Smarter Parking: Using AI to Identify Parking Inefficiencies in Vancouver

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2003.09761v1
• Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 22:34:57 GMT
• Title: Smarter Parking: Using AI to Identify Parking Inefficiencies in Vancouver
• Authors: Devon Graham, Satish Kumar Sarraf, Taylor Lundy, Ali MohammadMehr, Sara Uppal, Tae Yoon Lee, Hedayat Zarkoob, Scott Duke Kominers, Kevin Leyton-Brown
• Abstract summary: On-street parking is convenient, but has many disadvantages. Drivers looking for spots are more distracted than other road users and that people exiting parked cars pose a risk to cyclists. Social costs may not be worth paying when off-street parking lots are nearby and have surplus capacity.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: On-street parking is convenient, but has many disadvantages: on-street spots come at the expense of other road uses such as traffic lanes, transit lanes, bike lanes, or parklets; drivers looking for parking contribute substantially to traffic congestion and hence to greenhouse gas emissions; safety is reduced both due to the fact that drivers looking for spots are more distracted than other road users and that people exiting parked cars pose a risk to cyclists. These social costs may not be worth paying when off-street parking lots are nearby and have surplus capacity. To see where this might be true in downtown Vancouver, we used artificial intelligence techniques to estimate the amount of time it would take drivers to both park on and off street for destinations throughout the city. For on-street parking, we developed (1) a deep-learning model of block-by-block parking availability based on data from parking meters and audits and (2) a computational simulation of drivers searching for an on-street spot. For off-street parking, we developed a computational simulation of the time it would take drivers drive from their original destination to the nearest city-owned off-street lot and then to queue for a spot based on traffic and lot occupancy data. Finally, in both cases we also computed the time it would take the driver to walk from their parking spot to their original destination. We compared these time estimates for destinations in each block of Vancouver's downtown core and each hour of the day. We found many areas where off street would actually save drivers time over searching the streets for a spot, and many more where the time cost for parking off street was small. The identification of such areas provides an opportunity for the city to repurpose valuable curbside space for community-friendly uses more in line with its transportation goals.

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