Journal of Korean Society of Transportation ISSN:1229-1366(Print) 2234-4217(Online) 대한교통학회지

Recently, parking problem has arisen due to an increase in the number of vehicles and insufficient supply of parking lots. This problem occurs tremendously in old downtown residential areas. Problems like insufficient supply of parking lots due to parking on both site of the streets and illegal parking such as visit parking happen regularly. To solve these problems, some municipalities are implementing Residential Parking Permit Program (RPPP), which provides parking permit for nearby residents. The RPPP system provides a parking space for specific applicants, such as residents and merchants, for a certain period of time, so only permitted vehicles can park. However, the problem with RPPP is sometimes parking lots provided to the permitted vehicles are left unattended. Thus preventing other vehicles to park even if there are available parking spaces. Accordingly, this study suggests a new method called Block type RPPP to solve the problems and increase parking efficiency. This method address parking space as parking zones instead of parking lots and the parking zones classify into “RPPP’s Exclusive Zone” which dedicated for permitted vehicle and “Visitor’s Share Zone” for unauthorized vehicles such as visitors. Therefore, this study investigates the number of RPPP parking vehicle, illegal parking, and dishonest parking in the places where RPPP is implemented and compares the existing RPPP system with the block type RPPP system. As a result by a simulation using the VISSIM, Block type RPPP system increased the parking efficiency compared to the existing RPPP system.