Parking Policy for Vadodara city,Gujarat, India

Rapid growth in vehicles population has put enormous strain in all million plus cities. Due to high vehicle ownership and poor public transport facilities especially in the cities where population between 1 to 2 million. This study concerned with Vadodara city. A main objective of this study is to identify the problems in existing parking area by collecting parking survey data. This study can help to find innovative solution to the current problems such as increasing vehicle density, capacity of parking area and poor parking facility etc. It investigates problems with current parking planning, discusses the costs of parking facilities and potential savings from improved management, describes specific parking management strategies and how they can be implemented, discusses planning and evaluation issues, and describes how to develop optimal parking management in a particular situation. Cost-effective parking management programs can usually reduce parking requirements by 20-40% compared with conventional planning requirements, providing many economic, social and environmental benefits.

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Ar. Monika Patel received her bachelor's of Architecture from HNGU in 2014. In 2016 she received Master's Degree in Urban and regional Planning from Department of Architecture, Faculty of Technology and Engineering, The Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara. As Assistant Professor of Architecture and Planning department in the field of Research.