TYPES OF PARKING
- 1. JUST PARK AND FLY TYPESOF PARKING: Parking is not just the driveway to home there areseveral differenttypes of parking facilities related to parking. PARKINGLOTS: Parking lots are areas that arelabeled for parking. These areas are usually marked out with thick lines maybe yellow or white. You can usually find parking lots near restaurants, officesand supermarketsetc. These parking lots are mostly opened all the time for everyone, butother parking lots are not opened for everyone anytime like Airportcar parking spaces you have to book those parking lots for your car. Parkingspaceson thesidesof thestreet: These spaces are on the sides of the road identified for parking and you can clearly identified them because of yellow and white thick lines which shows the parking boundaries. Angle Parking: Angle parking you can assume this parking from the namethis is done in many places, cause of angled parking vehicles are designated to go one way. Perpendicular Parking: Perpendicular parking isa common parking plot you will find it in most parking places, which normallyprovidespaces marked in a 90 degree angle to the curb or a building. ParallelParking:
- 2. ParallelParking is simple when you parkyour car between two cars. IllegalParking: This is the kind of parking you should avoid and this parking includes, highways parking (if indicated otherwise), in an intersection and on pedestrian crosswalks or sidewalks. Most importantin frontof driveways, in an underpassor bridgeand a spot reserve for disabled and one more doubleparking you should avoid all this kind of parking otherwise you have to face trouble. Effectsof parking: Parkingis very importantit controls the congestion and accidents in traffic parking has the following adverse effects like accidents, pollution, obstruction to fire-fighting operationsetc. 1. Congestion parking the vehicles covers considerablestreet space which leads to small roadsspace. Due to this the speed of all vehicles will be reduced, as a result of slow speed the 2. Journeytime and delay will increase. This situation cause increase in the running cost of the vehicle which leads to extra fuelloss and great economical loss. 3. Accidents happensall the time due to wrong and Careless parking and unparking. These accidents arereferred to as parking accidents. These parking accidents usually happen while driving out a car from the parking area, opening of the car doorswithout looking out, and while parking the car in parking lot. 4. Environmental pollution. Parking cause environmentalpollution due to starting cars again and again. They also effect the beautifullook of the buildings because there are carsparked at every available space which look really bad.
- 3. 5. Parked vehicles create a huge problemsfor firefighting vehicles. The firefighting vehicles cannotreach to buildings. Sometimes they block access to hydrantsand access to buildings.