Abstract:
All mega cities of the world are characterized by huge population, congested road with heavy
traffic etc. Dhaka the capital city of Bangladesh, being one of them also possesses all these
characteristics. The road network of Dhaka city has been developed without any transportation
planning. The city is severally affected by uncontrolled and unauthorized parking of vehicles.
Haphazard parking of vehicles not only reduced the capacity of road it also reduced the
productivity of network.
Proper parking policy is the key to the traffic problems of an urban area. In the parking policy for
the Dhaka Metropolitan Development Plan Area regulation are not very transparent and users are
ignorant of such regulations. First multistoried parking in Dhaka is started at 24 Motijheel. But
the facility failed to attract parker Poor conditions of on-street August 2006 at parking present in
different area of Dhaka are also noticeable and from field survey the conditions are shown by the
photographs.
On-street parking should be strictly regulated. Regulations must be transparent and widely
publicized. Users should be made aware of the penalties that would be imposed in case of
violations. High on-street parking charge should impose to discourage unnecessary trip and onstreet
parking policy available but it has never been implemented. The policy needs to be reviewed and revised and put into practice.
