Figure 21: Percentage savings in travel time due to dedicated freight parking

Figure 21: Percentage savings in travel time due to dedicated freight parking

Even at the least double-parking duration of 10 minutes, minimum savings in travel time of ~ 7% can be noticed. If freight vehicles double-parked for the same duration as they would in case of parking at a lot, average saving in travel time resulted is 21.64%. Dedicated freight parking resulted in savings in travel times when compared to all three cases of double parking.

4.6 Emission savings due to dedicated freight parking

Rapid urbanization has led to higher air pollution in cities owing to emissions from factories, industries, households, and vehicles, among many others. Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicles which use fossil fuels emit pollutants like carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, hydrocarbons, and oxides of nitrogen. Increased use of personal vehicles and higher freight trips to meet the demand for goods with the rise in population has worsened the situation. Parking infrastructure influences distance travelled, fuel consumption, cost of transportation, and thereby has a bearing on energy and emissions as discussed in section 2. In the present study emissions (as a function of speed) are compared between double parking and dedicated parking scenarios based on simulation results.

Vehicular emissions from different cases of double parking are compared with dedicated parking scenario in this section. Instantaneous speed of different vehicles from the