Capacity and delay produced by parking operating system

Abstract

One of the justifications for planning integrated activities is the particular area of the land and its efficiency. Every journey concludes with a look for a parking lot. Therefore, it is important provide adequate parking spaces for vehicles. This is a complicated issue as it cost land spaces at significant areas like city centers. The standard parking provides normal spaces so as no other vehicles can prevent or delay the drivers to leave when finish their duty.   At Al-Diwaniyah city center, most private parkings manage their work by forcing drivers to leave the vehicle’s key inside vehicles so as the parkings workers can reduce the stopping spaces and increase the capacity of the parking.  This will cause a delay to drivers when they want to leave the parking later due to informal stopping inside the park.    This work examines the effect of leaving the key inside vehicles when stopping on the capacity of parkings and delay that causes for drivers.   The results of analyzing data from nine parking reveals that the capacity will significantly increase with a range from 19 to 89% while causing average delay ranged from 81 to 114 sec with a maximum delay of 240 sec.