Fighting for Curb Space: Parking, Bike Sharing, Urban Freight Deliveries, Ride-Hailing, and Other Users

In many urban areas, curb space management is a key determinant towards a sustainable transportation system as new trends in passenger and freight transportation demand require access to this limited asset. On the passenger side, in addition to efforts to increase pedestrian and bicycle traffic, and transit ridership, the advent of ride-hailing services have created a surge in curb demand. As a reference, while a few years ago, taxis represented around 1% of the vehicle trips in San Francisco, ride-hailing trips are 15% of the total today. Similarly, e-commerce growth (double-digits yearly) and residential deliveries require more curb access for freight loading/unloading activities. Aggravating the issue, ride-hailing companies are offering goods delivery services, pressuring an already contested and congested system. This project leverages ongoing research on the development of a bike-sharing system, transit access programs through ride-sharing, and freight trip generation, to develop an integrated spatial simulation framework to quantify curb demand. The researchers will estimate aggregate passenger and freight trip generation models to quantify demand for a study area in California. They will integrate activity- and agent-based models to estimate the travel impacts for curb management strategies (e.g., loading/unloading area allocation, time restrictions, passenger vs. goods priorities).

• Record URL:
  https://ncst.ucdavis.edu/project/fighting-for-curb-space/

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $95430
• Contract Numbers:

  Caltrans 65A0686 Task Order 007

• Sponsor Organizations:

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 

  University of California, Davis

  Institute of Transportation Studies
  Davis, CA  United States  95616
• Project Managers:

  Iacobucci, Lauren

• Performing Organizations:

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 
• Principal Investigators:

  Jaller, Miguel

  Rodier, Caroline

  Zhang, Michael

• Start Date: 20190101
• Expected Completion Date: 20200930
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Curb side parking; Curbs; Cyclists; Delivery vehicles; Demand; Demand responsive transportation; Freight and passenger traffic; Loading and unloading; Pedestrians; Public transit; Ridesharing; Simulation; Spatial analysis; Trip generation; Urban areas; Vehicle sharing
• Geographic Terms: California
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01689116
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: National Center for Sustainable Transportation
• Contract Numbers: Caltrans 65A0686 Task Order 007
• Files: UTC, RiP
• Created Date: Dec 19 2018 1:42PM