A MODEL TO DESCRIBE THE CHOICE OF PARKING PLACES

A study has been made of the factors which determine the choice of parking places of visitors to a city centre. The starting point of the investigation was the results of a traffic survey held in the central area of Haarlem (the Netherlands) in 1972. To describe the choice of parking places, an attempt was made to specify and test a logit chance model. Possible indicators were: walking time, parking charges, occupation rates of different parking alternatives, possible parking-time restriction, and some "accessibility factors" connected with parking alternatives from which a visitor could make a choice. It became obvious that walking time greatly influenced the visitor's choice. Further, except for the group "loading/unloading", some preference for "off-street carparks" and "parking garages" could be seen over other categories of parking places. It was also notable that visitors seemed just as inclined to use "illegal parking" as an ideal parking place on the street. As for the remaining situations, it seemed that the categories related to the purpose of the trip determined which of the factors played an important part. (Author/TRRL)

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• Authors:
  • VAN DER GOOT, D
• Publication Date: 1982-3

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 109-115
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
  • Volume: 16A
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0965-8564
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09658564

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Central business districts; Costs; Decision making; Location; Logits; Mathematical models; Parking; Parking facilities; Parking garages; Parking lots; Pedestrian traffic; Traffic surveys; Travel time; Trip generation; Trip purpose; Urban areas; Walking; Walking distance
• Uncontrolled Terms: Selecting; Selection
• Geographic Terms: Netherlands
• Old TRIS Terms: Parking place
• ITRD Terms: 9139: Accessibility; 224: Cost; 696: Journey purpose; 9061: Location; 6473: Mathematical model; 8078: Netherlands; 955: Parking; 975: Parking place (one veh only); 9072: Selection; 311: Town centre; 676: Traffic survey; 313: Urban area; 758: Walking
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Terminals and Facilities; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00362274
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 30 1982 12:00AM