@article{ref1,
title="Cruising for parking around a circle",
journal="Transportation research part B: methodological",
year="2017",
author="Arnott, Richard and Williams, Parker",
volume="104",
number="",
pages="357-375",
abstract="Several recent papers have used the approximation that the number of curbside parking spaces searched before finding a vacant space equals the reciprocal of the expected curbside vacancy rate. The implied expected cruising-for-parking times are significantly lower than those that have been obtained through observation and simulation. Through computer simulation of cars cruising for parking around a circle in stochastic steady state, this paper shows that the approximation leads to underestimation of expected cruising-for-parking time and, at high occupancy rates, considerable underestimation. The paper also identifies several &quot;effects&quot; that contribute to the approximation being an increasingly poor one as the occupancy rate increases.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0191-2615",
doi="10.1016/j.trb.2017.07.009",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2017.07.009"
}