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.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2017.01.022
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0968090X17300372
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• 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
• 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;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01633970
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 1 2017 9:37AM