Testing Irrationality in Metered Parking Payment Compliance

Parking payment non-compliance behavior is the central problem addressed in this proposed research. Parking payment decisions are complex, poorly understood, and understudied. Most existing research on parking payment non-compliance either assumes that the driver is rational and that payment non-compliance is intentional (Cullinane, 1993), or it treats the driver as a black box, examining the phenomenon with no interest in understanding the behavior (Yang and Qian, 2017). This proposed research studies parking payment non-compliance behavior using data from the city of Denver and theories of behavioral economics. The goal is to understand the behavioral patterns of payment non-compliance, and to test whether such behaviors are motivated by the driver's rational analysis of cost and benefit.

• Record URL:
  https://www.mountain-plains.org/research/details.php?id=452
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Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $120000
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3551747108

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

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

  Kline, Robin

• Performing Organizations:

  University of Colorado Denver

  Denver, Colorado  United States  80204
• Principal Investigators:

  McAndrews, Carolyn

  Li, Meng

• Start Date: 20171211
• Expected Completion Date: 20220731
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• Source Data: MPC-555

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Compliance; Decision making; Drivers; Parking; Parking meters; Payment
• Geographic Terms: Denver (Colorado)
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01656113
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Mountain-Plains Consortium
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551747108
• Files: UTC, RiP
• Created Date: Jan 2 2018 1:54PM