell. Transport. Syst.

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With the increasing availability of transaction data collected by digital parking meters, paid curbside parking can be advantageously modeled as a network of interdependent queues. In this article we introduce methods for analyzing a special class of networks of finite capacity queues, where tasks arrive from an exogenous source, join the queue if there is an available server or are rejected and move to another queue in search of service according to the network topology. Such networks can be useful for modeling curbside parking since queues in the network perform the same function and drivers searching for an available server are under combinatorial constraints and jockeying is not instantaneous. Further, we provide a motivating example for such networks of finite capacity queues in the context of drivers searching for parking in the neighborhood of Belltown in Seattle, Washington, USA. Lastly, since the stationary distribution of such networks used to model parking are difficult to satisfactorily characterize, we also introduce a simulation tool for the purpose of testing the assumptions made to estimate interesting performance metrics. Our results suggest that a Markovian relaxation of the problem when solving for the mean rate metrics is comparable to deterministic service times reflective of a driver's tendency to park for the maximum allowable time.

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A Parking Model—The Effect of Supply on Demand

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An integrated model of downtown parking and traffic congestion

An integrated model of downtown parking and traffic congestion

The dynamics of urban traffic congestion and the price of parking

Modeling Curbside Parking as a Network of Finite Capacity Queues

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