Study of Mixed Parking Area for Four Wheelers and Two Wheelers

This work summarizes the ongoing researches about the study of mixed parking area for four wheelers and two wheelers at PGI Chandigarh. The main focus of this research was to improve the parking problems of PGI Chandigarh. Shortage of parking space is turning out to be a big problem at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh. It isn’t just a problem of staff or patient, it’s a trouble for anyone who works at the premier institute. How many lives are put at risk because those accompanying patients have to struggle to find a parking space while a patient’s condition deteriorates. A recent study has found that more than 13,000 vehicles, including around 7,000 cars, enter the institute everyday against the parking capacity of just over 3,000 cars. The excessive delays occur with low running speeds and traffic congestion at various junctions and midblock sections. The biggest parking facility at the institute is the multi-level parking in front of the new OPD building. It has a capacity to accommodate 550 cars. The institute is mulling to construct a new parking facility with capacity of around 750 cars at a cost of 119 crore. It will be the biggest parking facility at the institute and will be built in the area between the New OPD block and Advanced Eye Centre. To find a parking space at PGI is not an easy task. The institute has around 9,000 employees and it caters to around 6,000 patients in outdoor patient department everyday and around 2,000 patients remain admitted for the indoor care. Not only patients, even doctors and employees are facing the parking problem. Each day from 9am to 10pm, the road leading to the PGI witness traffic jam. Many patients and their relative’s park vehicles in the sector 11 market, while others leave cars alongside the road.