Abstract
In big cities because of the rapid development, parking generation rate has increased rapidly. It has been observed that due to shortage of parking supply, improper use of parking space leads to many parking problem at various location of the city. In the city of Bhopal, a research was done to assess car parking using both qualitative and quantitative methods, as well as to assess compliance to parking regulations. Surveys are performed at 5 sections, both on-street and off-street, typically tourist, commercial and shopping areas of Bhopal. License plate method survey is performed to determine the parking characteristics including parking accumulation, parking turnover, parking load, parking volume, peak parking saturation and parking efficiency. Questionnaire survey is performed to find out potential parameter that influence the parking demand and eventually to establish the parking demand model. In past though plenty of research committed on parking study but a few have integrated bo