دراسة واقع مواقف المركبات في مدينة الحلة

Abstract

Finding a suitable vehicle parking place is considered one of the most common problems in big and median cities. Hilla is a median city in Iraq, which had, in a short time, a noticeable increase in population and it expanded widely, but the design of governmental and office buildings (centering in the old part of Hilla with high rate of demand on parking ) did not take into consideration the importance of vehicle parking to avoid conflict with the movement of vehicles and pedestrians. This research deals with the actual vehicle parking of two important parks in Hilla city called Al Mowahad park and Bab Al Hussaien park, through preparating a survey sheet to get information about the area of the Buildings, the number of vehicles, number of available vehicle parking , and comparing with vehicle parking standards of few big and median cities and by using procedure in this research for evaluation of study parks. It showed that two parks do not suit what these standard have involved. Then results, conclusions and final proposals are registered, the most prominent were the necessity of providing enough areaa for vehicle parking, according to the standards used for cities similar to Hilla city, search must be done in order to find local standards that fulfill the present and future needs for such kind of Cities.