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PARKING

Area wise Parking Management for

Sustainable Mobility

With an increase in vehicular registration
and increasing parking demand, cities
are facing the challenge to bridge the

gap between the demand and the
supply. This article by Prachi Merchant,
Sr. Planner associated with the

proposed Mumbai Parking Authority
at the Brihanmumbai Municipal
Corporation, looks into the issue of
parking, various experiments and
options adopted to tackle the complex

problems and highlights solutions
through parking management plans.

s per Paul Barter, the isolated measures, the results do being followed by other cities.
parking expert, most not necessarily meet the goals. The In India, Unified Traffic and
of the USA suburban European cities on the other hand, Transportation Infrastructure
towns and Indian cities have looked into (Planning & Engineering Centre
have experimented
Awith parking (i) parking as an infrastructure (UTTIPEC) guidelines have
recommended introducing parking
with every site having its
minimums and rigid enforcement parking management to decrease the use
where there is reluctance to pay. of the private vehicles with a focus
In this supply driven mechanism (ii) parking as a real estate based on efficient utilisation of designated
local Governments try to meet the service, serving the facilities to parking lots and prioritising para-
demand by constructing subsidised neighbourhoods transit or feeder modes. National
public parking facilities, eventually (iii) parking management by Urban Transport Policy (2007)
taking up on-street parking due planning districts and not site recommends allocation of parking
to low supply. But since these are by site. This must and is slowly spaces, land value based parking

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