Virtually all major cities around the world face severe parking problems in their centers. While existing models of parking search and choice behavior do provide insight into the basic dynamics of parking in cities, as well as into the phenomenon of drivers cruising for on-street parking, virtually all models discussed in the literature ignore a number of key factors that influence parking beha...

A key strategy of sustainable transportation, parking pricing can directly contribute to decreased greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution. This paper describes an optimal structure of parking rates in terms of parking locations and time of day. A two-level parking model based on game theory is established using parking survey data collected in Beijing in 2014. The model was estimated based ...

In this paper the role of Plug-In Electric Vehicles’ (PIEVs) parking lot in operating Smart Multi-Energy System (SMES) has been investigated. SMES in this paper has been modeled as a multi-input multi-output model which consists of some storage and energy converters. In the proposed framework, the PIEV’s parking lot behaves like an energy storage with selling energy price less than upstream net...

Finding a vacant parking lot in urban areas is time-consuming and, thus, not satisfying for potential visitors or customers. Efficient car-park routing systems could support drivers to get an optimal parking lot immediately. Current systems detecting vacant parking lots are either very expensive due to hardware requirement for each parking lot or do not provide a detailed occupancy map. In this...

Designing efficient car parking mechanisms that can be potentially integrated into future intelligent transportation systems is of crucial importance. Usually, the related design problems are combinatorial and the worst-case complexity of optimal solution approaches grows exponentially with the problem sizes. Therefore, such optimal approaches are not scalable and practically undesirable. As a ...

Recently, public bicycle sharing system (PBSS) has become one of the most favorite urban transportation systems that can help governments to decrease environmental problems such as pollution and traffic. This paper studies a sharing system that includes two types of stations. The first category contains stations that users can rent or return back bicycles and each bicycle can be rented by any n...