Challenges of multilevel parking and its impact of surroundings

Abstract

Parking spots in Indian urban areas has remained consistent or diminished while several cars have expanded because of a developing populace. In India, private vehicle possession has been expanded by 400% between 2001 and 2015. Increasing the number of on-street parking places puts additional demand on the land, especially when land is scarce and expensive, as it is in cities. (Gautam, 2019). There are limitations to road expansion since roads are for moving vehicles. Deliberately but undoubtedly, it’ll congest the road eventually hence will be wasting more time of the road users and increase the pollution level as well (Msigwa, 2013). In any case, assuming we continue giving parking on land or as on-street, then, at that point, that would not be a fruitful endeavour, as parking on the road resembles a protuberance that upsets the progression of the city and put the weight on rest of the carriageway (Kaplush, 2019). It also obliterates the valuable community and gathering spaces of that area which could be utilized in more wonderful manner (Sisson, 2020). Multilevel car parking could be a solution for this problem, it might be installed both underground and above ground. Where we can have the additional space of parking by six to seven times more of an on-street parking, in case of traditional, and even more in case of automated parking system. But still in India, in most cities, multilevel car parking is not at their even half of the utilisation rate, hence faces the problem of less revenue generation and that makes it questionable to sustain as well. (Chitlangia, 2015). The study has been conducted in Indian cities including where multiple car parking has failed, and cities, where it succeeded as well along with Raipur & Delhi. To identify the challenges which are being faced, by parking, many distinct primary surveys were carried out along with several parking surveys, stakeholders & public interviews in those areas. The outcome of the study shows how multilevel car parking and on street parking will affect the nearby surrounding of urban area in terms of safety, public perception, and revenue collection. It also talks about the solution that how it could maximize the utilisation rate of multiple car parking.