Characteristics of Selected Off-Street Parking in AL-Mansour Neighborhood / Baghdad

Abstract

Car Parking is an important problem occurs in attracted zones in Baghdad city. Al-Mansour neighborhood is a commercial center in Baghdad city, which highly attract people from various zones. Limited parking spaces are provided in this area leads to appearance of traffic problems. Al-Mansour neighborhood is the study area that was chosen for surveying its parking (off-street parking). The purpose of the study is evaluating of characteristics of off street parking in Al-Mansour city. Four parking was selected, three located nearby AL-Mansour Mall and the others nearby Babylon Mall. From the results showed that PI of P4 is 103.33%, that mean demand is more than supply. The license plate method is used for collected data that used in assessing characteristics of parking in area such as parking duration, peak hours and parking turnover. Two kinds of data are collected, first about site characteristics, and the second is about parking vehicles accumulation sketch. Collected data in this study is from surveying each park for two days at PM period, all the data collected manually.