THE LOCATION OF PARKING FACILITIES IN TOWN CENTERS

GIVEN IS A TOWN CENTER WITH AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL DEMAND EXPRESSED BY SPATIALLY RELATED TRIP ENDS DURING A PERIOD OF TIME. ALSO GIVEN IS A SET OF POSSIBLE LOCATIONS FOR OFF- STREET PARKING DEVELOPMENT, AND THE COST OF LAND AT THESE LOCATIONS. THE PROBLEM IS TO DEVELOP A RATIONAL METHOD FOR LOCATING OFF-STREET PARKING FACILITIES THAT WOULD SERVE THE TRAVEL DEMAND. THE MAJOR PROPOSITION OF THIS STUDY IS THAT PARKING POTENTIAL CAN BE DERIVED FROM TRIP DESTINATIONS BY CONSIDERING DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS OF WALKING DISTANCES. AN EQUILIBRIUM LOCATION OF PARKING FACILITIES CAN BE ACHIEVED BY LOCATING THESE IN AREAS WHERE THE PARKING POTENTIAL IS LARGE ENOUGH TO MAKE THE DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICALLY FEASIBLE. THE PARKERS' CHOICE OF PARKING FACILITIES IN RELATION TO THEIR TRIP DESTINATIONS IS VIEWED AS A DISTRIBUTION PROCESS SIMILAR TO TRIP DISTRIBUTION IN WHICH TRIP DESTINATIONS ARE CHOSEN IN RELATION TO TRIP ORIGINS. AN EMPIRICAL STUDY IS PERFORMED ON A DATA SET DESCRIBING THE BEHAVIOR OF THE PARKING SYSTEM IN THE SAN FRANCISCO CBD. BEHAVIORAL VARIABLES THAT CAN INFLUENCE THE PARKING DISTRIBUTION PROCESS ARE ANALYZED IN DETAIL: WALKING DISTANCES AND PARKING DURATIONS FOR DIFFERENT TRIP PURPOSE CATEGORIES. STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES ARE USED IN THE ANALYSIS OF THESE VARIABLES. THE PARKING DISTRIBUTION PROCESS SEEMS TO BE INFLUENCED PREDOMINANTLY BY WALKING DISTANCE; FACILITY SIZE HAS A SMALL EFFECT, AND PARKING COST APPEARS TO HAVE A NEGLIGILBLE EFFECT. PARKING DISTRIBUTION IS DESCRIBED BY MEANS OF MATHEMATICAL DISTRIBUTION MODELS OF THE GRAVITY AND THE POTENTIAL TYPE. THE PARKING POTENTIAL MODEL IS THEN DEVELOPED. THIS MODEL DERIVES PARKING POTENTIAL AT A GIVEN SET OF LOCATIONS FROM TRIP ENDS. THE PARKING POTENTIAL CAN BE USED IN LOCATING PARKING FACILITIES IN AN EQUILIBRIUM MANNER, THAT IS THE LOCATION IS DERIVED FROM AN APPROXIMATION OF THE BEHAVIOR OF PARKERS RATHER THAN FROM THE ASSIGNMENT OF PARKERS TO FACILITIES IN A CERTAIN OPTIMAL WAY. PARKING POTENTIAL CAN HAVE SEVERAL OTHER USES SUCH AS ANALYZING THE FEASIBILITY OF A PARKING DEVELOPMENT IN ANY ONE LOCATION IN AN EXISTING SYSTEM, OR THE ANALYSIS OF ALTERNATIVE PARKING LOCATION PATTERNS. /AUTHOR/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • 150 Pp, 49 FIG, 20 TAB, 45 REF
• Corporate Authors:

  Itte, University of California, Berkeley

  Dissertation Series
  ,   United States 
• Authors:
  • KANAFANI, A K
• Publication Date: 1969-6

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Central business districts; Land use; Location; Mathematical models; Off street parking; Parking; Parking demand; Statistical analysis; Studies; Urban areas
• Old TRIS Terms: Parking studies
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00225770
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 21 1970 12:00AM