PIMPRI - CHINCHWAD MUNCIPAL

CORPORATION PARKING POLICY

Inception Report

Submitted By

August, 2019
Contents
Overview................................................................................................................................................. 4
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 5
Background ......................................................................................................................................... 5
Project Description ............................................................................................................................. 6
On Street Parking Management ........................................................................................................ 6
PCMC Parking Principles .................................................................................................................... 7
Methodology .......................................................................................................................................... 8
Parking Survey .................................................................................................................................... 8
Equivalent Car Space .............................................................................................................................. 9
Parking Restrictions.............................................................................................................................. 10
Road signs and Parking slot Markings ................................................................................................. 10
Enforcement and police involvement ................................................................................................. 10
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1 Detailed map of Pimpri Chinchwad .......................................................................................... 5
Figure 2 Selected Primary Locations from the Study area...................................................................... 9
Figure 3 Equivalent Car Spaces ............................................................................................................... 9
Overview
Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) intends to implement parking policy within
the city limits. This is in accordance of “Institute for Transportation and Development Policy”
(ITDP) and IRC: SP: 12-2015 “Guidelines for Parking Facilities in Urban Areas”.

The Pimpri Chinchwad parking policy will firstly cover highways and major locations of the city
and will tend to internal roads. This parking policy will be Zone based parking management in
which city area will be divided into various zones. Based on Equivalent Car Space (ECS) theory,
vehicles will be charged for every hour of parking and their rates will differ as per the area
demand. Parking rates may vary in peak and odd peak hour. However night parking will be
highly charged. The Important features of PCMC parking policy are formation of zones and
fines over parking violation.

Board objectives of the PCMC policy for parking are discussed below:

1. To provide relief of congestion for improved environment.

2. To reduce parking demand through increased parking cost.
3. To provide public transport for comprehensive mobility.

This inception report highlights the methodology and related tasks of PCMC parking policy.
Introduction
Background
Pimpri Chinchwad is the extended city limits of Pune, Maharashtra situated along the NH-4
(Mumbai- Pune Highway). It is widely spread over an area of 181 square km. The city
developed from the rural suburbs of Pune as a result of rapid industrialization and now
referred as Twin cities. It is about 160 kms from Mumbai, the capital city of Maharashtra and
about 10 kms from Pune. The residing situated at an altitude of 530 m above sea level.
According to 2001 Census India report, the population of pimpri chinchwad was 10 lakh which
has been now reached to 17.29 lakhs by the year 2011 with literacy rate of 90.90%.
Pimpri Chinchwad is well known for its automotive and manufacturing industry and is home
to an immense variety of industrial establishments. Moreover, the development has been
occurring in the west side of the city connecting Mumbai to Pune which comes under PCMC
authority. Pimpri Chinchwad as well as the cantonment areas
of Pune Central, Khadki and Dehu Road together form the urban core of the Pune
Metropolitan Region.
An Urban Local Government, Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporations (PCMC), manages
and governs the twin cities. This administration established in the year 1982 which involves
two major branches- the Executive branch headed by the Municipal Commissioner and the
Deliberative branch headed by the Mayor. The Maharashtra Municipal Corporation Act, 1949
bestows the responsibility of taking care of the public and infrastructural needs of the citizens.
PCMC has good and developed road network. The road network in PCMC area functionally
include arterial roads, sub arterial roads, collector Street and local streets. The total length of
road network is 757km. The Figure 1 below summarizes administrative borderline of Pimpri
Chinchwad.

Figure 1 Detailed map of Pimpri Chinchwad

Project Description
The main objective of the project is to reduce the dependency on private transport and
increase the capacity of public transport network to cope with increasing demand by
approaching parking policy.

This parking policy will be implemented on 14 busy roads of the city. The proposed parking
policy will cover all the BRTS roads, Pimpri Camp, Bhosarigaon, Nashik Phata flyover,
Chinchwad, Pimpri, Kasarwadi, Akurdi railway station area, Dehu Alandi Road, Pradhikaran
area and Bhumkar Chowk to KSB Chowk.
The parking policy will be Zone based parking management in which city area will be divided
into various zones. For instance, at places where there is 80 to 100 per cent demand on any
given day for parking, it will come under Zone A. Likewise, areas with 60 to 80 per cent
demand will be called Zone B, areas with 40 to 60 per cent demand will fall under Zone C and
Zone D will cover areas with parking demand of less than 40 per cent. Based on Equivalent
Car Space (ECS) theory, vehicles will be charged for every hour of parking. Cycles and all types
of school buses shall be exempted from parking charges. Whereas parking will be made
available near hospital, other medical establishments, special areas such as sites of
archaeological importance, at railway stations, bus stations and terminal.
As per the CMP proposal, the approach will be to permit on-street parking at designated
locations, where sufficient RoW (Right of Way) is available. Parking will be permitted on a
Arterial roads whose RoW is 24m or more and for Sub-Arterial roads whose RoW 12m to 24m.
The lack of available parking and the price one has to pay for it are powerful incentives for
people to use alternative modes of transport.

On Street Parking Management

 On street parking spaces shall be designed as per IRC: SP: 12-2015.

