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2012Type
- Working Paper
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Abstract
Many cities around the globe are haunted by limited supply of parking and inefficient fee schedules, which often result in additional traffic by people cruising for parking. Pricing parking in an optimal way both from the municipality’s and user’s perspective in order to balance demand and supply is essential to solve this problem. We propose an agent-based approach to iteratively find such an optimal parking price. A major innovation of our parking model is, that it takes taste heterogeneity of drivers into account. By applying the model to a test scenario in the city of Zurich, we successfully demonstrate, that the model provides key figures, which are essential for supporting decision of policy makers. The paper also discusses some future work, e.g. other applications of the model in the area of parking choice and parking search modeling. Show more
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https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-007340031Publication status
publishedJournal / series
Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und RaumplanungVolume
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IVT, ETH ZürichSubject
VERKEHRSMODELLE + VERKEHRSSIMULATION (VERKEHR UND TRANSPORT); FALLSTUDIEN (DOKUMENTENTYP); AUTONOMOUS AGENTS + INTELLIGENT AGENTS (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE); CASE STUDIES (DOCUMENT TYPE); TRANSPORT PLANNING (TRANSPORTATION AND TRAFFIC); AUTONOME AGENTEN + INTELLIGENTE AGENTEN (KÜNSTLICHE INTELLIGENZ); ZÜRICH, STADT (KANTON ZÜRICH); TRANSPORT MODELS + TRAFFIC SIMULATION (TRANSPORTATION AND TRAFFIC); PARKPLÄTZE + PARKIEREN + PARKGEBÜHREN (VERKEHR UND TRANSPORT); ZURICH, CITY (CANTON OF ZURICH); VERKEHRSPLANUNG (VERKEHR UND TRANSPORT); PARKING PLACES + PARKING + PARKING CHARGES (TRANSPORTATION AND TRAFFIC)Organisational unit
02610 - Inst. f. Verkehrspl. u. Transportsyst. / Inst. Transport Planning and Systems03521 - Axhausen, Kay W. (emeritus) / Axhausen, Kay W. (emeritus)
02226 - NSL - Netzwerk Stadt und Landschaft / NSL - Network City and Landscape
02655 - Netzwerk Stadt u. Landschaft ARCH u BAUG / Network City and Landscape ARCH and BAUG
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