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: Pranav Poddar

Director

Suvidha Parklift

With all the major cities in India facing car parking woes, the state governments, local municipal corporations, private architects and the builders are under tremendous pressure to look for innovative ways to provide more and more car parking spaces.

For instance in Delhi, current population is over 1.6 crore. The population density is more than 10,000 persons per square kilometre. In the last 10 years, the population of cars in the national capital has more than doubled and at present, there are 18 lakh cars plying on the roads. One would be surprised to know that for these 18 lakh cars there are only 25,000 dedicated and authorised parking spots. The local authorities are under immense pressure to provide adequate parking facilities.

The solution is Automatic Multilevel car Parking Systems as well as “Conventional Ramp based Multilevel Parking”, which are now available in India to ease this pressure and enable them to maximise the car parking spaces available on the ground. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi alone has identified 14 sites for automatic multilevel parking and over 25 sites for conventional ramp based multilevel parking in various parts of the city. New Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) and Delhi Development Authority (DDA) have also planned to build such multilevel parking lots.

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation also in the process of identifying metro stations where automated as well as conventional ramp based multilevel parking lots will have to be built. The nature of the multilevel parking facility will depend on the location of the metro station of and various other parameters such as commercial/ residential/ industrial density around the stations, existing roads and habitation around the stations.

The Multilevel Car Parking Systems can either be fully automatic or semi-automatic and are suitable for installation in basements and in open spaces outside commercial buildings, residential buildings, shopping malls, and other public places where car parking is required. The most unique feature of these systems is that they can increase the parking space at the ground level substantially, depending upon the kind of car parking system installed and the contours of the space available.