Abstract:
This research work refers to propose the solution of the traffic jam and congestion which occurs
on Bolan road NUST during Friday congregational prayers. During the Friday prayers, majority
of university’s traffic diverts towards the Jamia mosque and HBL parking. However, due to
insufficient parking stalls, both parking cannot accommodate all the traffic. So, a good number of
vehicles are parked on the Bolan road which results in huge traffic jam and congestion on the road
and reduce the efficiency of the road for almost 1.5hrs. In our project we have proposed the
possible solution to reduce the traffic jam and increase the efficiency of the road by making a new
parking on the area available on the left of the Jamia mosque.
This research work proposed a smart parking system to be made which includes automated parking
barriers, barrier gates, virtual camera and sensor loop. The major objective to design a parking
system is to make a system that adequately handles the parking lot and maximizes the efficiency
of the road and a parking system that will minimize the manual work and fully use the modern
technology to operate. All the required traffic data was collected on site and vehicular flow was
collected for two consecutive weeks during the congregational prayers. Parking system was
developed on the AutoCAD software. This research work also aims to provide more parking stalls
than the actual requirement to make it more efficient and to also accommodate the access vehicular
volume due to increased population of the university because of the inauguration of new
departments and technological centres.
