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The objective of this study is to understand how and to what extent Indian Cities are prepared to implement contemporary parking management strategies. India follows decades-old generic minimum parking standards and parking charges are one of the lowest in the world. But in a recent decade, India has invested a considerable amount of money in improving public transport. There are close to 180 cities with bus-based public transport, 10 cities with BRTS, 8 cities with metro rail and 1 city with monorail facility. India has 515 km of operational metro lines and 381 stations in 11 cities. It is the right time to initiate the adoption of innovations in parking management to give support to public transport development using parking as a travel demand management tool. The city of Kochi is taken to study the feasibility of implementing parking maximums and parking levies. Kochi has 51% of public transport ridership at present with three different types of public transport modes like ferry, buses, and metro. Accessibility assessment and zone delineation are conducted to make parking cap** zones. It is possible to implement parking control zones and parking maximums in Kochi, because of the high accessibility to public transport. It can have an impact on public transport supply and optimal use of parking spaces.
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Abbreviations
- AWT:
-
Average Waiting Time
- ECS:
-
Equivalent Car Space
- EDF:
-
Equivalent Doorstep Frequency
- ETB:
-
Electric trolley bus
- HCBS:
-
High capacity bus system
- KCR:
-
Kochi City Region
- KMBR:
-
Kerala Municipal Building Regulations
- KSWTD:
-
Kerala State Water Transport Department
- NUTP:
-
National Urban Transport Policy
- PTAL:
-
Public Transport Access Level
- POI:
-
Points of interest
- SAP:
-
Service access points
- SWT:
-
Scheduled Waiting Time
- TAT:
-
Total Access Time
- TOD:
-
Transit-Oriented Development
- UMTA:
-
United Metropolitan Transport Authorities
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Kuriakose, P.N., Rajeendran, S.P. (2021). Parking Maximums and Work Place Levies: Time to Adopt New Paradigms in India, the Case of Kochi. In: Sharma, P. (eds) Geospatial Technology and Smart Cities. The Urban Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71945-6_15
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