Guidance effect of a parking guidance system in a middle-wide range area

In this paper, the authors describe the guidance effects of a parking guidance system by traffic simulator. First, to compare the guidance effects of the systems, the authors constructed a cell automaton simulator. To purely evaluate the guidance effect by the simulator, the authors measured the total time for a round trip between origin and destination, without other traffic passing. A driver’s parking choice is based on Katori et al.’s “Comparison between automatic distribution and driver’s feature in parking guidance system”, 2006. If a driver has no knowledge concerning parking availability, in other words, if there is no parking guidance system, the driver chooses a nearest parking spot from his own destination. If drivers are provided with information by information boards, they consider the parking situation (full congested or empty), and they choose a parking location. The parking situation information is renewed at each intersection where the boards stand. The authors define the “driver’s parking choice” as a combination of information about the parking situation, destination and car park location. The authors compare the guidance effects under these circumstances. The area under consideration is east Tokyo to west Chiba along the Edogawa River, and this area includes some living zones. The parking lots in this area are managed by the parking situation information system, and the authors show the quantitative evaluation values of the guidance effect.

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  https://doi.org/10.2495/UT130191
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• Authors:
  • Katori, T
  • Tatematsu, K
  • Izumi, T
• Conference:
  • 19th International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment
  • Location: Kos , Greece
  • Date: 2013-5-29 to 2013-5-31
• Publication Date: 2013

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 11p
• Monograph Title: Urban Transport XIX
• Serial:
  • WIT Transactions on the Built Environment
  • Issue Number: 130
  • Publisher: Wessex Institute of Technology
  • ISSN: 1743-3509
  • Serial URL: http://library.witpress.com/pages/listBooks.asp?tID=2

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Decision making; Drivers; Evaluation and assessment; Parking guidance systems; Traffic simulation
• Geographic Terms: Chiba (Japan); Tokyo (Japan)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01494519
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9781845647162
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 26 2013 1:29PM