Parking Management Principles

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Parking and Parking Management
Parking is an essential component of the transportation system. Vehicles must park at every destination. A typical automobile is parked most hours each day, and uses several parking spaces each week. (Todd Littman Victoria Transport Policy Institute, 2006) Parking management refers to policies and programs that result in more efficient use of parking resources.
Parking management includes a variety of specific strategies. When appropriately applied, parking management can significantly reduce the number of parking spaces required in a particular situation, providing significant financial savings and various other benefits. It can improve user quality of service, help create more accessible land use patterns …show more content…

For this reason, improved management is often the best solution to parking problems. (Todd Littman Victoria Transport Policy Institute, 2006)
Parking Management Principles According to Todd Littman Victoria Transport Policy Institute (2006), the following ten general principles can help guide planning decision to support parking management. The first principle is about consumer choice. People should have viable parking and travel options. The second principle is on user information. According to this principle, motorists should have information on their parking and travel options. The third principle is about sharing parking facilities. Parking facilities should serve multiple users and destinations. The fourth principle emphasizes on efficient utilization of parking spaces. Parking facilities should be sized and managed so spaces are frequently occupied. The fifth principle talks about flexibility. The principle holds that, parking plans should accommodate uncertainty and change. The sixth principle is about prioritization. The most desirable spaces should be managed to favor higher-priority uses. The seventh principle talks about pricing. As much as possible, users should pay directly for the parking facilities they use. The eighth …show more content…

Joshi, Khan and Motiwalla (2010) suggested some few ways the approach may be improved. The first way of approach is developing hardware which is cost-effective. This would be a major improvement. Due to the current high investment, costs associated with real-time parking related hardware such as sensors and RFID chips are high. The second way is the reduction of costs associated with on-going maintenance. This would also help bring the cost down and therefore lead to wide acceptance. The third approach is researching ways to increase the system uptime and study parking trends more efficiently which in turn will help make this model

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