Is the curb 80% full or 20% empty? Assessing the impacts of San Francisco's parking pricing experiment

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 63, Issue , 2014, Pages 76-92

  Millard Ball, Adam ^a   Weinberger, Rachel R ^b   Hampshire, Robert C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cruising; Parking management; Parking pricing; Queuing theory; SFpark parking search

Indexed keywords

QUEUEING THEORY;

CRUISING; DRIVER EXPERIENCE; ON-STREET PARKING; PARKING MANAGEMENT; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; PRICING EXPERIMENTS; QUEUING THEORY; SFPARK PARKING SEARCH;

COSTS;

HEURISTICS; PARKING; ROAD PRICING; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION POLICY; URBAN TRANSPORT;

CALIFORNIA; SAN FRANCISCO [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84897432720     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2014.02.016     Document Type: Article

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