thesis parking

1. THESIS TITLE
 AVOIDANCE OF THE PROBLEM OF ON STREET
PARKING IN DILLA TOWN,
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2.  First, there is a general lack of parking spaces throughout African cities.
 Parking plays an important role in the transport system.
 the aim of the study is to assess the problems of current on- street parking
situations in study areas and to understand the extent of lack of parking spaces
resulting in street congestion and to recommend appropriate solutions for current
parking problems.
 Generally, on-street parking in city centers is an attractive facility for drivers.
Parking is a major problem in urban cities which has been increasing challenges
both in developed and developing countries since it interlinks transportation
infrastructures and land use management.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
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3.  Traffic congestion becoming more serious problems in a day to day activity of all
people in some parts of the dilla city, specifically, in morning and evening peak
hours meaning students and workers entrance and exit hours.
 Dilla town a road many number of vehicles are a street parking so a traffic
circulation a narrow, the use of one-way traffic flow
 Dilla town is the travel route of moyale road, Dilla main road accesses, affects
traffic congestion and traffic operations; Bajaj, bus, lorry, motors, bicycle, carts etc
1.2 PROBLEM STATEMENT
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 Dilla triangular shape and type of (radial )road network
 The radial type system road network is used for major road which have
cumbersome traffic load,

4.  The main purpose of the research is to avoid the problems of current on- street parking
situations in study areas and to understand the extent of lack of parking spaces resulting
in street congestion and to recommend appropriate solutions for current parking problems
1.3.2 Specific objective
The study will attempt to achieve the following specific objectives:
 To determine the adequacy and efficiency of the current on-street parking situation;
 To identify the major problems of current on-street parking facilities;
 To assess parking policies of dilla city ;
 Examine the condition of street parking lots in dilla town,
 Find out the associated problems of parking lots scarcity in dilla town,
1.4, research questions
 This study is intended to answer the following research questions:
1, what are the main causes for the lack of car parking in dilla town?
2, how do the existing parking facilities in the studied area fulfill the requirements of the
road users?
3, Can lack of adequate parking spaces cause significant street congestion?
4, what is reason a traffic flow a increasing to time to time?
5, what a challenge is dilla town facing in terms of car parking?
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1.3 OBJECTIVE
General objective

5. 1.6 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
 The scope of the research is to study the current situation of car parking in dilla town,
the scope of the research is limited to specific locations,
 it is expected to provide the general idea to have convenient public and/or private
parking lots and traffic management in Ethiopia particularly in dilla town,.
2, CHAPTERTWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
Definition of key terms
Parking is needed to temporarily store the vehicle used for transportation either at the
origin or the destination of travel
Traffic Flow; Traffic flow is the study of interactions between vehicles, drivers and
infrastructure (including highways, signage and traffic control devices)
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1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
 This study makes an effort to assess the current on street parking
facility problems in dilla and develop practicable solutions

6. General Terms of Parking Facilities
 1. Parking Accumulation:-The total number of vehicles parked in an area at a specified
moment.
 2. Parking volume:-The number of vehicles parked in a particular area over a given
period of time. It is usually measured in vehicles per day.
 3. Parking load:-The area under the parking accumulation curve during a specified
period.
 4. Parking duration:-The length of time spent in a parking space.
 5. Parking index:-Percentage of parking bays actually occupied by parked vehicles as
compared to the theoretical number available.
 6. Parking turn over:-Rate of the usage of the available parking space. Thus if there were
10 parking spaces used by 100 vehicles in a period of say 12 hours then the parking
turnover would be
2.3 TYPES OF PARKING FACILITIES
1, On-street parking facilities:
2, off street parking

