This paper looks at parking policy in dense urban districts (“downtown”), where spatial competition between parking garages is a key feature. The paper has four parts. The first looks at the “parking garage operator’s problem”. The second derives the equilibrium in the parking garage market when there is no on-street parking, compares the equilibrium to the social optimum, and examines parking ...

T he purpose of this article is to provide additional interim guidance to users of the second editio-n of ITE’s Parking Generation. 1 The report was first published in 1985 as a means for assembling national data on parking demand. The second edition was published in 1987. The ITE Parking Generation Committee (Technical Council Committee 6F-44) is working on the third edition, which is currentl...

In smart parking environments, how to choose suitable parking facilities with various attributes to satisfy certain criteria is an important decision issue. Based on the multiple attributes decision making (MADM) theory, this study proposed a smart parking guidance algorithm by considering three representative decision factors (i.e., walk duration, parking fee, and the number of vacant parking ...

There has recently been considerable interest in cruising for curbside parking as a major contributor to traffic congestion in the downtown areas of major cities. The density of cars cruising for parking in the downtown area is related to the rate at which cars in transit in the downtown area start cruising for parking and the expected search time of a car that starts cruising for parking. This...

The management of public parking spaces is a sophisticated task for the municipality offices in every city. Currently, there is not a system in place in the city of Zurich where the complete parking process is implemented. The affected departments use multiple tools for certain specific tasks. In addition, many jobs such as adding, removing or suspending parking spaces are performed manually wi...

Parking is a key component of urban transportation managements and has become a severe problem at many tourist attractions during holidays in China. This paper presents a novel scheme to relieve the holiday parking pressure. Based on the perspectives of the activity-based travel characteristics, we propose an effort to develop parking alternatives by utilizing existing traffic facilities. A con...

This paper builds a bridge between research on regulatory focus in motivation and classification learning. It tests the hypothesis that a fit between the situational regulatory focus and the reward structure of the task leads to greater cognitive flexibility than a mismatch between situational focus and the reward structure and that the fit between the regulatory focusinduced processing charact...

Article history: Received 17 March 2014 Received in revised form 5 May 2014 Accepted 8 May 2014 Available online xxxx In this invited response, we first note that contrary to the claims of Haier and colleagues, they were not part of the review process for the article Fractionating Human Intelligence. We then expand on the rationale underlying the primary objective of the study, to determine whe...

Decisions are often based on the results of quantitative analysis. To gain confidence in these results, some indication of their quality is needed. Measurement uncertainty, as proposed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), is a way to express this quality. Most measurement techniques compare references and therefore need to be calibrated. Usually least squares methods ign...

This paper proposes vacant parking slot detection and tracking system that fuses the sensors of automatic parking system. The proposed system consists of few stages: parking slot detection, and parking slot marking tracking. The parking slot marking detection stage recognizes various types of parking slot markings using IR Sensors. The parking slot occupancy classification stage identifies vaca...