Developing a relationship between land use and parking demand for the center of the Holy City of Karbala

Abstract EN

Car parking generation considers as the main parameter for estimating the car parking demand.

However, developing a relation to correlate such demand with car parking generation is in high demand for any city, where such relation, of course, different from city to city.

In this paper, the relation between the car parking demand and land use have been determined for the center of the holy city of Karbala.

Whereas, the land uses were designated into: residential, heritage, commercial, educational, governmental, public, religious and health.

Then, the demand was determine from a representative sample for each land use facility.

Moreover, additional date were collected for the visitors whom used the current car parking at AM, and PM periods and at peak hours for a normal day.

Form such vital data, a model of a relation between the type of land use and car parking generation have been established.

Such relation can be a vital element of the highway mode of the transportation network in the city Karbala.