Lt Col Dr Muhammad Bilal Khurshid

Abstract

The study ‘Parking Management for Peshawar Saddar’ was carried out to learn and analyse the methodology and mitigation techniques of parking problems in Peshawar saddar. The growing population demands of roads and traffic structures. For the past 10 to 15 years there has been a lot of development and progress in Peshawar Saddar. Mainly because of construction of new business Centers and shopping malls that have further worsened the traffic and parking situation of Saddar. A realistic approach and chronological methodology was followed to deal with the area under study. It was recognized that the major reason for the traffic congestion in Peshawar saddar was due to insufficient parking spaces during peak hours. The whole saddar area was divided into four zones for analyzing the problem in detail. The parking conditions were observed in each zone and measurements were taken for each road in these zones. On-street and off-street capacity of Saddar was calculated according to these measurments. Moreover, to find out the parking demand in Saddar, the businesses in all zones were divided into different categories. The survey was carried out for each category. Mainly two types of surveys were carried out i.e Business Owner Survey and General Public Survey. The analysis of results acquired from these surveys paved a way to understand the rational approach involved for calculating the demand. The analysis helped to extract various results such as Passenger factor, multi-category factor, timing schedule. After applying the rotation factor on demand, it was compared with the existing capacity of Saddar Peshawar. As per anticipation, the demand exceeded the capacity and there was a requirement to cater for the excess parkings spaces. The solution suggested for this problem was the construction of parking places in Saddar at empty spaces available