Parking Management – A Challenge for a Sustainable Transportation in Tirana

The rapid growth of the transportation sector during the last decade in Albania has created many problems particularly in Tirana such as air pollution, energy consumption, and loss of urban ‘living space’. Different from the traditional approach, where supply is always provided to meet demand, the sustainable transportation is environmentally sensible, society fair, and economically sound. Therefore, the need for a detailed and comprehensive transport policy, to encourage sustainable transport, is essential for Tirana. One of the most crucial transportation management strategies that can be regarded to achieve more sustainable transportation system is parking management. The objective of this research was to study the nature and level of the parking problem and to evaluate the impact of parking management regulations enforced by Tirana Municipality in 2015. In order to accomplish this, a license plate survey for the selected pilot study area was performed. Next, two parking management strategies, parking pricing and parking duration limitation were decided for the pilot study area. The results of the analysis showed that approximately 39% of the on-street parking demand could be decreased due to parking pricing and parking duration limitation strategy applied at the same time