by Mr. A.
Shankar, JLL India
India, the second
most populated country in the world houses more than 4 crore vehicles and is
the only country which saw a growing car sales even during the recession and
recorded the highest sales volume during 2009 and 2010.
Since it has a strong
domestic market, the growth is expected to be sustainable and increase over the
next few years since India’s car per capita ratio is currently among the lowest
in the world’s top 10 auto markets.
However
infrastructure available for the vehicles like roads parking spaces have been a
challenge in most the Indian cities.
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| A. Shankar, Head - Strategic Consulting (Chennai, Coimbatore) JLL India |
Indian cities face
severe problem of congestion due to runway growth of personalized vehicles. The
traffic management in the many cities is marked by introduction of a series of
one-way traffic system.
Demand for parking
The one - way traffic
system has, however, implications on pedestrian safety and fuel consumption.
One-way traffic is generally desirable when there are complementary roads and
the additional traveling distance is not more than 300 m as per IRC.
Hence whenever such
systems are introduced, the interests of public transport modes and pedestrians
are duly addressed.
Demand for parking in
the CBD areas of Indian cities is twice the supply. Acute shortage of parking
supply is witnessed in commercial areas and indiscriminate parking impedes free
flow of traffic and cause accidents.
Automatic
multi-storey car parks provide lower building cost per parking slot, as they
typically require less building volume and less ground area than a conventional
facility with the same capacity.
However, the cost of
the mechanical equipment within the building that is needed to transport cars
internally needs to be added to the lower building cost to determine the total
costs.
Robot
trolley...
Other costs are
usually lower too, for example there is no need for an energy intensive
ventilating system, since cars are not driven inside and human cashiers or
security personnel may not be needed.
Automated car parks rely on similar technology
that is used for mechanical handling and document retrieval. The driver leaves
the car in an entrance module. It is then transported to a parking slot by a
robot trolley.
For the driver, the
process of parking is reduced to leaving the car inside an entrance module.
About the author
Mr. A. Shankar is
Head - Strategic Consulting (Chennai, Coimbatore, Colombo) at JLL India
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