Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/84164 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 4416
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
For many years, Donald Shoup has been advocating cashing out free and underpriced curbside parking. How should this be implemented in practice, taking into account the stochasticity of curbside parking vacancies? Shoup has proposed setting neighborhood/period of the day-specific meter rates such that a common target (average) curbside parking occupancy rate is achieved. Taking as given how the average occupancy rate affects expected cruising-for-parking time and expected walking time (between parking space and destination), this paper investigates the optimal (surplus-maximizing) target curbside parking occupancy rate. The principal result is that the rate should be higher, the higher is the level of demand.
Subjects: 
parking
curbside parking
occupancy rate
vacancy rate
pricing
JEL: 
D60
H20
J60
N70
R40
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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