A PARKING STUDY THROUGH THE USE OF ORIGIN-DESTINATION DATA

THE TRADITIONAL PARKING STUDY HAS BECOME SO COSTLY AS TO BE PROHIBITIVE. A NEW PROCEDURE HAS BEEN DEVELOPED USING ORIGIN-DESTINATION DATA TO ESTIMATE DOWNTOWN PARKING CHARACTERISTICS. TOGETHER WITH INVENTORIES OF SUPPLY, DEMAND DATA CAN BE USED TO CALIBRATE A MODEL THAT SIMULATES THE DISTRIBUTION OF PARKERS TO AVAILABLE PARKING FACILITIES. THIS MODEL CAN BE USED TO ANALYZE AND EVALUATE ALTERNATE PARKING SYSTEMS FOR BOTH THE EXISTING PARKING DEMAND AND THE FORECAST PARKING DEMAND. THE ALTERNATE PARKING SYSTEMS CAN BE EXPRESSED IN TERMS OF NUMBER OF SPACES, LOCATION OF FACILITIES WITH RESPECT TO TRIP GENERATORS, RATE STRUCTURE, TIME RESTRICTIONS, OR ADDITIONAL DELAYS SUCH AS QUEUING TIME OR FEEDER BUS TIME IF FRINGE FACILITIES ARE BEING CONSIDERED. THIS MODEL CAN BE USED INDEPENDENTLY TO TEST ALTERNATE PARKING PROGRAMS OR AS A TOOL WITHIN THE URBAN TRANSPORTATION PLANNING PROCESS TO ANALYZE AND EVALUATE ALTERNATE TRANSIT, PARKING, AND HIGHWAY SYSTEMS. IN THE FIRST APPLICATION, PARKING DEMAND IS CONSIDERED AS A CONSTANT, REGARDLESS OF THE LEVEL OF PARKING SERVICE PROVIDED; IN THE SECOND APPLICATION, PARKING DEMANDS WILL FLUCTUATE AS TRANSIT AND HIGHWAY USE CHANGES WITH DIFFERENT LEVELS OF PARKING SERVICE. /AUTHOR/

• Record URL:
  • http://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/hrr/1970/317/317-002.pdf
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Paper sponsored by Committee on Parking and presented at the 49th Annual Meeting. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
• Authors:
  • Schulman, Lawrence L
  • Stout, Robert W
• Publication Date: 1970

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 14-29
• Monograph Title: Parking analyses
• Serial:
  • Highway Research Record
  • Issue Number: 317
  • Publisher: Highway Research Board

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Forecasting; Mathematical models; Origin and destination; Parking; Parking demand; Studies; Transportation; Transportation planning; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Transportation models
• Old TRIS Terms: Parking studies
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00225854
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Nov 9 1970 12:00AM