Literature Review On Parking Problem In Campus

LITERATURE REVIEW (PARKING PROBLEM IN UTP: STUDENTS SUGGESTION FOR IMPROVEMENTS)

Parking was not a problem to students in the past times as not many of them owned a vehicle during their studies. As time goes by, parking has been a very serious problem to students in universities as most of them owns vehicle. Several factors contributing to this problem are the shortages of parking lots and inadequate pricing mechanism (Steiner, 1999).The problem of lack in parking is probably as a result of students preferring to drive alone rather than walking or cycling to the campus. Furthermore, this problem becomes more severe during the peak hour as the number of trips in campus increases drastically compared to the number of parking available in certain

As a result to this problem, students suffered from finding parking spots and spend more unnecessary amount of time to find parking. It seems finding a place to park takes longer time than walking from their residence. From Aaron, Michael and Nichole (2001) studies, they found that it is obvious that students spend more than 10 minutes to find a parking spot. Thus, to move from one place to another in the campus took overall more than 20 minutes. On the other hand, some students rather to take the risk of parking their car illegally on the side of the road than walking from a far parking spaces just to get to the class on time. As a result to this action, the traffic in the parking space seems to be crowded and the rate of minor accidents increases (Scruggs, Epperson, Blevins, Mudd & Franklin, 2010), therefore, to secure a parking spot, one should people

Commonly, the lack of parking space can be overcomed by providing extra parking spaces and building parking garage (Bowerman 2006; Aaron et. al, 2001). Some of the proposed idea was to utilize the empty lands in the campus by building parking spaces and parking garage because some students are willing to pay higher fee for a guaranteed parking spot in a garage. Nevertheless, Scruggs, Epperson, Blevins, Mudd and Franklin (2010) sees that, despite of providing extra 200 to 300 spaces, building a parking garage would only cost a lot of time and money. While in the same time, the University also has its own planning towards utilizing the empty lands by building other important facilities. Therefore, to make an extra parking space seems not to be the easiest and the best way to solve this problem. The efficient way to solve this problem was to reduce the number of vehicles to and from the campus (Steiner, 1999; Scruggs et. al, 2010). One of the ways to reduce the number of vehicles in a campus is to minimizing single occupant vehicle. According to Scruggs, Epperson, Blevins, Mudd and Franklin (2010), carpooling are the best examples of minimizing single occupant vehicle as this system has proven to be effective in reducing the number of vehicles in University of Kentucky. In addition, to reduce the number vehicles in the campus, most of