Abstract

The Indian cities are developing and spreading rapidly. The parking issue has become a major planning problem in urban areas of major cities because of rapid economical and vehicle population growth. It is stated that population growth and increasing living standards of people are responsible for the rise in the city’s vehicular population. Affordable prices and subsidized parking fees are leading people to refer private vehicle over public transit as their travel mode. This study is carried out to investigate parking characteristics and to find the gap between parking guidelines and implementation. For the study, three different routes were identified which were critical in terms of parking facility. All the three routes were different in terms of land use, to study how the change in land use changes the parking behavior. For the survey, License plate method was opted, and survey was carried out during weekdays and weekends at peak hours. On-street and off-street parking characteristics were analyzed considering the parking statistics which includes parking accumulation, parking occupancy, parking load, average parking duration, parking index/parking efficiency. With the change in land use, all the parking statistics were also changing. During the study, it was observed that some areas, even having sufficient parking capacity suffered from congestion due to improper management and lack of availability of required signs, marking of bays and other smart techniques. Lack of coordination between different agencies was observed which led to poor implementation of the set policies and guidelines. Apart from these change in the land use, poorly maintained parking spaces, encroachment on the parking spaces were the major issues observed. Observing the study outcomes, some guidelines have been suggested for optimal utilization of available space. Formation of “parking management cell” under the purview of Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) will be helpful in bringing the coordination and organized structure for the successful implementation. Also, formulation of parking area management plan
(PAMP) was done with demarcation of all type of parking facilities.
Keywords: On-street parking, parking characteristics, parking management plan, policy guidelines
INTRODUCTION
Rapid growth in vehicle density is leading to requirement of more parking space and ultimately
putting enormous pressure in cities. Vehicles are getting parked at roadsides, footpaths and similar
spaces in a much unorganized manner. A typical vehicle runs for 1 h on an average and is parked for
23 h in a day. It needs to be highlighted that even if we keep on creating more and more number of
parking spaces, seeing at the present rate of growth of vehicles, there is always going to be a huge deficit. Increasing parking supply is not an effective solution. Instead, focused measures must be taken to reduce the number of private vehicles. Insufficient parking in the cities leads to high degree

Keyworde: On-street parking, parking characteristics, parking management plan, policy guidelines

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