Parking Management based on the Analysis of Parking Location Choice Behavior

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Today, most of urban areas in developed countries have been confronted with parking problems, that is, for instance curbsides of central business districts in large cities are often occupied by illegally parked vehicles which become obstacles to the safe and smooth flow of traffic and have a negative effect on commercial activities. Therefore, to obtain a better use of the available parking space is one of the most important objectives of transportation system management.This research aims to develop a basic consideration related to a useful parking strategy in congested central business districts. The major conclusions in this research are as follows :1)The effect of the provision of parking information and execution of enforcement against illegally parked vehicles has been made clear, depending on several investigations. The most important result is that if they are carried out at the same time, the effect of multiplication of the two measures becomes very large.2)Depending on the analysis of parking behavior, a nested losit model has been developed, in which parking fee, waiting time, distance to a destination, and frequency of illegal parking enforcement are the dominant variable. This model can be used not only the choice between off-street parking spaces, but also the choice among off-street parking spaces and illegal on-street parking spaces.3)Using the model, the effectiveness of parking management techniques has been evaluated.