Title
To Observe Or Not To Observe: Queuing Game Framework For Urban Parking
Abstract
We model parking in urban centers as a set of parallel queues and overlay a game theoretic structure. We model arriving drivers as utility maximizers and consider two games: one in which it is free to observe the queue length and one in which it is not. Not only do we compare the Nash induced welfare to the socially optimal welfare, confirming the usual result that Nash is worse for society, we also show that by other performance metrics more commonly used in transportation-such as occupancy and time spent circling-the Nash solution is suboptimal. We find that gains to welfare do not require everyone to observe. Through simulation, we explore a more complex scenario where drivers decide based the queueing game whether or not to enter a collection of queues over a network. Our simulated models use parameters informed by real-world data collected by the Seattle Department of Transportation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/CDC.2016.7799079
2016 IEEE 55TH CONFERENCE ON DECISION AND CONTROL (CDC)
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Conference
abs/1603.08995
0743-1546
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.54
3
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lillian J. Ratliff18723.32
Chase P. Dowling2154.35
Eric Mazumdar3137.50
Baosen Zhang424141.10