This study evaluates individual preferences for five different cycling environments by trading off a better facility with a higher travel time against a less attractive facility at a lower travel time. The tradeoff of travel time to amenities of a particular facility informs our understanding of the value attached to different attributes such as bike-lanes, off-road trails, or side-street parki...

Shared parking is an effective means to alleviate the shortage of spaces in urban central areas during morning peak hours. Meanwhile, walking time cost and fees are two critical factors affecting shared efficiency. Firstly, based on classic bottleneck model, added then user equilibrium solutions obtained considering choices lots: accessorial parking. Next, taking minimum total social queue as m...

Taking time-varying parking demands and supplies into account, this paper develops a dynamic parking choice model to simulate drivers’ searching for parking spaces between parking lots. In this study, each parking lot has one access passage and vehicles can move or wait for entering the park in the access passage. The flow propagation formula in the access passage of parking lots is established...

We propose a novel “smart parking” system for an urban environment. The system assigns and reserves an optimal parking space based on the driver’s cost function that combines proximity to destination and parking cost. Our approach solves a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) problem at each decision point defined in a time-driven sequence. The solution of each MILP is an optimal allocation ...

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...