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February 2, 2021
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Competing for congestible goods: experimental evidence on parking choice

Publicated to: Scientific Reports. 10 (1): 20803- - 2020-11-30 10(1), DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-77711-w

Authors:

Pereda, M; Ozaita, J; Stavrakakis, I; Sánchez, A
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Affiliations

Natl & Kapodistrian Univ Athens, Dept Informat & Telecommun, Athens, Greece - Author
Unidad Mixta Interdisciplinar Comportamiento Comp, Madrid 28911, Spain - Author
Univ Carlos III Madrid, Grp Interdisciplinar Sistemas Complejos, Dept Matemat, Madrid 28911, Spain - Author
Univ Carlos III Madrid, Inst UC3M Santander Big Data IBiDat, Madrid 28903, Spain - Author
Univ Politecn Madrid, Escuela Tecn Super Ingn Ind, Grp Invest Ingn Org & Logist IOL, Dept Ingn Org Adm Empresas & Estad, C Jose Gutierrez Abascal 2, Madrid 28006, Spain - Author
Univ Zaragoza, Inst Biocomp & Fis Sistemas Complejos BIF, Zaragoza 50018, Spain - Author
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Abstract

Congestible goods describe situations in which a group of people share or use a public good that becomes congested or overexploited when demand is low. We study experimentally a congestible goods problem of relevance for parking design, namely how people choose between a convenient parking lot with few spots and a less convenient one with unlimited space. We find that the Nash equilibrium predicts reasonably well the competition for the convenient parking when it has few spots, but not when it has more availability. We then show that the Rosenthal equilibrium, a bounded-rational approach, is a better description of the experimental results accounting for the randomness in the decision process. We introduce a dynamical model that shows how Rosenthal equilibria can be approached in a few rounds of the game. Our results give insights on how to deal with parking problems such as the design of parking lots in central locations in cities and open the way to better understand similar congestible goods problems in other contexts.
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Keywords

ArticleCityCompetitionDecision makingHumanNash equilibrium

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Scientific Reports due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2020, it was in position 17/72, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Multidisciplinary Sciences.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2026-04-26:

  • Google Scholar: 9
  • WoS: 3
  • Scopus: 5
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-26:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 9.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 9 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 2.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 1 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://oa.upm.es/90060/

As a result of the publication of the work in the institutional repository, statistical usage data has been obtained that reflects its impact. In terms of dissemination, we can state that, as of

  • Views: 170
  • Downloads: 20
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Greece.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (PEREDA GARCIA, MARIA) .

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Awards linked to the item

This research has been funded by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades-FEDER funds of the European Union support, under project BASIC (PGC2018-098186-B-I00), and by Comunidad de Madrid under Grant PRACTICO-CM, and by Comunidad de Madrid and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid under grant CAVTIONS-CM-UC3M.
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