Parking Problems in Khartoum Center

Abstract

Lack of parking policy has become one of the most important aspects of transportation. The parking issue is trending all around the world especially in Central Business District (CBD). Metropolitan cities are affected mainly by this problem. Khartoum is one of metropolitan cities in Sudan which is also affected by the parking problems. Insufficient off-street parking facilities and tendency to park the vehicles near to the destination lead to high parking demand. The vehicle ownership and the poor quality of transit system are also the reasons for increase in demand. These factors result in reduction of the main carriageway width, decrease in flow speed and creates unnecessary congestion to traffic flow which creates cruising of parking. Proper parking design and management policy should be implemented to control the demand. In this research, parking demand in Khartoum CBD have been studied in order to estimate the availability of parking spaces by measuring the length of the road, the width of the road, the number of major intersections and their type control, kerb height, physical obstructions and forbidden areas and the general traffic characteristics of each road that govern the selection of reasonable type of on-street parking. Forty seven (47) streets in Khartoum CBD have been selected as the case study, four of them were fully observed as a pilot zone, these are Elbaladyah Street, Elgamhoryah Street, Alqasr Street and Abdulmuniem Street. Some field works were conducted like survey works with real coordinates include full plan of the street, kerb height, intersection details, existing Off-street parking and Photographs representing its condition. The analysis, calculations, design and drawings were carried out in addition to conclusion and recommendations of parking regulation as a tool of Traffic Management policy in Khartoum CBD were mentioned at the end chapter of this thesis.