Modeling the impact of parking price policy on free-floating carsharing: Case study for Zurich, Switzerland
The research on carsharing has already shown that a non-negligible part of carsharing members give up a vehicle after joining a carsharing program, or avoid a vehicle purchase. This arguably reduces overall parking space needed. This might well be one of the most important impacts of a carsharing program on the transportation system, but also one of the least researched. The rapid diffusion of free-floating carsharing, which for its very nature might have a stronger impact on parking, makes the relationship between carsharing and parking an appealing topic for new research. This work presents a method for the investigation of this relationship using an agent-based simulation and explores the impacts of different parking prices on the demand for free-floating carsharing in the city of Zurich, Switzerland. Three levels of free-floating fleet-size in the city of Zurich coupled with three levels of parking prices were simulated. The obtained results show that free-floating vehicles are able to use parking spaces more efficiently than private vehicles. Moreover, the average parking occupancy tends to be more homogeneous with higher fleet-size of free-floating carsharing and with the increase of parking prices, thus avoiding spatial parking pressure peaks.
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- Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
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Authors:
- Balac, Milos
- Ciari, Francesco
- Axhausen, Kay W
- Publication Date: 2017-4
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
- Pagination: pp 207-225
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Serial:
- Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
- Volume: 77
- Publisher: Elsevier
- ISSN: 0968-090X
- Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0968090X
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Automobiles; Case studies; Parking; Policy; Prices; Vehicle sharing
- Uncontrolled Terms: Free-floating carsharing
- Geographic Terms: Zurich (Switzerland)
- Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting;
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- Accession Number: 01633970
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: May 1 2017 9:37AM