Of The Supply And Management Of Social And Public Parking Facilities

In recent years, the number of automobiles in cities is rising up, and the popularization of automobiles has really brought great convenience to people's lives. However, at the same time, the lack of city parking utilities has not only caused much inconvenience to drives' daily life, but also further worsened the traffic jams and city environment. And this case is especially true in the city center, where there are insufficient land resources and the automobiles are relatively centralized. Therefore, how to effectively solve the problems such as insufficient public parking utilities and the mal-management of these utilities is a very urgent issue closely related to people's lives.The author firstly presents the significance of the theme and its related background information, by introducing related theories and their applications in terms of investing theories in traffic infrastructure, investing modes in public parking utilities and management in the charges for parking. Also, he attempts to give a further study on public parking utilities by applying the theories related to public products.Then, after making clear what are public parking utilities and their classification, the author gives a further analysis of their semi-public product feature, as well as points out the common principles in the supply and management of the semi-public products. Moreover, he illustrates about the problems and their causes in the construction and management of the present city public parking utilities, by introducing the current conditions about the supply and uses of public parking utilities with the case study on the development of public parking utilities in Wenzhou, a city in Zhejiang province.Lastly, the author expounds about how to optimize the supply and management of the public parking utilities in terms of the utilities planning, construction and management, as well as brings forward a series of measures and proposals about how to facilitate and perfect the development of public parking utilities.With the study on the issue of how to develop the public parking utilities, the author aims that the dissertation may offer some help in relieving or even solving the problems of "parking difficulty" in the cities nationwide.