Demand-Oriented Generation of Urban Parking Policies

The parking problem is a common sub-topic of transportation planning and urban planning, and it is increasing its impact day by day as urbanization intensifies. The rapid increase in the number of private vehicles, coupled with the presence of borders and thresholds limiting capacity increases in cities render the demand-supply problem permanent. The parking problem is generally addressed by rapidly generating additional supply to meet the rising demand and is dealt by non-integrated, piecemeal methods. Such micro- and medium-sized solutions only focus on temporarily deferring the larger problem. Hence, there is a need for an approach in which the demand is determined at all scales, evaluated on the basis of sub-centers, and policies and strategies are produced accordingly. In this study, a demand-oriented integrated parking lot planning approach has been generated for Trabzon, where supply is strongly limited due to topography. With the generated approach, policies and principle recommendations have been developed.