Review of Malaysian current practice in supply/demand of parking in the hospital

Abstract

Parking has long been an issue in government hospital, especially the one which are located within urban environment. In view to the fact that private cars are the preferred mode of choice for commuting in Malaysia, the issue could not get any better. This technical paper attempts to evaluate the supply and demand of parking in public hospital. Secondary data are obtained from various parking guidelines. License Plate method is used to collect the parking demand data as a primary data for a period of 12 hours at public hospitals. The actual parking demand is found to be higher than the provided parking space at all public hospitals under investigation. The actual parking demand is found in close trend with parking requirement by JPBD.