Existing Parking System of Kathmandu Metropolitan City

As Kathmandu Metropolitan City has allocated 36 numbers of parking, there we can see the people who were responsible to manage the parking mechanism of their particular area. The parking lot mostly we could see in the side of the road. The parking area were developed from the trend of the people usually parked over there while they moved for shopping or else. During those times there were nobody to take care of those vehicles, and no revenue from parking was collected by the KMC office. But after allocating the parking lots, now KMC is collecting the revenue from the parking.

Mahaboudha-Bhosiko –Piukha-Guccha Tole:

The study area covers almost wholesale market, in core city of the Kathmandu Metropolitan city. In this area almost all the houses ground floor and first are used for the commercial purpose (shop) and from the second floor upwards, go-downs, stores, and other residential purpose. During my survey I could not observe any parking spaces within the houses. In this study area most of the courtyards seen are used either with commercial purpose or for parking spaces.

Within this area the user’s information survey was done. In this survey two types of questionnaire were prepared. One was for shop owners and another was for driver. In this study, we tried to collect the information about the existing problems, their parking behavior, and the safety on existing parking, management of existing parking.

Khichapokhari Area:

Khichapokhari area is highly commercialized area where three Big business complexes, Pasupati Plaza, Peoples complex and RB complex located. Along with these big business complexes, other retail shops, banks, café and communications Centers are located. In this area, all the houses in the road side fully used for the commercial and official purposes. The On street parking seen in this area. Some street vendors can be seen in this area.

This study area was divided into Parking Lot A, Lot B, and Lot C as shown in the map. The overall length of the study area is 213 m. two types of study carried out. They are accumulation count study and Daily average income from each parking lot.

This survey was done to take the accumulation count as well as economic behavior from the parking lots in the CBD. Here the length of particular park was taken and total no of vehicle accumulated in every two hours was noted. The numbers of vehicle arriving and departing was counted.