Geospatial Study on the Parking Demand Management in Kigali City, Rwanda

Today’s traffic movements in Kigali-city experience the traffic jams especially during demand peak hours when a great number of vehicles moving in the streets are being disturbed by vehicles parked along the curbs of the streets with inadequate width to serve as a roadway and parking at the same time. There are also other vehicles parked illegally causing traffic congestion in the streets and disturbing the services provided according to the land use. This study aims to conduct a parking demand assessment on parking facilities available in Nyarugenge CBD, making the parking inventory study and land use study so that the results of those studies are used in providing an effective parking management tool to reduce traffic jam issues related to inadequate usage of on street parking facilities. Both public on street and off-street parking facilities have been surveyed and the results show that the average level of usage of on street parking is 83.35% while that of off-street parking is 65%. The results also show that longer jam moments occur in hours where on street parking facilities are at high level of usage (around midday) and the jam recorded with longest time has been found to spend 92 seconds