Impact of Smart Parking Developments as a Strategy for Addressing Parking Space Supply Problems: The Case of Megenagna and Markato Smart Parkings.
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2022-07
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Addis Ababa University
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Addis Ababa has recently been afflicted by a series of infrastructure and utility problems. The city government implemented the Smart Parking spaceSupply system to address the parking problem, which comprises the construction of multistory parking garages in two locations within densely developed and crowded districts. The performance of the Smart Parking for the surrounding development has been analyzed using both quantitative and qualitative data collection study methods. The study gathered data using a variety of methods, including semi-structured and open-ended surveys, interviews, observation, and mapping using a readily available base map. After that, the data was processed and presented in an Excel spreadsheet. The effectiveness of the present smart parking supply was assessed, and the data of the respondents was analyzed using a data triangulation study design approach. Using the Scott M. Smith technique, the researcher picked 122 respondents purposely: 14 for a neighboring Smart Parking buildings blocks, 101 for SP users (Automobile drivers) on the chosen two sites, and 6 for government expertise, such as offices like (AATMA), (AATB), and (AATP). After triangulating and analyzing the data, the research indicated a supply imbalance in the current smart parking space supply based on demand for parking spaces in surrounding buildings. Dissatisfaction among drivers with the automated steel structure parking system, as well as a lack of attention and poor integration with key government agencies and stakeholders, are all significant hurdles for the new SP development. As a result, its overall effects on city parking supply demand appear to be negligible, based on current MSP and MAMSP space supply around the CBD and THC based on empirical real city traffic volume evidence. It is also recommended that, the needs of clearwritten car parking supply developments strategy and policy which will align with theobjectives of significant parking facility supplies based on supply demand. The study will also help and encourage forfurther investigation to other researchers.
Keywords: Smart Parking, Supply demand, and congestion