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Parking management refers to policies and
programs that result in more efficient use of
parking resources. Parking management includes

a variety of specific strategies; when applied

properly, it can reduce the requirement of parking
spaces, regulate vehicular traffic and can also
generate financial gains to the government

departments. Discussing about the need for a

comprehensive parking management program
Rm Alagappan, Senior Manager, Urban Mass
Transit Company Limited; Sachin Naik, Founder &

CEO, GetParking India; Dierk Grunzig, Consultant-

Smart Parking, Parking Guidance & Mobility,
CAP Consulting; Wilfred Menezes, Managing
Director & CEO, Omnitech Group; Harmeet Malik,

Executive Director, AutoPass India and Dr Rajesh

Krishnan, CEO, ITS Planners and Engineers Pvt
Ltd. The objective of the policies should be not just
providing the parking spaces but also managing

those spaces and promoting public transport.

Policy When we are talking about metros,
first mile connectivity and providing a
Alagappan: Enforcement of parking good bus stop within 500 metres and
regulations should be approached not everything, the time has come in the
only from the authority perspective or Indian scenario to go for a parking
from the police perspective but also minimum also. The parking minimum,
from the system itself. For example, the third pillar, is nothing but the
there might be a very good multilevel minimum parking space provided by
car park but again within the authority the builder at the planning stage itself
or within the systems, there is no as per the parking policy. We should
proper coordination happening. also be planning for the maximum
Within 100 metres, I am creating an space to be provided in a building
on-street surface parking spaces with a and the availability of public transport
less quantum of price. That means, the connectivity.
entire objective has gone; people will The fourth pillar is the parking
try to park on-street and the purpose permits. When a person is buying a
for which the multilevel parking vehicle he or she should show that
structure has been created would lose there is a space for parking. Either
its significance. he should submit a proof that space

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