Improving urban parking through better information: the potential impact of vehicle-to-vehicle communication

1 Introduction ....................................................................................................... 1 2 Bottom-up information provision .................................................................... 2 3 Simulation description ...................................................................................... 5 4 Results ................................................................................................................ 6 4.1 Vehicle-to-vehicle information provision ........................................................... 7 4.1.1 Performance of V2V-cars ................................................................................... 7 4.1.2 Performance of overall system ............................................................................ 7 4.2 Sensor-based information provision ................................................................... 8 4.2.1 Performance of V2V-cars ................................................................................... 8 4.2.2 Performance of overall system ............................................................................ 9 4.3 A closer look at search time .............................................................................. 10 5 Conclusions & future work ............................................................................ 10 References .................................................................................................................... 11