7.  Effects of parking{wrong parking}
There are various effects of wrong parking on society as well as on environment
1. Congestion
2.Accidents
3. Obstruction
2.9 AVAILABILITY OF PARKING SPACE
PARKING NEEDS BY USER TYPE; 1. Workers
2. Shoppers and service center users
3. Visitors
4. Residents
PARKING DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS
The following factors of parking area design:
I. Needs analysis;1 Parking study
2 Parking requirement factors
2 Physical requirements ;● Siting
● Miscellaneous
● Parking Area Types
● Geometry
● Access
● Maintenance
3 aesthetics and safety;

8. 2.6 THE PROBLEM OF DILLA TOWN
Asphalt road project is a within Dilla town 14.5 KM long
 Dilla town the use of one way traffic flow.
 I have a parking bay and also traffic flow narrow
 A road dimension will influence the parking bay width and also circulation pattern.
And also high potential for accident. And also lack of a fuel,
 Dilla triangular shape and type of (radial )road network
 The radial type system road network is used for major road which have cumbersome traffic
load,
 Dilla town is the travel route of moyale road, Dilla main road accesses, affects traffic
congestion and traffic operations; Bajaj, bus, lorry, motors, bicycle, carts etc
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2.5 WHY MANAGE PARKING
 Reduce traffic congestion and vehicle emission created by cars circling the block, looking
for available free on-street parking
 Support street level businesses by facilitating convenient parking for a customer,
 Provide revenue stream which could be used to support enforcement ,future project or
both ,
 Enhance the visitor experience with available street parking near street –level businesses
 Complement the urban character for development by encouraging timely then over of
space.

9. CHALLENGES OF CAR PARKING IN DILLA TOWN
1,Increased number of motor& cars:
2,Inadequacy of parking spaces.
3,Rapid urbanization.
4,Pedestrian safety and comfort:
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Figure, 1the parking bay
figure 2, delight hotel parking bay

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CASE STUDY
Cardiff City Centre
Locations: Cardiff City Centre
• Cardiff city center is one of the most successful shopping hubs in the
UK with a huge footfall. An efficient parking policy can ease the
congestion and externalities for this area.
• A thorough study of people’s parking behavior can directly contribute
to the parking policy making for Cardiff Council

11. TYPES OF DATA
Two types of data collection will be used, primary and secondary.
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3.CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3,1INTRODUCTION
In this part of the study, all the methods and technics used in this research are presented.
These methods are including the data collection method, how to analyze the collected data,
what type of data are used. All the methods and technics are based on scientific research
methodology
Problem Site visit Data gathering
Questioner
Specify
Solution design
Primary data, are Are observation, interview, questionnaires and other depending on the
need of information while doing the research
 Secondary data, are gathered from literature, case studies, magazines, books and
documentations with the help of websites using internet. Concerned government
office dilla transport were others sources to get secondary data

12. Research design
Step 1 ,Select title after analyzing problems around and search for literature reviews to
strengthen the title and observe to make sure of the problems and gather the existing data.
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DATA SOURCE, TOOLS AND COLLECTION
This chapter shows data collection method by different approaches and
sources the purpose is to collect views and ideas from the society that
street parking space
Title selection
Questioner
Literature review
Step 2 There are different methods of collecting data. For this research questioning the
parking conditions on the dilla town what they feel towards those things and how
they think it affects them and architectural elements related questions is one way of
approach.
Data collection
Case studies
Observation
Observed issue

13.  Step 3
The third step analyzes the collected data/ document. Giving design
solution is started from analyzing all raw data gathered through
Observation, questioner’s case study and literature reviews, the
analyzed data lead us to some point,
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analysis
Gathered information
analysis
Existing
Site analysis
Step 4
The design stage will be the final output of this thesis project, in this process preparing
concept plan, site plan, architectural design, material specification, recommendation and
conclusion will be included
Concept plan
Site plan
Architectural design
Recommendation
Conclusion
design

14. research question
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ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY
problem statement
research question
specific objective of the
research
Significanficance of
study
objective of the research
literature review
PHASE1
types of data
data source
choice of method
methodology
method of data
data collection
data analysis
design
PHASE2