Private parking slot sharing

Su Xiu Xu, Meng Cheng, Xiang T.R. Kong, Hai Yang and George Q. Huang

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2016, vol. 93, issue PA, 596-617

Abstract: This paper addresses the private parking slot sharing problem during regular working hours in a big city. Our results extend the existing market design theory so that money flow is allowed in the matching mechanisms. We consider two cases of money flow: (i) one agent who fails to exchange his parking slot can join the leasing mechanism as a lessor; and (ii) one agent who fails in parking slot exchange can always “transfer” (rent) his parking slots to the platform. Each agent is self-interested. We propose the (price-compatible) top trading cycles and deals (TTCD) mechanism for case (i) and the price-compatible top trading cycles and chains (PC-TTCC) mechanism for case (ii). Both mechanisms are effective in terms of the compatibility with money flow, agents’ welfare, and strategy-proofness. Our experimental results further show that the proposed mechanisms would result in remarkable social welfare, and (ex post) budget balance for the platform in a big city with large population. In some realistic settings, our proposed mechanisms can almost realize cost saving of 60% and make more than 50% of agents strictly better off. There is no private parking slot sharing in the benchmark case. Overall, this paper opens the door to the solutions of a host of price-compatible matching problems.

Keywords: Private parking slot sharing; Market design; Top trading cycles; Price compatibility; Strategy-proofness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2016.08.017

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