Title: Parking Demand Forecast Model for Institutional Campus
Abstract: Parking of the vehicles has become the major issue in the present rapid urbanization. Adequate parking spaces at proper location are the biggest challenge for the civic administration. University campuses although generally has more spaces, is no exception to the problem of parking. Major concerns at most of the university campuses are overcrowding of vehicles at most preferred parking spaces. Students and staff hardly find proper spaces to park their vehicle near to the designated departments. Moreover, a habit of parking their vehicle in haphazard manner is making the situation within the campus make worst causing more inconvenience to the user. Many attributes contribute to this problem. Studies to determine adequate parking spaces at proper location within the campuses are undertaken elsewhere but no systematic study is reported for any Indian institutional campus. The present study attempts to identify the major attributes concern to the parking and develop a parking demand forecast model based on the data of field survey done on Indian institutional campus. The model developed would help to determine accurate parking demand so that adequate parking spaces can be planned at proper location. .Keywords: Parking, Parking demand Forecasting model, Institutional campus