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Written By idontspam - 2 September, 2010
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200 crore for vehicle parking in the BBMP budget and not a mention of charging for the same? @ 5 lakhs per parking meter (Brigade road type) installed every 100 meters one can get 4000 meters & paid parking on 400 kms of roads in Bengaluru for this amount. I am hoping that should cover the CBD and more.
if you assume 10 rupees per hour and the slots are occupied 20 hours a day, there will be around 14 lots per 100 mtrs. So the possible collection amount per day becomes 1.12 crores which translates to a break even in 6 months(non discounted). 20 rupees per hour should get you 200 crores of meter expense alone in 3 months. BBMP can make a killing here. I am sure the cost of the meter will come down if we are looking at 4000 meters instead of the 8 bought for brigade road.
If a parking inspector covers 4km an hour a 2 shift 20 hour schedule will need around 10 inspectors to cover 400 kms. Tow trucks & other ticketing equipment makes up for non recurring cost.
Leave parking buildings to private parties, if there is business sense they will invest. Put that 200 crores on parking ticket machines for CBD, it will mean the first step towards congestion charging. Second step will be corridor/perimeter pricing.
Here is a case study of how other cities have profited from this. Some quotes from the linked case study
Without the income provided by parking, city taxes would have to rise by about 4% or 5%.
People pay 99% of the time
Citizens who work downtown are being urged to take the bus or subway.
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idontspam - 2 December, 2011 - 09:00
We are also planning on introducing monthly passes to vehicle users, which allows them to park vehicles on any street in Bangalore. Passes will be issued by the Palike. Commuters can avoid paying money to people who collect money illegally
Sounds good, pay & display is the way to go. I wish they graded the pass by zones & issued different colored ones. simplistically the zones can be approximately concentric rings extending outwards from CBD area, with CBD parking being charged more & the outermost ring being charged less. Or you can define zones by parking volume where even if the area (like the IT parks) are on the outer reaches it has higher parking/traffic volume & hence charged like CBD
Alternatively the pass can be prepaid electronic like the metro cards which can be tapped on meters at the end of the street to deduct charge based on the zone.
On-street parking, viable only if driven by technology
Sanjeev - 24 August, 2013 - 10:15
Your mobile beeps, an App alerting you about a parking slot round the corner that has just been vacated. One touch, and you have paid and reserved that space to be occupied within the next 10 minutes.
Networked to a central server, feeding real-time data accessed by mobile devices, thousands of car and two-wheeler parking slots could just turn ultra tech-savvy. But only if the parking policy - currently on the drawing boards -- adopts the technology, a version of which is to be launched soon in the City by a leading parking management system.
Faced with inadequate off-street, multi-level parking lots, the policy on the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) agenda would have to rely heavily on finite on-street parking spaces. But this can work only with a technology-driven, dynamic system far advanced than the rudimentary ones now in operation on Brigade Road and Commercial Street.
“The mode of parking fee payment should be flexible, through card or cash; the machines should be networked to a central command system to make the collection systems transparent and monitor usage patterns,” explained N Sathyanarayanan from the Central Parking Services (CBS).
Parking network
CBS currently manages parking slots for 10,000 cars and 8,000 two-wheelers at the Bengaluru International Airport (BIA), Baiyyappanahalli and SV Road Metro Stations besides several malls, IT firms and corporate hospitals. The BIA parking lot handles 2,800 cars, the capacity of which is expected to increase by 10 per cent after the ongoing Terminal-1 expansion. On completion of Namma Metro phase-1, 12 more stations will have parking lots.
The Palike could look at the CBS network and its soon-to-be-launched Mobile App as a pilot, for city-wide applications. “The App will have GPS connectivity and will link to parking lots from different zones.
We already have a connection with the City traffic police B-Trac server, where they send a query to our server and pull out information from the database. The information then flashes on the B-Trac website. Right now, this link has only limited functionality without an App,” said Sathyanarayanan. The CBS App will be part of a comprehensive upgrade of its server, to be ready in 15 days.
Monitoring usage patterns
By adopting a networked parking system with a central command, BBMP could remotely monitor usage patterns. Tracking parking slot use based on zones, roads and days of the week, the Palike could fix differential rates. The technology allows this, although a move to fix such a differential system for peak hours and weekends in the parking policy was turned down by the State government.
Recently, the government had approved a parking policy for Bangalore along with other city corporations in the State. The Palike had earlier given its nod for the policy with a few modifications, after the Directorate of Urban Land Transport submitted a draft. The Transport Training Institute and Consultancy is now expected to come out with a parking action plan by this year-end.
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/352931/on-street-parking-viable-only.html
Kolkatta paid parking underground on PPP mode
Sanjeev - 5 July, 2014 - 12:13
Very much impressed by the way project and revnue sharing linked to recovery of expenditure.
Also it has used space below road.
http://www.niua.org/projects/tpt/KOLKATA%20CAR%20PARKING%20SYSTEM.pdf
Any one has experience about this.
With BBMP elections over, street paid parking will it come back
Sanjeev - 4 September, 2015 - 12:51
With BBMP in very much need of funds, Street Paid parking should help Corporation to get some financial relief and will help people to use more public Transport.
Same time, Advertisment revenue for BBMP should jump in multiple times if the Commissioner acts in good interest.
idontspam - 2 November, 2011 - 13:27
The major responsibility, however, has been placed on the BBMP which according to the policy statement will be in charge of carrying out necessary studies for a consistent framework including area level planning and development proposals.
The BBMP is also expected to fix parking prices
I hope this is only the minimum rates, maximum rates should be left to the parking service povider.
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