Open AccessInvestigating hospital parking demand characteristics in Iraq: Al-Sadar Hospital as case study
Author(s) -
Hamid Athab Al-Jameel,
Husam Abdul Ridha Hasnawi,
Mohammed Abbas Al-Jumaili
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/737/1/012124
Subject(s) - parking space , trips architecture , parking lot , transport engineering , business , value (mathematics) , space (punctuation) , medical emergency , medicine , computer science , engineering , civil engineering , statistics , mathematics , operating system
Al-Sadar Hospital is an effective medical center in Al-Najaf city in Iraq, which serves up to 1200 patients. This study has focused on two types of data from this hospital viz. general information and filed data about parking vehicles. A drone has also been used for collecting field data in this study in addition to direct interviews with people and manual counts for both traffic volume and parking vehicles. The duration for parking vehicles was long. The investigated trips are from the same city and from other cities or provinces. According to the results of analysis for both data and information, it was found that the number of parking spaces available (legal and illegal) for each bed was one space which, is less than the default value (2.2 spaces for each bed). On the other hand, the required spaces for employees are also less than the default value (4.3). The results indicate that there is an urgent need for increasing the number of parking spaces to match the demand for the parking vehicles.