CO2 Emissions Induced by Vehicles Cruising for Empty Parking Spaces in an Open Parking Lot

Parking lots are places of high air pollution as numerous vehicles cruise to find vacant parking places. Open receive vehicle traffic, and when limited empty spaces available it leads problems, such congestion, pollution, driver frustration. Due lack return on investment, open little studied, there is a research gap in understanding the magnitude CO2 emissions cruising observed at lots. Thus, this paper aims estimate distances an lot. A thermal camera was utilized collect videos during peak non-peak hours. The resulting were trajectories drivers searching for spaces. These analyzed identify optimal non-optimal cruising, time park, walking drivers. new model proposed smaller geographical regions, majority tend choose near shopping center, they prefer space center. mean distance 2.7 times higher than distance. Excess mainly visitor hours or no During hours, several could not region interest, which also excess cruising.