Simulative Performance Evaluation of Parking Space Search

Depending on the city, up to a third of all traffic has been claimed to be due to drivers searching for parking spaces and mean parking search durations of up to 12:15 minutes have been measured in some German cities. Still, a scientifically rigorous evaluation of these claims requires a comprehensive simulation scenario, which is currently missing. Based on such a scenario it would then be possible to evaluate the impact of different parking space search strategies on city traffic.

Goals of the thesis

This thesis will design and implement a simulation of parking space search in a German city. Depending on the breadth and scope of the thesis, this simulation may then be used to evaluate the impact of, e.g., doubling the number of vehicles searching for parking spaces, halving the speed of vehicles searching for parking spaces, or removing such traffic altogether. Furthermore, the thesis may investigate the impact of allowing parking space searchers to communicate with each other digitally and how this can be implemented on a large scale in a privacy-preserving manner (e.g., using Flajolet-Martin sketches or HyperLogLog).

Keywords

Simulation, parking space search, privacy

Contact

• C. Sommer