Parking Search-Caused Congestion: Where’s All the Fuss?

This paper presents a method for determining parking search behavior using Global Positioning System (GPS) traces. The research takes advantage of a GPS based household travel survey, an extensive dataset of GPS with video, and a commercially purchased set of trip segments. Strategies for data cleaning, matching traces to digitized networks, assessing the probability that a trace is of good quality, and strategies for determining whether or not a trip involves excess parking search are described. The authors define and operationalize several definitions of cruising. Preliminary results show the extent of cruising in San Francisco, CA –between 5% and 6% citywide, and Ann Arbor, Michigan –about 3% to 4% in the downtown core.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP000 Public Transportation Group. Alternate title: Parking Search Caused Congestion: Where’s All the Fuss?
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Weinberger, Rachel
  • Millard-Ball, Adam
  • Hampshire, Robert C
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
• Date: 2017

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 17p
• Monograph Title: TRB 96th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Global Positioning System; Parking; Traffic congestion
• Uncontrolled Terms: Parking search behavior
• Geographic Terms: Ann Arbor (Michigan); San Francisco (California)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01631703
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 17-04407
• Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Apr 1 2017 10:45PM