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Due to economic and social activities, the regional growth is increased. In cities, the commuters are movingfor earning, education and social activities and vice-versa. It is necessary to provide transportation facilities to fulfill thecurrent and future demand. It is observed that economic condition is also rapidly increased in the last few years and itincreases the vehicular ownership in the urban area. The authority needs to provide parking facilities for reducingcongestion. At railway station and bus station, the rate of growth of daily commuters is high. It is observed from thestudy that the adequate parking facilities are not available. The daily commuters tend to park their vehicles on the streetand reduce the walking distance. It increases the traffic congestion, high energy consumption, deterioration ofenvironment and delay. The parking policies play a vital role in overall development of city and station areas. In thepresent study, the model is developed to forecast the demand from the growth rate of different type of vehicles in the cityas well as the evaluation of adequacy of parking facilities to meet the future parking demand. The model is developed forSurat city of Gujarat state. It caters very high traffic of daily commuters. The data are collected for analyzing the existingparking requirement and available parking. The proposed model predicts parking demand with more accuracy for themega city of developing country like India.

Radhika P Marvaniya, Dr.P. J. Gundaliya, “Development of Model for Prediction of Parking Demand at Railway Station - A Case Study of Surat City”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 5, Issue 1, pp. 365-369, January 2018.