TY - JOUR
T1 - A Novel Methodology to Estimate Cruising for Parking and Related External Costs
AU - van Ommeren, Jos
AU - McIvor, Michael
AU - Mulalic, Ismir
AU - Inci, Eren
PY - 2021/3
Y1 - 2021/3
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Marginal external cost of parking
KW - Parking externalities
KW - Parking fee
KW - Parking supply
KW - Parking time limits
KW - Marginal external cost of parking
KW - Parking externalities
KW - Parking fee
KW - Parking supply
KW - Parking time limits
U2 - 10.1016/j.trb.2020.12.005
DO - 10.1016/j.trb.2020.12.005
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85100655995
SN - 0191-2615
VL - 145
SP - 247
EP - 269
JO - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
JF - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
ER -