DEVELOPING PARKING MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR HAWASSA CITY : A CASE STUDY OF MENEHARYA SUB-CITY

Abstract

Parking is one of an essential component of the transportation system. Vehicles may park at every destination. Increase in number of vehicle in developing cities like Hawassa will made the cities more congested and increase delays. Parking studies are therefore used to determine the demand for and the supply of parking facilities in an study area, the projection of the demand and the views of various interest groups on how best to solve the Problem. This thesis basically focus on developing parking management strategies of the city by selecting typical sub-city by using percentile and Weighted Factor Rating method. For the study both primary and secondary data used as a data source. Primary data collected from firsthand information through field surveys /mainly by license plate method/ from paved corridors of the sub- city, municipality interview and questionnaires. Secondary data sources also be collected from Hawassa city municipal documents , reports and Addis Ababa city road authority /AACRA/ manual . Data collection by field survey will made for two types of parking, for on street and off-street parking. Mainly license plate method of survey, questionnaires and interviews are used to collect data for the study. The analysis of the data from the questioners is carried out by using percentages and frequency count. As from questionnaires vehicle users are purposed for business, work, leisure and restaurant users respectively. In addition, the data from the city municipality road traffic safety administration indicates present usage of parking facility in the study area. The result of parking statistics mainly parking occupancy and parking index shows that there is the space for vehicles to park but problem of management results with unpatterned parking and becomes the case for parking accidents By better management and model formulation for on -street parking utilization area minimized. For instance by 30ᵒ parking, 1492m2 area of parking will be saved. By 45ᵒ parking 4102 m2 ,by 60ᵒ parking 5268 m 2 and by 90ᵒ parking 6040 m2 area of parking will be saved. Number of improved parking spot is 119 by 30ᵒ parking. 328 , 421 and 483 number of parking spots improved by 45ᵒ,60ᵒ and 90ᵒ angle parking respectively. But since the carriage way of roads in the city is not much wide parking at wider angle is not recommended. Model validation , sensitivity analysis and model result evaluation also indicated that the existing parking capacity can be improved by better management