Analysis on Time Window of Shared Parking in Hospitals Based on Parking Behaviors

Table 1

Time-varied characteristics of parking demand.

	Weekdays	Weekend
Parking occupancy	(a) Parking demand is high during the day with two climaxes: 7:00–11:00 and 13:00–16:00, while in the night parking mainly occurs in 18:00–20:00.; (b) 11:00–13:00 witnesses low parking demand in daytime, and from 20:00 to 6:00 the next day, the need decreases and becomes steady.	Similar to that of weekdays
	In the long run, parking occupancy is relatively stable.
Entrance and exit	(a) Four peaks exist in entrance distribution, 6:00–8:00, 10:00–11:00, 14:00–16:00, and 18:00–20:00.	(a) From the view of entrance, there are peaks but comparatively flat.
	(b) Three peaks exist in exit data, 11:00-12:00, 15:00–17:00, and 20:00–21:00.	(b) Exit peaks appear in 10:00–11:00 and 16:00–17:00.
	(c) From 22:00 to 6:00 the next day the number of vehicles entering and exiting hospitals is small.	(c) In the night it remains in a low level.
Parking duration	80% of the vehicles park less than 3 hours in the hospitals.; The majority of vehicles park within 1.5 hours.