“ON –STREET PARKING: A BIGGEST PROBLEM OF URBAN STREETS”

Abstract

Parking is considered to be one of the major issues for all the urban streets of developing cities of the world.
Specially in India on-street parking has been the burning problem of the metropolitan cities like Mumbai, Kolkata,
Chennai, Ahmedabad, etc. Problems like reduction in carriage width, congestion, and increase in number of accident are
the results of improper on street parking management. The global exposure says that Paid parking can be one of the
effective tools for managing the on-street parking problem. The benefits of such a paid policy are shown to dependon the
improvement in search externalities in the on-street parking market itself, plus effectson other distorted urban transport
markets, including congested freeway and backroad use,mass-transit and off-street parking. But, the policy variables
that play a part in mode choice decisions for commuters are the parking cost and the travel time by transit, and the
results suggest that raising the cost of parking at work sites and decreasing the transit travel time (by improving service
and decreasing headways) will reduce the drive alone mode share. Thus the present paper is an attempt to know the
review of the parking research going on into the world. The attempt is made to summarize the effective steps that can be
taken in order to reduce the extent of parking problem