Abstract:
Parking is an essential component of the transportation system. Parking
facilities are a major cost to society. Parking problems can be often defined either
in terms of inadequate supply or in terms of management (available facilities are
used inefficiently and should be better managed). Planning for parking in any urban
area is a challenging task because of unpredictable growth of vehicles, rising
congestion in cities and limited availability of land.
Growing rate of vehicles have put a tremendous pressure on urban
transportation system. Each vehicle sold brings parking space requirements to an
already inadequate parking infrastructure in Raipur. In such a scenario it is very
important to define parking problems carefully. Generous parking supply is part of
a cycle that leads to increased automobile dependency, since abundant parking
supply increases vehicle use and urban sprawl, causing parking demand and
parking supply to ratchet further upward. Thus there is a need to critically
understand and analyze the prevailing parking problems in the city and its future
implications and suggest solutions which leads to a sustainable and
comprehensive development improving traffic congestion problems in the city.
This study is an attempt to analyze the existing parking problems, parking
pattern, Parking demand, factors affecting parking and assess the applicability of
various parking management strategies. The basic objectives of this particular
study is to understand the need and demand of parking and to identify a set of
parking management strategies to meet the assessed parking requirements in the
study area. In this study I would like to shed some light on the perception of the
urban parking problems and also planning the proposals and parking
recommendations for improving the overall parking scenario of the study areas.
