A novel methodology to estimate cruising for parking and related external costs

Jos van Ommeren, Michael McIvor, Ismir Mulalic*, Eren Inci

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Abstract

Practitioners need to know the level of cruising for parking when designing parking policies. Existing methodologies, such as counting, experiments, and survey, are either too expensive or infeasible to be undertaken on a large scale. Inci et al. (2017) introduce an instrumental-variables-based econometric methodology using administrative data to estimate the average level of cruising when parking is close to full occupancy. This paper introduces a novel methodology to estimate the marginal external cruising time (and thus cost) across time and space. Our methodology is easier to implement, requires even less data, estimates the whole distribution rather than the average, and does not require parking to be near full occupancy. It also allows for welfare evaluations of parking fees and supply. To illustrate all these, we apply our methodology to Melbourne, which generates rich policy insights. We also apply it to the same dataset that Inci et al. (2017) use for Istanbul and find consistent results, rendering confidence to both methodologies.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)247-269
Number of pages23
JournalTransportation Research Part B: Methodological
Volume145
Early online date7 Feb 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2021

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank Robin Lindsey (the associate editor) and the three anonymous referees for their valuable comments, and ISPARK for supplying some of the data used in the analysis. The opinions expressed in this article are solely that of the authors and do not reflect the opinions of ISPARK.. Ismir Mulalic gratefully acknowledges financial support from Kraks Fond, Copenhagen ([email protected]). The usual disclaimer applies.

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Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

Funding

The authors would like to thank Robin Lindsey (the associate editor) and the three anonymous referees for their valuable comments, and ISPARK for supplying some of the data used in the analysis. The opinions expressed in this article are solely that of the authors and do not reflect the opinions of ISPARK.. Ismir Mulalic gratefully acknowledges financial support from Kraks Fond, Copenhagen ([email protected]). The usual disclaimer applies.

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Kraks Fond
Robin Lindsey

    Keywords

    • Marginal external cost of parking
    • Parking externalities
    • Parking fee
    • Parking supply
    • Parking time limits

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