Abstract
Large towns of Lithuania should especially focus on the solution of the parked cars; and modem technologies should be employed for that. The research methods have been substantiated and the recommendations for the technical regulations of the short-term and long-term car parking near different objects of attraction have been worked out on the basis of selective natural research, which is significant when issuing technical specifications to investors on the way the surroundings of the objects being built should be arranged and on what rearrangement of the urban streets is necessary. With a high level of motorization, the organization of the car parking process is a complicated problem of urban planning. The accumulated experience and the carried out analysis show that car parking problems can be positively solved even with a high level of motorization by: making use of the urban area as reasonably as possible so that the spaces could take the greatest possible number of cars; limiting the duration of parking so that the greater number of cars could use the same parking space; promoting car sharing; differentiating the entrance possibilities for different vehicles with regard of time, space and fee size. Solutions related to the determination of the parking space should be achieved in the context of the strategy of total urban development, area and traffic planning, traffic safety improvement and preservation of unique environment.
Highlights
The increasing number of population and the level of motorization cause the problem of parking the solution ofwhich is much more complicated than that of other problems of traffic organisation
The transport system analysis will secure a rational choice of the place for new supennarkets having convenient approach and an optimal number of parking places, as well as it will minimize a negative impact on the total transport system
Lithuania does not lag behind developed foreign countries, what means that the growth trends of in the number of cars will sustain for a long time and planning the parking facilities near supermarkets it is necessary to observe the norms of other countries, for example Germany where 1 parking place is given per each 10-20 m2 of the trade hall area
Summary
The increasing number of population and the level of motorization cause the problem of parking the solution ofwhich is much more complicated than that of other problems of traffic organisation. Basing on the data of the research conducted in Copenhagen, the Danish scientists state that to meet the needs for parking in the downtowns of the average size towns the number of the parking places should amount to 16-18 % of the total number of the cars registered. The experience of these towns in the establishment of multi-storey garages in the downtown may be successfully used in the solution of transport problems in the big towns of Lithuania [11,12,13]. The first special parking facilities taking several hundreds of vehicles have been installed in the downtown of Vilnius: parking facilities under Gediminas avenue take 260 vehicles, a multi-storey parking garage on Tilto street takes 180 vehicles, the underground parking facilities under the Business Centre on Jogailos street, etc These facilities do not solve the problem of parking and only improve the parking conditions for a small group of people
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