Evaluation of a Road Design Considering On-Street Parking Using the Virtual Reality Traffic Experiment System

This paper describes how a well-ordered on-street parking strategy in a city is highly desired in order to support urban social activities. The paper proposed a method to create on-street parking space on urban streets and evaluated its feasibility in the aspects of the efficiency and the safety by examining and modeling the driving behavior around on-street parking. For this evaluation, the virtual reality traffic experiment system, which is an integrated system of a traffic simulator and a driving simulator, is updated and used to conduct test experiments. The results show a possibility to make on-street parking spaces without deteriorating the efficiency and the safety of operations.