Parking Lot Simulation by Discrete Event Model

Abstract

Due to rapid increase of vehicle use, construction of large scale parking lots is requested especially in urban area for smooth traffic. To improve the efficiency of available land use, some parking lots are designed as a hybrid type combining surface (flat) and tower parking. Design of such a kind of hybrid type parking is quite complex. Simulation methodology is useful to aid in design for such large scale parking lot. In this paper, a simulation method PLISM-1 based on discrete event model is developed with the concept of blocks and networks for solving this problem. By this simulation method, the evaluation of given parking lot plan can be done easily both from static and dynamic viewpoints.