Managing morning commute traffic with parking

Qian, Sean; Xiao, Feng; Zhang, H.M.

doi:10.1016/j.trb.2012.01.011

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“…Cars start entering the city streets, tra¢ c density builds, and an increasing number of curbside parking spaces become occupied. 18 With unsaturated parking, the trajectory lies between the _ R = 0 and _ T = 0 loci. In due course, parking becomes saturated and cruising for parking commences.…”

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Downtown curbside parking capacity

Arnott

İnci

Rowse

2015

Journal of Urban Economics

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In downtown areas, what proportion of curbside should be allocated to parking? In contrast to most previous work on the economics of parking, this paper focuses on optimal curbside parking capacity in both …rst-best (where pricing is e¢ cient) and second-best (where pricing is ine¢ cient) environments. It …rst considers the situation where there is only curbside parking, and then the situation where there may be both curbside and private garage parking. For each situation, it examines the short run in which curbside parking capacity is …xed and the long run in which it is a policy variable.

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“…De…ne the long-run second-best best optimum, conditional on demand in-tensity, to be whichever of the solutions to (17), (18), and (19) yields the highest social surplus.…”

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Downtown curbside parking capacity

Arnott

İnci

Rowse

2015

Journal of Urban Economics

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“…Zhang et al (2008) further extended Arnott et al (1991) by deriving the daily commuting pattern that combines both the morning and evening commutes. More recently, attentions have been paid to how parking capacity allocations, parking fees, parking permits and parking reservations can be designed to improve traffic efficiency in a dynamic network with one roadway bottleneck Qian et al 2011Qian et al , 2012Fosgerau and de Palma, 2013;Yang et al 2013;Liu et al 2014a,b ). However, in most of these studies, the cruising for parking is not modeled.…”

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Modeling the morning commute for urban networks with cruising-for-parking: An MFD approach

Liu¹,

Geroliminis²

2016

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

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a b s t r a c tThis study focuses on the morning commute problem with explicit consideration of cruising-for-parking, and its adverse impacts on traffic congestion. The cruising-for-parking is modeled through a dynamic aggregated traffic model for networks: the Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram (MFD). Firstly, we formulate the commuting equilibrium in a congested downtown network where travelers have to cruise for curbside parking spaces. The cruising-for-parking would yield longer trip distance and smaller network outflow, and thus can induce severe congestion and lengthen the morning peak. We then develop a dynamic model of pricing for the network to reduce total social cost, which includes cruising time cost, moving time cost (moving or in-transit time, which is the duration during which vehicles move close to the destination but do not cruise for parking yet), and schedule delay cost. We show that under specific assumptions, at the system optimum, the downtown network should be operating at the maximum production of its MFD. However, the cruising effect is not fully eliminated. We also show that the time-dependent toll to support the system optimum has a different shape than the classical fine toll in Vickrey's bottleneck model. In the end, analytical results are illustrated and verified with numerical experiments.

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“…In contrast, in the present setting where parking is located at the destination and with temporal but not spatial variation in the parking fee, only a smaller share of the efficiency gain from the optimal road toll can be realized by a parking fee. Qian et al (2012) present an analysis similar to Arnott et al (1991) but with parking capacity provided in two parking lots, where the capacity and parking fee may be regulated. Arnott and Rowse (2009) focus on different aspects of parking.…”

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The dynamics of urban traffic congestion and the price of parking

Fosgerau

Palma

2013

Journal of Public Economics

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We consider commuting in a congested urban area. While an efficient time-varying toll may eliminate queuing, a toll may not be politically feasible. We study the benefit of a substitute: a parking fee at the workplace. An optimal time-varying parking fee is charged at zero rate when there is queuing and eliminates queuing when the rate is non-zero. Within certain limits, inability to charge some drivers for parking does not reduce the potential welfare gain. Drivers who cannot be charged travel when there is queuing. In some cases, interaction between morning and evening commutes can be exploited to remove queueing completely.

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Managing morning commute traffic with parking

Cited by 124 publications

References 10 publications

Downtown curbside parking capacity

Downtown curbside parking capacity

Modeling the morning commute for urban networks with cruising-for-parking: An MFD approach

The dynamics of urban traffic congestion and the price of parking

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