BROADCAST PARKING INFORMATION: BEHAVIORAL IMPACTS AND DESIGN REQUIREMENTS

For the past 2 years Nottinghamshire County Council, in collaboration with local radio stations, has been running an experimental broadcast parking information service during the Christmas period that provides drivers with up-to-the-minute information on occupancy, queues, and parking alternatives. The results of a study designed to investigate the impact of the service on motorists' travel and parking behavior are presented. The study involved a mail-back survey distributed to drivers at city center parking lots, on-street parking areas, and peripheral park-and-ride sites. The results of the study indicate that awareness of the service is high but that its impact on parking behavior is more limited. Although substantial use is made of the service by drivers en route to the city center, there is little evidence that this mode of use results in any significant impact on parking behavior or experienced search and queueing time. By contrast, the minority of drivers who use the broadcast service at the pretrip stage on average enjoy significantly reduced search and queueing time and are more likely to divert to park and ride. Drivers' tolerance of searching and queueing and the nature of their knowledge of parking alternatives are important factors conditioning the use and impact of the broadcast service.

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  • This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1403, Driver Performance: Measurement and Modeling, IVHS, Information Systems, and Simulation. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved
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• Authors:
  • Polak, John
  • Vythoulkas, Petros
  • Chatfield, Ian
• Publication Date: 1993

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 36-44
• Monograph Title: DRIVER PERFORMANCE: MEASUREMENT AND MODELING, IVHS, INFORMATION SYSTEMS, AND SIMULATION
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1403
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Broadcasting; Data collection; Drivers; Holidays; Impact studies; Modal diversion; Questionnaires; Surveys; Travel behavior
• Old TRIS Terms: Parking information
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00639986
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Dec 20 1993 12:00AM