Eighth International Conference on The Constructed Environment

Abstract

In spite of the role of parking space and lots in the built environment, there is still inadequate planning and legal backing for parking space and lots as a special land use on its own. In view of this, the study examines spaces, parking space, and lots in the built environment of Lagos mega-city with a view to suggest solutions to parking and parking space scenarios in the mega-city. This study purposely adopts pictograph for graphic analysis and questionnaire for statistical analysis. The result of the findings confirms an absence of recorded evidence concerning the volume of parking lots, number of parking spaces required in different locations within the mega-city, and parking law and regulations in Lagos mega-city. Parkers spend an average of ten minutes searching for spaces or parking lots. Commuters also spend an extra twenty minutes on the road due to traffic. Although traffic officers discharge their duties, the study further reviewed that the number of automobiles are going geometrically while spaces and parking space is going arithmetically, thus increasing the parking search within the built environment of Lagos mega-city. The study recommends the need to separate parking from circulation i.e. parking space as a separate land use. Likewise, the city managers and other stakeholders involved should create an atmosphere that will push and pull the resident to commuters with bus rapid transit and conclude that the city managers should invest in parking infrastructure development as a means of solving and meeting parking demand of resident of Lagos mega-city.