Linear Programming for Parking Slot Optimization

For the development of any country, transportations play a very vital and planned role, especially for distributing the goods of the progress of all the citizens. Traffic jam is the most common problem in transportation in urban are;s. One of the main causes of traffic jam is making the road diameter smaller for creating street parking on one side of the road. If seen expansively, traffic jam has a great affect. For example, one of the affects is due to extensive usage of fuel which leads to huge amount 'Of financial loss. Therefore, there is a great need for• reducing te traffic jam, and one of them is the problem of on street parking. The onstreet parking is the most serious problem and is the reason for problem of smooth traffic flow.

Yosritzal and Widanengsih did a survey on the demand for parking based on the parking sites: They also recommended that the method of deterioration could be used to ascertain the level of parking area around the hospitals.

• The parking according to the area, has been divided into r,vo groups: street parking and off street parking. PCU (parking control unit) is rhe space for parking vehicles, that depends on the dimension of that vehicle and the added space required for maneuvering the vehicle, depending upon the angle of parking.

•This survey was done at Jln.T.Panglima Polem Peunayong Banda Aceh, and was started in the morning at 7 and went on till 6 in the evening. . The technique of getting geometric data for parking space and the present parking space capacity is taken by measuring the area and space allocation of parking for each vehicle. The data collection for each vehicle which enters and leaves the parking lot along with the parking duration is taken after  making walking field survey along the parking lot and counting the vehicles and the time duration of parking. According th.e field survey data, model evaluation is done by involving the demand of user parking lot to average of accumulation of parking and of the duration of parking.

The average of accumulation of parking is calculated after each 15 minutes for every vehicle. The solution to this problem is to increase the space capacity at Jalan PanglimaPolem in relation to the parking space availability, and meet the requirement of parking lor for each vehicle.

The average of accumulation of parking in every 15 minutes for every vehicle is calculated from the average accumulation divided by the sum of average accumulation for all the vehicles and multiplied by the capacity of the parking space. The outcome of this study shows that the formulation of maximizing the allocation of parking lot gives considerable ,atious results when the formulation regards different viewpoints of the needs and demands of parking.

Maximizing problem occurs on fulfilling all the demands and needs of parking without any possible area in the maximization ..The most significant feature comes within the formulation before taking consideration the other features to look for actual maximum outcome for the problem.

Answer the following question.

Q1. What remedy was taken for solving the problem of parking space at Jalan T. Panglima Polem?

(Hint: to increase the space, the average of accumulation of parking in every 15 minutes for every vehicle is calculated from the average accumulation dhided by the sum of average accumulation for all the vehicles and multiplied by the capacity of the parking space.)

Q2. Traffic jam is the most common problem in transportation in urban areas. True/False (Hint: True)