Paper Details

TRB 91st Annual Meeting (January 22-26, 2012)

Event Number:	336
Event Title:	Parking: Getting the Supply Right
Event Date:	Jan 23 2012 1:30PM- 3:15PM
Event Location:	Hilton, Columbia Hall 7
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An Agent-Based Parking Choice Model (12-3362)

Parking choice is an essential part of individual transportation, but many travel demand and traffic simulations do not include parking. This paper proposes a simple parking model and describes how this model has been implemented into an existing agent-based traffic simulation. The parking model provides feedback to the traffic simulation so that the overall simulation can react to spatial differences in parking demand and supply. Simulation results of a scenario of the city of Zurich demonstrate that the model is able to capture key elements of parking, including parking capacity and pricing and is able to provide help for designing parking focused transport policies. The paper also discusses possible future work, such as micro-simulation of parking search for large scale scenarios.

Authors
     Waraich, Rashid A., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
     Axhausen, Kay W., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich