3 papers
physics.soc-ph2025
Model-Based Assessment of__the__Cruising Traffic and Environmental Impact of__Parking Restrictions
Alexandre Nicolas, Nilankur Dutta, Léo Bulckaen
In many large metropolitan areas, cars cruising for parking significantly contribute to congestion and pollution. At the same time, parking restrictions are contemplated to encoura…
physics.soc-ph2023
Parking search in urban street networks: Taming down the complexity of the search-time problem via a coarse-graining approach
Léo Bulckaen, Nilankur Dutta, Alexandre Nicolas
The parking issue is central in transport policies and drivers' concerns, but the determinants of the parking search time remain relatively poorly understood. The question is often…
cond-mat.stat-mech2022
Parking search in the physical world: Calculating the search time by leveraging physical and graph theoretical methods
Nilankur Dutta, Thibault Charlottin, Alexandre Nicolas
Parking plays a central role in transport policies and has wide-ranging consequences: While the average time spent searching for parking exceeds dozens of hours per driver every ye…