Possible Solutions To The Parking Problem

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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 GENERAL Increase in vehicle population in the face of the limited road space used by a large variety of motorized and non‐motorized traffic has heightened the need and urgency for a well thought out project on the issue of road congestion. The precious time of citizens is wasted due to traffic jams and if this problem is not solved at this stage, and then it would become a serious and complicated problem in future. One of the major cause of such a huge traffic in the Central business district area (COMMERCIAL) of the cities is parking. The major problems faced by the road users due to parking are Congestion, Accidents, reduction in carriage width, Obstruction to flow traffic and much more. Thus, Parking is an …show more content…

Parking facilities are a major cost to society, and parking conflicts are among the most common problems facing designers, operators, planners and other officials. Such problems can be often defined either in terms of supply (too few spaces are available, somebody must build more) or in terms of management (available facilities are used inefficiently and should be better managed). The first situation is that few spaces being available for parking and the solution for this is to build more parking spaces. And the second in which the available spaces are not used to their maximum capacity. The solution for that is to make the parking …show more content…

Studies show that the longer a person is staying in an area, the farther they will be willing to walk from a parking space to their ultimate destination. Parking rates should encourage long term parkers to park in less desirable parking locations to reserve the most convenient parking for short term visitors. Prices should also reflect the demand on those spaces based on the time of day or special events in the area. By teasing out the issues above, solutions to parking problems can be narrowly targeted to address specific problems in specific places. Parking accumulation: It is defined as the number of vehicles parked at a given instant of time. Normally this is expressed by accumulation curve. Accumulation curve is the graph obtained by plotting the number of bays occupied with respect to time. Parking volume: Parking volume is the total number of vehicles parked at a given duration of time. This does not account for repetition of vehicles. The actual volume of vehicles entered in the area is

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