Transit Oriented CBDs helps to Mitigate On-Street Parking Demand for 4-wheelers: A Review

Abstract

Shortage of parking space in the urban Central Business District (CBD) is the common problem worldwide. The parking demand is more than the supply in all categories of cities in India. Managing this parking demand is a very important issue in transportation planning, especially for metropolitan cities. Due to lack of off-street parking system in the CBD area, visitors are forced to park their vehicle in on-street, which decreases the effective carriageway width, vehicular speed, free flow, unwanted congestion, and unwanted delay etc. Traffic congestion can be reduced by controlling the on-street parking. The objective of this paper is to estimate on-street parking demand and manage this demand by probable mode shift from private car to transit. Based on literature survey, parameters like land use, land value, vehicle ownership, parking fees, walking distance from parking place to destination, waiting time, searching time etc. are important to assess parking demand. Some surveys techniques, like in-out survey, license plate survey, questionnaire survey, video graphic survey methods etc. have been used to find out those parameters.