Decision-theoretic cooperative parking for connected vehicles: an investigation

In this paper, we investigate a cooperative car parking mechanism calledCoPark-WS, for finding parking spaces in large areas. It is a decentralised approach which relies on vehicle-to-vehicle communications. There are two parameters we consider here in parking search behavior, namely, searching time and walking distance. The type of strategic cooperation and rational decision-making involved in selecting the search target areas inCoPark-WSare demonstrated via extensive simulations, which also show the robust performance ofCoPark-WSin different circumstances.