Mazaher Ahmadi Baseri , Dr Reza Mokhtari Malekabady, Dr Mehdi Momeni, Volume 29, Issue 3 (12-2014)
Abstract
The rapid growth of urbanization in the world has led to centralization، intensity and speed of urban life; in addition، the lack of efficient public transport system that is responsive to the needs of citizens has led to an increase in the use of private vehicles and consequently has increased the demand for parking in cities and has caused heavy and severe traffic in cities. Furthermore، the use of traditional designs in the construction of parking and illogical distribution of parking spaces in cities and inappropriate parking locating has increased such problems. The main reason for the irregularities in current state of parking lots in Isfahan Metropolis returns to inappropriate locating، unfair distribution and the imbalance between population and land area (per capita) for parking. This issue has slowed down transportation in the city due to marginal parking along the street، double parking and vehicles wandering around to find a parking lot. The purpose of this research is to find the optimal spaces for public parking in district 6 of Isfahan with Geography information system (GIS) and Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) model; in addition، it aims to introduce new designing technologies، build such parking and manage parking spaces. Thus، statistical data related to those organizations as well as documentary and field studies have been used in order to achieve this aim. This research is applied and the methodology of research is analytical، documentary and survey. Data in this study are collected through statistical resources، library، Internet، maps and detailed maps of Isfahan and data obtained from the questionnaires in a combined approach.GIS analysis shows that from 10 public parking in district 6، 5 public parking have been in inappropriate area، 4 public parking in appropriate area and 1 public parking in medium area. Ultimately، we should regard the parking in the region as poorly distributed.
Though city life and machining living of human beings has some advantage and facilities, yet it has caused a lot of problems as city heavy traffic, along with unanticipated growth of population and unusual development of cities, on the one side and the increasing number of motor vehicles on the other to reduce the heavy traffic in central city areas,building public parking in appropriate place seems very effective,it helps traffic to run smoothly and using better the streets and passages and this seems the only way to solve the city traffic.In this article after surveying and studying the not passages and streets and the existing public parking in the city centre area and also studying the capacity of the existing parking,regarding the value of demands for parking by applying AHP model and by using polygon drawing by Tiesen and Buffering Method, I have defined appropriate place to build parking, consequently, this research shows that parking situated in the city centre of Isfahan do not have any balancer distribution and should be paid attention to building new public parking.
