Modelling Car Parking Choice using Microsimulation Traffic Model `

Town center parking management policies involve a mix of controlling factors including parking charges, parking capacity, mobility of pedestrians and disabled motorists, parking durations, parking guidance information systems, and car park accessibility to restrict car dependency. Town center microsimulation models that include parking choice models based on above parameters can provide town planners with an effective tool to evaluate their parking management policies. This paper presents the methodology for developing a car parking choice model based on the above set of parameters, and including it in current microsimulation frameworks. The present work is based on postal questionnaire surveys conducted at car parks in two different areas in the UK. The objective of the surveys was to understand the factors that affect the car parking choice, such as catchments for various car parks, reason for choice of car park, choice for alternate car parking facility, and the impact of free parking space or business paid parking on parking choice.

• Corporate Authors:

  World Conference on Transport Research Society

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• Authors:
  • Chandra, Ashish
  • Ahuja, Sonal
  • Dreher, Frank
• Conference:
  • 11th World Conference on Transport Research
  • Location: Berkeley CA, United States
  • Date: 2007-6-24 to 2007-6-28
• Publication Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 27p
• Monograph Title: 11th World Conference on Transport Research

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Choice models; Information systems; Microsimulation; Mobility; Parking; Parking facilities
• Uncontrolled Terms: Parking management
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01117588
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 30 2008 12:32PM