Towards Inferring Welfare Changes from Changes in Curbside Parking Occupancy Rates: A Theoretical Analysis Motivated by SFpark and LA Express Park

The structural model has three components. The first relates welfare to the mean number of curbside parking spaces searched, for multiple cruising-for-parking strategies. Using traffic microsimulation on an idealized network, the second relates the mean number of curbside parking spaces searched to the occupancy rate, again for multiple cruising strategies. The third aims to statistically infer cruising strategy by comparing how local meter rate changes affect global occupancy rates in the data versus from simulations for different cruising strategies.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Sponsor Organizations:

  California Department of Transportation

  Sacramento, CA  United States  95819

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Chursenoff, David

• Performing Organizations:

  Regents of the University of California, Berkeley

  Berkeley, CA  United States 

  University of California Transportation Center (UCTC)

  University of California, Berkeley
  2614 Dwight Way, 2nd Floor
  Berkeley, CA  United States  94720-1782
• Start Date: 20150205
• Expected Completion Date: 20160630
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Curb side parking; Microsimulation; Parking facilities; Welfare economics
• Identifier Terms: SFpark
• Geographic Terms: Los Angeles (California); San Francisco (California)
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01620641
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: California Department of Transportation
• Files: UTC, RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jan 4 2017 10:57AM