1、1 中文 6400 字 ,4000 单词， 2.1 万英文字符 出处： Sykes P, Falco J D, Bradley R, et al. Planning urban car park provision using microsimulationJ. Traffic Engineering & Control, 2010, （ 51） .103-107 Planning urban car park provision using Microsimulation Pete Sykes, Falco De Jong Richard Bradley, Gerard Jennings,
2、Greig McDonnell Abstract In three different locations around the world, city planners have sought to investigate the effects on the road network of car park planning policy and accessibility. All have looked for methods to minimise urban congestion caused by drivers searching for a car park space. A
3、ll have used an SParamics microsimulation model to test the design options. This paper describes how they went about it and what they achieved. INTRODUCTION The provision of available car parking is one of the most contentious issues for city drivers. Car park spaces can be hard to find and expensiv
4、e to use. There may be queues to get into the most convenient car parks which require drivers to move on to alternative car parks. Some city centre traders regard the lack of suitable car parking as a significant reason for shoppers to prefer out of town shopping centres. In New Haven Connecticut, G
5、ov. Rowland at a ceremony celebrating the renovation of the citys largest car park in 2002 declared: if you dont have parking, nothing else works.1 Car park hunting, the circulation of drivers looking for a parking space, can be a major contribution to city centre congestion. The proportion of cars
6、searching for a space was found to be 26% when surveyed in Manhattan in 2006, while in Brooklyn it was 45%. The situation is not new. In 1927, a similar survey in Detroit found the figures to be 19% and 34% in separate locations 2. This long standing problem may at last be assisted by technology. While iPhone users can now notify each other as spaces become available 3, traffic planners can now take advantage of recent developments in traffic modelling, which demonstrate that car pa
