Beijing-parking-ITDP-China

This section describes the case studies done indifferent parts of Beijing. The selected sites, surveymethodology, case study descriptions and resultsare presented.3.1 Case study site selectionThe team visited sites in many parts of Beijingand selected study areas for detailed surveys inareas with different land uses (commercial, office,residential – high-end, mid-end and hutong – andmixed land use) to document parking issues thatare representative for a large part of Beijing. Alldaysurveys, both for on-street and off-street wereheld at different locations in Beijing and shownbelow.Two main areas studied are Guang’anmen(Xicheng district) and Guomao (Chaoyangdistrict). Guomao is chosen as it is the centralbusiness district of Beijing with large investmentin new developments and extensive traffic congestion.Following BTRC’s suggestion, Guang’anmenwas chosen since parking reform is under planningin this area and recommendations for Beijingcould be included in this project.Other areas selected are the Cheniandianmechanical parking, Liufang metro station.Parking surveys were carried out during weekdaysin September and October 2014.3.2 Survey methodology3.2.1 On-street parkingGoal of the surveys is to document existing parkingpractices. Studied are:●●parking demand – documentation of thenumber of cars parking on different streetsthroughout the day;●●parking supply - documentation of thenumber of officially marked on-street andsetback parking supply per street section●●parking location – documentation of the locationof parked cars, distinguishing betweenon-street, sidewalk and setback;●●parking occupancies, turnovers and durationsare derived from the survey data above.Step 1: prepare routes and survey formsAll streets surveyed are divided up into 1 hourroutesfor each surveyor. Each route then isdivided up into sub-sections, with the border ofSelected sites for case studiesBeijing Parking, ITDP-China 161 March 2015