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This project aims to address parking challenges in the city through research, analysis, and implementing a short-term parking scheme. The scheme includes regulating parking spaces, creating new parking places, enforcement of traffic laws, and more.
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Measure 25 Short Term Parking Scheme 13.6.2012 Katerina Oktabcova Usti nad Labem Municipality
Background and Objectives • Increasing number of vehicles in the city • Critical parking conditions, primarily in the citycentre and in densely build-up residential areas • New parking strategy for the city is required • Objectives: • Improve conditions for parking in the city with regard to future development • Reduce negative impacts of individual transport and improve living environment in the city
Measure overview • Tasks • 11.3.3 Parking Strategy Research • Finished in M18 • RTD task • Analysis of current conditions of parking in the city and future development • 3.7 Short Term Parking scheme • Finished in M40 • DEMO task • Feasibility of a proposal for a parking scheme in the city centre and in residential areas
Task 11.3.3 • Parking strategy research • General background –current stateof trafficand parking conditions inthe city • Analysis of the existing parking policyin Ústí nad Labem – for the city centreandfor residential areas • Overview of tools suitable for parking management • Baseline field survey • Identification of problems • Proposal for appropriate solutions • Measure generalised to allow application in other areas in the city
Baseline Survey • Assessing various criteria of parking supply • number of parked vehicles • type of parking place (parking lanes, strips, bays, garages or other) • capacity of parking space (field detected or calculated from the official data of the city road network according to dimensional dispositions) • photo documentation • characteristic of parking and typical issues • Conducted on different week-days and at different times during May – June 2009 • Utilising data from previous surveys in the cityand from official records • Parking demand caclulated from the numberof buildings and character of the communemultiplied by the motorisation index • Parking deficit caclulated – difference betweensupply and demand
Identification of problems • Major problems: • serious deficit in the number of available parking places • cars parked everywhere, on places inappropriate for parking • Frequently occurring issues: • parked vehicles creating road bottlenecks • parking in the driving lane of the street • disregard of road signs • longitudinal parking disregarding insufficient width of the road • parking within crossroads causing traffic risks • commercial vehicles parked in the residential area • insufficient space disables transit of larger vehicles, such as fire trucks, garbage trucks and ambulance
Typical parking issues – insufficient capacity nedostatečná šířka jízdních pruhů stání uprostřed jízdního pásu nerespektování SDZ stání v křižovatce
Proposed solutions • Regulation of existing legal parking spaces • Indication of parking lanes and parking bays on urban road • Indication of areas with forbidden parking by both road marking and signing, especially near crossroads • Modification of selected streets to one-way roads to allow longitudinal parking on one side or on both sides. • Implementation of new parkingplaces • Development of public garages • Police enforcement of traffic laws and monitoring • Implementation of paid parking zones
Task 3.7 – New parking scheme • Transport policy • Principles of parking management, parking policy and its effectiveness • Parking fees • Influencing behaviour of drivers • Specifics of the city centre • Specifics of residential areas • Instruments suitable for parking restrictions • Reducing transit traffic, encouraging greater take-up of PT, P&R facilities, paid parking • Best practice from other cities • Parking scheme solutions • Long-term and short-term parking
Results in the city centre • situation in the city centre analysed by the field survey • occupancy as parking demand for parking places cannot be reliably determined - practically all parking places permanently occupied, many vehicles park illegally, numerous drivers are not able to park • Parking demand was derived from the methodology based on the Czech standard (ČSN 736110 – Designing local roads) and on general technical requirements for construction in the capital city • overall parking deficit calculated • proposed solutions for the new parking scheme: implementation of paid parking zones and establishing P&G premises on the perimeter of the city centre • after-data calculated through the transport model
Results in residential areas • Typical residential area Dobětice surveyed • total number of legal parking places is 1,649, which covers 76% of the parking demand, significant lack of parking spots. • The total number of parking places available after implementing measures for parking improvements will be 2,362, which covers the demand for parking by 108.9% • overall improvement of the parking status is 32.9% • Not sufficient for future development of motorisation prognosed by the Directorate of Roads and Highways of the CR (2%/year) • parking reserve exhausted within four years • more complex long-term solution requires significant investments into collective garages and implementation of charged parking on public roads.
Conclusion • The parking scheme issue is quite extensive • Numerous existing parking methods but only few are suitable for the situation in Usti nad Labem • Suitable parking strategy must fulffil compromis between the parking scheme, city traffic, public transportation and public opinion. • It involves technical solution and conveying information to the public - organising intensive advertising information campaign • Requires cooperation with the Police of the Czech Republic and the Municipal Police (control) • It is not possible to cover the present and future parking demand entirely, but the parking deficit can be at least minimised.
Support • Parking information leaflets • overview of the existing parking scheme and parking possibilities • basic information about payment methods and rates • lucid map displaying the parking facilities • for visitors, commuters and residents • Sample places for delivery vehicles • 6 parking places implemented in the city centre • designated only for vehicles supplying local shops • identified by vertical and horizontal markings • shopkeepers instructed on the regulations • parking discs distributed among suppliers as a support.
Evaluation • Final results in progress • Gathering after data from the transport model • Indicators: • Capacity reserve • traffic survey • number of spaces according to valid legislation • occupancy -> demand for parking • Perception of accessibility • determined by expert estimation based on demand for parking (subjective opinions of drivers not decisive) • Modal split • constant in residential area • in the centre – determination by transport model / expert estimation • Proposal of P&G – the model does not enable calculation of pedestrian flaws
Budget and costs • Purchases: • implementation of sample parking places for supply vehicles in the city centre • production and distribution of parking brochures • production and distribution of parking clocks to local businesses • Budget 17 000€ • Actual costs cca 5 000€ • Subcontract: • Field survey of parking conditions inthe city and development of suitable paid parking scheme for the city • Budget 60 000€ • Actual costs 62 244€
Thank you! Katerina Oktabcova CIVITAS Archimedes Ústí nad Labem Municipality katerina.oktabcova@mag-ul.cz www.usti-nad-labem.cz/civitas