Parking demand associated with integrated healthcare services

Traffic Design Group Limited has been involved in a number of projects in the Auckland region providing traffic engineering advice with regard to a number of healthcare facilities. When surveyed, healthcare facilities were found to exhibit varying levels of parking demands, which was particularly different from what the relevant District Plan required the healthcare services to provide. It was found that simply applying the District Plan requirement does not accurately assess the actual parking demand and an alternative method of parking prediction should be investigated.