Unbalanced Information Display for Urban Parking Guidance

Providing parking guidance information is bale to optimize driver's travel course. However, providing same information to all drivers might cause congestion because individual driver tends to believe the same information. From the global optimization perspective of view, providing specific information to different drivers, within in different areas, is a better alternative. This paper presents an approach for parking pre-dispatch based on unbalanced information. Un-balanced information approach refers to display different guidance information about the same parking lot on the spatial different Variable Message Sign (VMS) induction screens. This yields drivers in different areas obtain different guidance information about the same parking lot. The pre-dispatch model showed with un-balanced information is found to be advantageous over traditional method. This proposed approach can regulate and control the whole static traffic, direct the drivers to choose the parking lots dispersedly, exert the guidance effect before parking, increase the acceptance probability of the parking spaces and avoid appearing the Brass.

• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Jun, Chen
  • Hao, Liu
  • Wang, Wei
  • Zhiyong, Zhou
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 86th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2007-1-21 to 2007-1-25
• Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 23p
• Monograph Title: TRB 86th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers CD-ROM

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Parking; Parking demand; Parking facilities; Parking guidance systems; Parking regulations; Route choice; Traffic congestion; Urban areas; Urban transportation; Variable message signs
• Uncontrolled Terms: Static traffic assignment (STA)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Terminals and Facilities; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01046153
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 07-1454
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Feb 8 2007 6:04PM