Designation of a paid parking zone in Łódź

Abstract

This article has two aims: cognitive and methodological. The first one focuses ondelineating city areas (of Łódź in this case), in relation to whicha conscious parking policy should be implemented, including differentiation of the base parking feeand dynamics of parking cost increment in time. The methodological aim, in turn, consists in elaborating a research algorithmbased exclusively on the geographical information system,which is based on generallyavailable vector data,together with data obtainedfrom intelligenttransport systems. For their realization of the authors of this article elaborated their own methodology. It consists of five stages. The basic research unit isthe surveying district. The area on the basis of which the research was made is the Łódź urban zone defined in the Strategy of Spatial Developmentfor Łódź (2012). Each research stage corresponds to defining the powerofimpact of the variablewhich, as an research overview shows, affectsthe parking policy. Since the research is conducted on the basisdifferent variablesat individual stagesand finally thecoefficient assumes the form of five elements, it is necessary to standardize partial results. The article usesa procedure based on thequotient of the difference between the calculated valueand the averagefor the wholegroupdivided by standard deviation. The results of the conducted researchin the cognitive scopeshow that problems connected with parking organizationdo not concern only the very city centre (mostly the district of Śródmieście). Particular attention should be drawn to areasnext to the city’s main transport arteries which golatitudinally (for instance, Piłsudski avenue) ormeridionally (e.g. Kościuszki street, Zachodnia street).