Characteristics of On-street Parking On-street Parking in Al-Najaf City Urban Streets

Abstract

Providing suitable parking spaces may reduce disrupting traffic flow and mitigate congestion in urban streets. In that case; on- street parking is the main problem that often encountered in urban streets. The on-street parking phenomenon is widely spread in urban streets of Al-Najaf city. Therefore, this study has focused on two congested sites: Al-Rawan and Al-Iskan in order to investigate on-street parking characteristics. Thus; field data were collected using drone, video camera and manual counts. The average turnover, waiting time and type of parking were investigated. These sites have been divided into two sites and each one has been divided into several segments. Mainly, it was found that the peak period for both sites is in the evening after 4:00PM according to the activities there. The results of data analysis indicate that the waiting time for most parking vehicles in both sites is more than 80% for 30minutes. Finally, the results demonstrate that illegal parking behaviour is common in the study area city both on weekdays and weekend and the suggested improvements are to regulate on-street parking and provide off-street parking.