Beijing-parking-ITDP-China

Xinhe areaXinhe Jiayuan is a residential development in the west of Guangwai Jiedao and is surrounded by four streets: ChamaBeijie, Malianidao Lu, Chama Jie and Chayuan Lu. The full-day on street survey shows high rates of illegal parking onstreets, sidewalks and setbacks, and high parking demand on the setback outside the building on the east and southside where parking is formalized. Parking demand fluctuates throughout the day with the peak demand at 3.30pm. Theunderground parking has high vacancies though and can absorb all illegal and setback parking demand.250parking demand20015010050151149 138128 144 159 144 157170185191 176172168 174 178 194195 178 163149141129154127 122 127 136121 131550total parking demandformal on-street parking supplyThe survey in the streets around Xinhe Jiayuan finds that 49% of the cars park on the setback, 47% of all parked vehiclespark on the street and 4% on the sidewalk. The survey also finds out that 61% of the cars park for less than 2 hours andthe average parking duration is 2.51 hours, which indicates that most of the cars parking here are for short-termparking. Therefore, if better enforcement is conducted, setback parking and sidewalk parking could be removed.Nevertheless, there is still quite a few long-term parking that 16% of the cars park for more than 8 hours, which is toolong for on street parking.49%47%on streetsidewalk16%10%13%39%8hrBeijing Parking, ITDP-China 711 March 2015