Study On Parking Duration Length Choice Model In Big City's Business District

Parking is a big question which puzzles many big cities. In order to slove it, lots of methods have been put forward and implemented. These methods can be divided into three kinds. The first one is to increase the providing of parking facilities, the scond one is traffic damand management and the last one is to improve the efficiency of parking facilities. At present, it's too early to implement traffic damand management due to our countries status, but building abundant parking facilities needs lots of money and can't slove the problem quickly, while improve the efficiency of parking facilities is a quick and effective method.In the past study,people have study the disproportion of space in the useage of parking lots,in my study I have study the reason of low velocity and the factors which have effect the velocity.This paper firstly summarizes the studies about parking behavior at home and abroad, analyzes the basic elements influencing parking bahavior, and introduces the method and the conclusions of a parking behavior survery conducted at Xidan area. After compairing the characters of logit model and probit model, this paper chooses logit model as the parking choice model. Then, this paper sets up two parking duration choice model based on weekday's data and weekend's data respectively, and analyzes and tests the models.