A mechanism design based approach to solving parking slot assignment in the information era

Bo Zou, Nabin Kafle, Ouri Wolfson and Lin, Jie (Jane)

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2015, vol. 81, issue P2, 631-653

Abstract: This paper proposes a mechanism design based approach for public parking slot assignment in an environment empowered by recent advances in parking sensing, infrastructure-to-vehicle, and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications. An important part of the parking slot assignment deals with eliciting truthful private information from drivers while maximizing social welfare. We consider both static and dynamic mechanisms and provide theoretic proofs that, by using coupled slot allocation and payment rules, drivers will be incentivized to participate in the assignment process and truthfully report their private information. The parking manager will benefit by generating non-negative revenue from each assigned driver. Our numerical analysis provides further insights into the implementation of the dynamic mechanisms.

Keywords: Parking slot assignment; Mechanism design; Truth telling; Allocation rule; Payment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2015.05.015

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