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COMPARITIVE ASSESSMENT OF ON-STREET AND OFF-STREET PARKING AND MODELING RESPONSE PAID PARKING POLICY FOR CBD AREA
A PROJECT REPORT
Submitted by
DHRUPVAN N. KATHIRIYA
HARDIK B. VAGHELA
VRAJESH J. PATEL
In fulfillment for the award of the degree of BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING in Civil Engineering Department

VADODARA INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING
Gujarat Technological University, Ahmedabad
April-may, 2017

VADODARA INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING
Civil Engineering Department
April-may, 2017
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The total space of the road remains constant and every year the exponential growth of the vehicles has caused the tremendous increase in the demand of the parking. With the growing culture of automobile dependency in Indian cities, the demand for parking spaces has sky rocketed. This is especially because the infra-structural growth of our cities is unable to keep up with the growing demand for spaces to park. The resultant scarcity of parking space has begun to spill over to other aspects of urban life in the form of congestion, fuel loss, dispersed land use and low air …show more content…

Even the priced parking is very low. Indian cities are known to have the lowest parking fees in the world. But this needs to change if parking strategy is expected to reduce travel demand and car usage. But some regressive trends have also set in as evident in the recent case of Khan Market, a posh Commercial area in Central Delhi where the traders have fought to assure free parking to the rich clientele. This has also shown how the environmental benefits of paid and restricted parking is not well understood and also ignored in our cities.
We Indians first learn about free parking. The odds of landing on free parking increases dramatically, when we begin to drive vehicles because of the experience of commuters in some large cities. Indian motorists park free on 99 percent of all trips.Leading cities around the world are using more efficient parking management and the travel demand principles to address multiple problems and create more livable and therefore attractive and economically vibrant, urban

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