Aim: To encourage drivers to chose other forms of mobility such as public transport

(1)

The

daily

conflict

for

drivers

:

Endless

searching

for

a

public

parking

space

or

the

decision

to

pay

for

an

expensive

garage

?

(2)

Main Problem

–

Shortage

of Parking

Spaces

in

Cities

Fact:

Very limited space for parking in densely populated areas

Aim:

To encourage drivers to chose other forms of mobility such as public

transport

Limit:

Restrictive policy of public parking connected with high priced

private garages

Hypothesis:

Even the best advertised garages (which are also not ideal) are not

adequate substitutes for the limited public parking spaces

Consequence:

(3)

Parking

Behaviour

,

ÖAMTC

-

Survey

The requirements of residents, commuters, other

drivers and local economy to static traffic

ÖAMTC-Online-Survey

June 2009 on driver and parking behaviour in

the city:

•

37 per cent try to find a parking space closest to the destination

•

20 per cent use a parking space 1 to 2 blocks away from the

destination

•

12 per cent park in quieter districts and then walk

•

12 per cent drive directly to a car park

•

6 per cent drive to the nearest tram or underground station and

use public transport within the city

•

12 per cent only use the public transport systems to reach the city

(4)

Information system for garages reasonable?

Decision-situation

Â The parking charge generally militates in favour of the parking lot.

Â The efforts for the information search is similar for both alternatives.

They can be reduced similar-intensively with both alternatives by an information search.

Â The efforts for the parking-lot search is situation-dependent and can be high or low in both cases. BUT: A garage is going to be found much easier than a free short-term parking-zone by an information search.

Â An information system that considers both alternatives speaks altogether in favour of the garage. Short-term parking zone Parking garage The common alternatives

Rather than other Rather than other Efforts for information search

(Charge, time limit, etc.)

Situation-dependent (Parking lot)

Situation-dependent (Garage location) Efforts for parking-lot search

Rather low Rather high Parking charge

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Differences between business or private

appointments?

Are there any differences in parking behaviour between people who drive to business or private appointments (doctors, friends, attending an event)?

30 30 32 27 29 41 24 70 70 68 73 71 59 75 Total I try I prefer searching In the city

I am automatically aiming at the next parking garage

I am driving to the public transportation stop

I am only going by public transportation to/through the city

Yes No no Answer n= 545 204 111 64 65 32 67 Data in %

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•

What demands do consumers have on short-term

car parks?

•

Are there special desires for long-term car parks?

•

What are the negative preconceptions?

!

The following comes from the OAMTC´s years of

experience, not from the actual survey:

The following headwords can only give a rude impression of the multitude of answers to the question „use a garage or not?“

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Public or Private Parking?

Criteria for the choice between public and private parking:

subjective weighing of interests:

personal criteria such as weather, clothing or time pressure

common trends:

More than 50 per cent of people chose private garages to save time and nerves.

Out of the people who drive directly to public garages three quarters are male and 68 % of them have a parking space at home, not on the street. Overall these people drive daily and more then 80 % of the regular users of garages are male and over 40 years old.

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Knowledge of offers

• No or too little knowledge of offers and conditions

• Little information about connections with public transport systems • Shortage (natural or man-made) in the public parking area

• Missing knowledge of the exact course of the short-term parking zones‘ periphery („being on the safe side drive into the garage“)

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Qualities of garages

• Basic distrust to the unkown

• Confirmation of unfavourable expectations by insufficient service • Moment of surprise („not that bad at all“)

• Experience of advantages (e.g. by protection atmospheric influences)

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Expectations of garages

Cost-benefit relation (time and money)

• Underestimation of the own kilometre costs for parking-lot search traffice • Amount of parking charges themselves

• Leaps of costs with short-term parking in garages

• Risk reduction, especially protection of the own vehicle with upcoming thunderstorm or major events

• Sparing the risk of penalisation for deliberate or undeliberate violation of parking in unknown districts

• Sparing the risk of timeout with short-term parking zones • Saving in time by short parking-lot search

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Approaches of resolution

Assistance, approaches of resolution

• More information by intelligent transportation system and better multimodal traffic-carrier information (ITS, PAMMOS, Boku, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna etc.)

• Finding and clear communication of fair-sensed tariffs

• Synergies with traffic carriers like use of shopping centres (e.g.offer of limited free parking)

• Quality offensive that keeps what it promises (indivually addressing of target groups) • Systematic search for improvement capabilities

Involvement of science (e.g. List Sponsorship Award)

• Specification of quality standards even against emotional prejudices, not only technical building regulations, aiming at quality improvements of the existing

• Prescinding garages out of the dubious light of being polluters, because the parking-lot search traffic is limited, cold starting is reduced and noise exposure is decreased.

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PAMMOS: Function chart of the

complete system

Municipality Garage operator Car driver Central server Central accountancy firm

Cash flow from user to parking-lot provider

Information flow by alternative parking possibilities at the user‘s location with charge and time limit Information flow by realised user‘s parking procedures with incurred charges

Parking-lot provider

Parking-lot user Localisation by GPS

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Conclusions

Summary, conclusions

• Local and target-group orientated market research • Modern and flexible methods of accountancy

• Quality standards that do not only approach the „licensability!“ as minimum criteria • but also the emotional level!

• Offer-orientated transport policy, also with the motor-driven individual traffic • Prevention of restrictions and enforcement