 Care shall be taken to eliminate the conflicts between pedestrians, cyclists and
vehicles while planning for on street parking spaces.
 The safety and efficiency of the road shall be maintained throughout.
 While demarking on street parking spaces, carrying capacity of the road shall be taken
into consideration.
 While designing streets, priority shall be given to the movement of pedestrians,
cyclists, public transport, public spaces and then motor vehicles. Parking will be
accommodated in the remaining street space.
 Areas up to 50 m from intersections on all arms and other critical locations shall be
kept free from parking and other encroachments.
 Parking shall be prohibited up to 3 metres on both sides of pedestrian crossings with
appropriate road markings showing boundary of parking lots and 'No parking zone'.
 Parallel parking configuration shall be adopted for all three-wheeled and four-
wheeled vehicles including motor cars, light commercial vehicles (LCV), buses and
trucks.
 Perpendicular parking configuration shall be adopted for motorised two wheelers as
well as bicycles. Only single lane parking shall be allowed for any on street parking lots.
PCMC Parking Principles
Principles for PCMC parking policy document are enlisted below

The Demand
Standards
Approach
Parking standards are set to meet the required demand.

The two-part and Parking within a premise is set to meet only operational (minimal)
Operational levels of demand, which can be taken as the private parking needs
Standards of occupants. Other parking is catered to via public-sector off-site
Approach parking, often with the help of payment levied on the developer.

The Capacity
Rationing
Standards for whole area or corridor are set (as maximums)
Approach considering the road capacity available for newly generated traffic

This approach explicitly seeks to weigh up multiple policy priorities

The Area Needs for an area for setting the standard, including traffic demand,
Approach management of public spaces and urban design, economic
development policies, environmental considerations, etc

The Modal Split This uses parking supply as a tool to modify travel behaviour in
Target approach favour of non-car options by making parking more difficult or
expensive.

The Public This aims to set lower standards at destinations for which
Transport a high proportion of trips can easily be by public transport,
accessibility level while setting higher standards for destinations less
approach accessible by public transport.
Methodology
One of the important and primary task that would be undertaken, reconnaissance survey of
PCMC study area which will cover land use, road system, public transport system and
parking condition and related issues.
To analyse the situation of parking in PCMC in detail, location specific parking surveys shall be
conducted, which will help to understand the existing supply and demand mismatch both for
weekdays and weekends.

Parking Survey
Different sites in the PCMC will be selected. These sites will be mainly located on important
roads, important areas like schools, colleges, hospital, commercial buildings and the areas
along the mobility corridors which have parking demand in current situation. Site survey shall
be done during peak and non-peak hours to know the variation of parking demand in current
situation.
To understand the present parking scenario in the PCMC area, the primary survey will be
conducted, covers parking accumulation, parking duration, parking turnover and parking
inventory.
As the project is to implement parking lots along major mobility corridors; most of the survey
locations will be selected along proposed BRTS routes. Moreover, the busy roads within the
city area will be selected for examining the parking demand.
Three types of surveys i.e. parking inventory, registration plate and In-out survey will be
conducted on selected on-streets and at off-street parking locations.
 Parking Inventory-
It is physical count of existing parking spaces to collect information on the current condition
of parking facilities. This includes:

o The location, condition, type, and number of parking spaces.

o Layout of spaces: geometry and other features.

 Registration Plate Survey-

This survey consists of nothing but the registration numbers of vehicles entering or leaving
survey point located on the cordon line.
 In and Out Survey-
This survey collects information of the vehicles entering of leaving the parking lots.
The selected primary survey locations from the study area are listed and summarized in figure
2 below
Figure 2 Selected Primary Locations from the Study area

Equivalent Car Space

Parking rates will be based on the space occupied by the vehicle and amount of space it
occupies (ECS of vehicle). If a vehicle occupies more than one parking lot, it shall be liable to
pay parking charges of the total number of parking lots it occupies. Parking charges shall vary
in different zones of the city.
ECS (Equivalent Car Space) would be equal to 23 sq. m for open parking, 28 sq. m for parking
on stilts, and 32 sq. m for basement parking. Factors summarized in figure 3 shall be used to
convert other vehicles into equivalent car unit.

Figure 3 Equivalent Car Spaces

Parking Restrictions
PCMC parking implementation will be as per IRC: SP 12 -2015. Parking will be prohibited at certain
locations to ensure safety and convenience. Such locations as:
1. Near Intersections – the capacity of intersection is greatly reduced if vehicles are allowed to
park on the approaches which leads to traffic chaos and huge difficulties for other road
users. As a practice to prohibit parking for a distance of about 50m or more on the
approaches to a major intersection.
2. Near proposed bus stop location – this area will always remain in hustle and bustle of
pedestrian crossing and parking vehicles nearby such vicinity would reduce the network
capacity. Considering this safety aspect for passengers and pedestrians, the section of
length 50m or more on either side of the controlled pedestrian crossing can be considered
as no parking zone.
3. Structures – Structures such as bridges, tunnels and underpass generally have a road way
width less than the highway and for this reason it is desirable to prohibit parking on them
instead of creating bottleneck situation.
4. Entrance Driveways – Vehicles should be prohibited from parking in front of entrances to
building.

Road signs and Parking slot Markings

Required informatory road signboard for parking and markings of the parking slot will be as
per IRC: 67-2012 and IRC: 35-2015
Parking slots demarcation will be implemented in presence of authority.

Enforcement and police involvement

PCMC city traffic police will be responsible for enforcing the regulations concerned with
parking policy. Where there is unacceptable parking the Police will be responsible for removal
of vehicles obstructing the highway or the footpath