a standard parking garage, which has a
flat $2 per hour fee which can be validated by the two “anchor” stores, making it essentially free for most patrons
as well. While this is light and exploratory, there is serious work going on with
parking problems [1].
In the sterile world of figures and
mathematics, this sounds like a reasonable way to run a parking lot, and patrons who miss the upstairs free parking
will simply renege and take the lower
level free parking. In reality, people
“mob” the upstairs portion in search of
“free parking.” My assistant and I had
observed this behavior over a number of weeks, and we were interested
in learning about the time parked cars
spent in the lot, with an eye for simple
metrics such as expected wait time for a
parking spot or the expected number of
cars “trolling” for a slot. This interest became action (the key for any analysis),
and we chose 6:30 p.m. on a Thursday
evening – a time that we knew the parking lot would be full – to collect data
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