Analysis and Selection of Optimal Zones for the Construction of Public Parking Lots in Ilam City

The use of public parking lots is one of the essential uses in cities which its proper locating leads to citizens’ traffic and welfare. Paying attention to building just more public parking lots and not considering neighboring land uses and other vital factors in their locating result in reducing the quality of parking lot efficiency in relation to on-time traffic. The most important problems in giving services to public parking lots are the improper distribution of them and limitations of their action. Ilam City is surrounded by the mountains from three geographical directions so it does not have much potential to develop. In addition to high concentration of population in central areas in Ilam City, there is lack of good planning in decentralizing the economic, educational, recreation and health areas. Hence there is heavy traffic in Ilam City. In modern urban contexts and areas, the volume of traffic and congestion has been very low, the width of sidewalks has been very narrow and the number of parking areas alongside the sidewalks has been very small. As a consequence, proper locating of appropriate parking lots is of high importance in Ilam City and the present study will be notable. So the aim of this paper is to investigate the analysis and locating the proper areas to build public parking lots in Ilam City