EVALUATION OF PARKING DEMAND-A CASE STUDY OF SURAT RAILWAY STATION

Each medium of transportation involves three necessary elements, without which it cannot operate effectively: the vehicle, the right-of-way, and the terminal. For water transportation, these essentials consist of the vessels, waterways, and port facilities; for railroad transportation, trains, tracks and stations; for air transport, planes, airways and airports. Similarly, the elements of motor transportation are vehicle, the road, and a place to park at the end of the trip. The purpose of this paper to investigate and evaluate the problem related to present parking facilities at Surat Railway Station. The license plate method was conducted for collecting the data of current conditions for improving services. A parking utilization survey was conducted to determine the parking demand of the users. The analysis of this paper focuses on parking characteristics such as parking accumulation, parking duration, parking index, turnover, parking load and volume.