Study On Parking Behavior In Big City's Shopping Center

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, whose essence is to adjust travelers' parking behavior by some technologies (such as parking guidence and information system,PGI) and parking policies(such as adjust parking fee). So, we must study parking behavior profoundly.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 choice model based on weekday's data and weekend's data respectively, and analyzes and tests the models. At last , this paper introduces the compose,correction technologies and the appraising index of PGI.