Cruising for parking around a circle

Richard Arnott and Parker Williams

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2017, vol. 104, issue C, 357-375

Abstract: Several recent papers have used the approximation that the number of curbside parking spaces searched before finding a vacant space equals the reciprocal of the expected curbside vacancy rate. The implied expected cruising-for-parking times are significantly lower than those that have been obtained through observation and simulation. Through computer simulation of cars cruising for parking around a circle in stochastic steady state, this paper shows that the approximation leads to underestimation of expected cruising-for-parking time and, at high occupancy rates, considerable underestimation. The paper also identifies several “effects” that contribute to the approximation being an increasingly poor one as the occupancy rate increases.

Keywords: Curbside parking; Stochastic simulation; Poisson process; Steady state (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2017.07.009

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