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The document contains three questions and solutions related to parking studies. Question 1 involves calculating additional parking spaces needed given current usage. Question 2 involves calculating metrics like average occupancy from survey data. Question 3 involves calculating total parking supply given space allotments and average duration.

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Solution To Parking Studies Tutorials

The document contains three questions and solutions related to parking studies. Question 1 involves calculating additional parking spaces needed given current usage. Question 2 involves calculating metrics like average occupancy from survey data. Question 3 involves calculating total parking supply given space allotments and average duration.

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Parking studies tutorial questions

Q1. The owner of a parking garage located in a CBD has observed that 20% of those wishing to
park are turned back every day during the open hours of 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. because of lack of parking
spaces. An analysis of data collected at the garage indicates that 60% of those who park are
commuters, with an average parking duration of 9 hr, and the remaining are shoppers, whose
average parking duration is 2 hr. If 20% of those who cannot park are commuters and the rest are
shoppers, and a total of 200 vehicles currently park daily in the garage, determine the number of
additional spaces required to meet the excess demand. Assume parking efficiency is 0.90.

Solution
Commuters now being served = 0.6 * 200 * 9 = 1080 space-hr
Shoppers now being served = 0.4 * 200 * 2 = 160 space-hr
D=∑ (𝑛 𝑡 )
Total number of vehicles turned away = (200 /0.8) -200 = 50
Commuters not being served = 0.2 * 50 * 9 = 90 space-hr
Shoppers not being served = 0.8 * 50 * 2 = 80 space-hr
Total space-hours of demand = (1080 + 160 + 90 + 80) = 1410
Total space-hours served = 1080+ 160 = 1240
Number of space-hours required = 1410 - 1240 = 170 S = 170
S=𝑓 ∑ (𝑡 )
Use the length of time each space can be legally parked on (8 a.m. through 6 p.m. = 10 hr) to
determine the number of additional spaces. 0.9 *10 * N = 170 N = 18.89
At least 19 additional spaces will be required, since a fraction of a space cannot be used.
Q2. The parking survey data collected from a parking lot by license plate method is s shown in the
table below. Find the average occupancy, average turn-over, parking load, parking capacity and
efficiency of the parking lot. Table: License plate parking survey data

Solution

1. Turnover = number of vehicles that have occupied the specific parking bay over the study period.
Turn-over is computed as the number of vehicles present in that bay for that particular
hour. For the first bay, it is counted as 3. Similarly, for the second bay, one vehicle is
present throughout that hour and hence turnout is 1 itself.
2. Average turn-over = Sum of turnover/Total number of bays
3. Parking volume = Sum of the turn-over in all the bays
4. Accumulation for a time interval is the total of number of vehicles in the bays 1 to 12 for
that time interval.
5. Occupancy for that time interval is accumulation in that particular interval divided by total
number of bays.
6. Average occupancy is found out as the average of total number of vehicles occupying the
bay for each time interval.
7. Parking capacity = number of bays × number of hours
8. Parking load = total number of vehicles accumulated at the end of each time interval ×
time
9. Efficiency = Parking load/Total number of bays
10. Average duration is the average time for which the parking lot was used by the vehicles.
It can be calculated as sum of the accumulation for each time interval × time interval
divided by the parking volume

Q3. For a given parking study, 450 spaces were considered available for 12-hour parking; 280
spaces were available for 6-hour parking, 150 spaces for 7-hour parking, 100 spaces for 5-hour
parking. The average parking duration recorded was 1.4hr. Find the Parking supply at this
facility. Take the insufficiency factor, F to be 0.9

Solution

Using the equation

∑ 𝑁𝑇
P= ∗F
𝐷

(450 ∗ 12) + (280 ∗ 6) + (150 ∗ 7) + (100 ∗ 5)


P= ∗ 0.9
1.4

P= 5,548 vehicles
Take note of these parking studies terms

 Parking Utilization: The percentage of parking spaces being used at any given time.
 Parking Duration: Parking duration is the length of time a vehicle is parked at a parking
bay. When the parking duration is given as an average, it gives an indication of how
frequently a parking space becomes available.
 Peak Hour Parking Demand: The highest parking demand during a specific time of
day or week.
 Parking Turnover: It the rate of use of a parking space. It is obtained by dividing the
parking volume for a specified period by the number of parking spaces.
 Parking Occupancy: The percentage of available parking spaces that are occupied at a
given time.
Occupancy, O =100* (max. Accumulation/ Supply)

 Parking Capacity: The maximum number of parking spaces that can be accommodated
in a particular area.
 Parking Ratios: The number of parking spaces required per unit of land use or activity
(e.g., number of parking spaces per square foot of retail space).
 Parking Management Strategies: Policies and practices to manage parking demand and
supply, such as pricing, time limits, and parking restrictions.
 Parking Accumulation: Parking accumulation is the number of parked vehicles in a
study area at any specified time. This data can also be plotted as a curve of parking
accumulation against time, which shows the variation of the parking accumulation during
the day.
 Parking load: The parking load is the area under the accumulation curve between two
specific times. It is usually given as the number of space-hours used during the specified
period of time.

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