The literature on car cruising is dominated by theory. This is the first article that examines cruising for parking using a nation-wide random sample of car trips. We exclude employer-provided and residential parking. We demonstrate that cruising time is, on average, 36 seconds per car trip. Car...

Residents are often offered on-street parking at a fraction of the market price which may cause excess car ownership. However, residential parking costs are difficult to observe, so we propose an approach to estimate implicit residential parking costs and then examine the effect of these costs...