Research Article

Optimal Parking Slots Reservation and Allocation Problem for Periodic Parking Platforms with Preference Constraints

Table 1

The meaning of notations in this paper.

NotationsMeaning of notations

The daily available time period,
Total number of time intervals
The length of each time interval,
The total number of parking lots provided by the platform
The total number of parking slots provided by the platform
Parking slot distribution status, when parking slot belongs to parking lot , ; otherwise,
The parking slot distribution matrix, , where
Parking supply status, when parking slot is available in time interval , ; otherwise,
The parking supply matrix, , where
The initial total number of the parking requests
The initial index number of the parking requests
The index number of the parking requests in allocation pool
The start time interval of request
The end time interval of request
Parking demand status, if parking request includes time interval , ; otherwise,
The initial parking demand matrix, , where
The final parking demand matrix, , and
The coordinate of parking lot
The coordinate of the destination of request
The coordinate of the destination of request
The walking distance of request after parking
The purchase price of parking lot ,
The selling price of parking lot
The maximum acceptable walking distance of request ,
The maximum acceptable charge rate of request ,
Parking slot allocation result, when request is allocated to parking slot , ; otherwise,
The parking slot allocation matrix, , where
The parking lot allocation matrix,
The parking lot allocation result, when request is allocated to parking lot , ; otherwise,
Rejection penalty factor,
The total operating profit,
The actual operating profit,
The average walking distance of users,
Utilization of parking slots
Acceptance rate