Assessment of parking requirement at university campus located in CBD area.

Civil Engineering

India is amongst the fastest developing countries of the world adjoined by increase in urbanization leading to the growth of vehicular population in urban areas. This scenario accelerates various problems as congestion, air pollution, and spilling of demand for parking in most urban area. Education campuses are not exempted from these problems. In view of this notion, effectiveness of parking has to be increased by suitable techniques such as implementation of appropriate parking policy in university campus. This study is focused on recent condition of vehicle parking demand in selected faculties and effect of proposed paid parking policy in university campus for both staff and student of M. S. University in city of Vadodara. The parking demand estimation study has revealed spilling over of existing supply capacity in selected colleges. All colleges are located in CBD area Vadodara city locating in Gujarat state of INDIA. The response model developed for proposed paid parking policy using Binary and Multinomial logistic regression analysis has indicated that household income is more significant than any of the trip variable for making the decision. The study provides useful input for framing parking policy in University campus.

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