Urban and Regional Studies

Parking really matters to urban mobility. Due to economic development of state, the urbanization in Gujarat spreading at very fast rate in last few decades. Urbanization in Gujarat is governed by Land pooling and redistribution tool of land management which is mentioned in Gujarat Town Planning and Urban Development Act, 1976. It is called the Town planning scheme mechanism. The Act provides criteria for different land use reservation, but it lacks specifications about parking area provision for public utility. Need to integrate the parking area reservation in the town planning scheme process just as the other land use reservations mentioned is essential, because the parking give major contribution in congestion through reducing the carriageway capacities and by reducing the flow of traffic through making obstruction. If we are going to make city growth in planned manner then, all components should be taken in planning process to make better execution of it by using existing experience of congestion and parking issues. Focus of my present work shall be identification of unauthorized parking observed at intersections of important roads in a planned and implemented final T. P. Schemes of Surat and to intervene if any relation is there between land use composition and parking area requirement. There is the reason why only the land use relations, because when the draft TPS prepared, the land use structure previously identified and known before the implementation done on the real site, so we can predict the parking area need.