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access icon free Optimal storage and loading zones within surface parking facilities for privately owned automated vehicles

  • Author(s): You Kong 1, 2 ; Scott Le Vine 1, 3 ; Xiaobo Liu 1
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  • Source: Volume 13, Issue 12, December 2019, p. 1754 – 1760
    DOI:  10.1049/iet-its.2019.0099 , Print ISSN 1751-956X, Online ISSN 1751-9578
© The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Received 21/02/2019, Accepted 06/08/2019, Revised 03/08/2019, Published 07/08/2019

There is much speculation about the prospective impacts of automated vehicles (AVs) on parking supply and behaviour, however the literature contains little quantitative evidence. In this study, we develop a mixed-integer non-linear optimisation (MINLP) model of revenue maximisation to design parking facility layouts for privately-owned automated cars that include separate vehicle-storage and drop-off/pick-up zones (DOPU, or alternatively termed “PUDO zones”). The control variable is the allocation of space between these two competing uses. The model balances between revenue derived from parking (including revenue during activity time) and costs associated with the range of AVs’ parking and loading/unloading activities. Via numerical analysis of an archetypal shopping centre's parking facility, the authors demonstrate that the model responds intuitively to the stimulus of systematically varying the input parameters. This study is intended to provide an incremental advance to support researchers and practitioners tasked with quantifying the impacts of AVs on the parking system.

Inspec keywords: design engineering; mobile robots; integer programming; nonlinear programming; road traffic control

Other keywords: archetypal shopping centre; separate vehicle-storage; parking facility layout design; privately owned automated vehicles; mixed-integer nonlinear optimisation; control variable; surface parking facilities; parking supply; revenue maximisation; optimal loading zones; optimal storage zones; activity time; AV parking

Subjects: Optimisation; Robot and manipulator mechanics

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