Car Parking Space In Hosanna Town (Case Of Arada Sub City), Hadiya Zone, Snnprg

Abstract

Car parking is stopping of the car at the end of the journey or at the destination of the place where driver moved and Car parking space is also paved or unpaved place of spacefic place for parking purpose as individual or group parking of car. Nowadays in Hosanna Town, many challenges are mainly concerned with the shortage of Car parking space provision on the transportation system especially in the study area in Arada Sub City. Such as Traffic congestion due to imbalance of on-street Car parking space and increasing the number of different vehicles from time to time and their flow on 15-meter existing main asphalt Road, Traffic accident due to the traffic Congestion, idle of the drivers by waiting for parking space, fuel consumption and Obstruction to firefighting operations were known in Study area. To determine and measure the above challenges on the Town, the existing car parking space provision, parking space problems, parking space selection criteria on the town, and effects by the shortage of car parking space provision on the transport system had analyzed based on the structured and semi-structured questionnaire, Interview, and direct purposively selected congested and CBD area 500meter on-street Asphalt and five Hotels and parking provision system observation had been surveyed on this study. Qualitative and quantitative data collection methods had used to get primary and secondary data. The main part of Car parking space provision on the transport system had to analyze the factors affecting the provision of the parking space, those were parking angles, size of the vehicles, circulation system, and some vehicles that were parked were counted by license plate survey method from seven respective weekdays and weekends and as result researcher, determined that the accumulation rate and efficiency on the 500meter asphalt road that had selected by the researcher judgmentally by the road congestion and business center of the town taken as the criteria. But, even the analysis shows the on-street parking was efficient, depending on the Analyses of seven days counting of the traffic duration, the researcher concluded the following option, in addition to the result from the questioner, interview and field observations, the off-street car parking space provision recommendation had prepared as the urban design intervention to bring accessibility for all parking as the option.