W. Vickrey’s scientific contributions

... On-street parking in urban environments has a spectrum of adverse impacts, including increased traffic from parking space searches and the associated greenhouse gas emissions (Shoup, 2006;Van Ommeren et al., 2012); as such, parking policies form a critical part of efforts to reduce these emissions and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations (Wenz et al., 2020). Implemented parking management policies, like pay parking, have been shown to influence transportation decisions and user behaviour, delivering benefits such as reduced parking search, increased parking turnover, and improved spatial parking distribution among users (Ball, 2013;Vickrey, 1954). ...

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Analysis of user behavior in urban parking under different level of information scenarios provided by smart devices or connected cars