Illustrative image (Source: VNA) ảnhHCM City (VNA) - High investment costs and low parking fees have made investors lessinterested in building automated car parking lots in Ho Chi Minh City, expertssaid at a recent workshop.
To cope with the problemsof increasing automobiles and an overloaded car parking system, since 2006, theMinistry of Science and Technology has instructed Nippon Mechanics and CraneCo, Ltd (NMC) to undertake the project of designing and building elevators orautomated parking systems in the country.
The system has a liftingdevice and storage spaces inside to store vehicles efficiently and its capacityis 2-20 times higher than a traditional parking lot if they are built on thesame area of land.
Due to the lack of carparking spaces, many car drivers park on roadsides or drive around to find aplace to park their vehicles worsening congestions in the city.
Therefore, automatedparking systems are considered an ideal solution for major cities in Vietnam,especially Hanoi and HCM City.
However, according toNguyen Thi Bao Quynh, general director of NMC, despite many benefits, it isdifficult to implement such systems in the city due to “unreasonableregulations”.
One of them is theone-price rule for fares. It was introduced in January by the city’sadministration in an attempt to control parking lots that previously forcedcustomers to overpay.
Because the automaticparking system needs huge investment, if the price is too low, investors canhardly realise a profit from their investment.
The monthly charge for carsin the city is currently 1.5 million VND (66 USD) per month or 10,000 VND perentry, while in Hanoi, it costs 3.5 million VND per month or 30,000-40,000 VND perentry, respectively.
“The unreasonably low fareshave caused the number of investments for automated parking systems in HCM Cityto be six times lower than in Hanoi,” Quynh said, adding that “if the low fareis still being applied, the city cannot even build a traditional public parkinglot, not to mention an automated parking system.”
Experts at the workshopagreed with Quynh, saying that increasing the automobile parking fee would notonly encourage investors to invest in building more parking zones but also helplimit the use of personal vehicles.
Sungwon Lee from the KoreaTransport Institute told Thanh Nien (Young People) newspaperthat a hike in prices for vehicles or petroleum would not affect drivers asmuch as a hike in parking fees.
Car-owners might considerusing public transport if they were charged with a large amount of money forcar parking, he said.
“Charging more and usingthe money to build a traffic infrastructure and encouraging the use of publicvehicles instead of owning personal vehicles are among the methods that manycountries have applied, including the Republic of Korea. And they have provedto be effective,” he added.-VNA
To cope with the problemsof increasing automobiles and an overloaded car parking system, since 2006, theMinistry of Science and Technology has instructed Nippon Mechanics and CraneCo, Ltd (NMC) to undertake the project of designing and building elevators orautomated parking systems in the country.
The system has a liftingdevice and storage spaces inside to store vehicles efficiently and its capacityis 2-20 times higher than a traditional parking lot if they are built on thesame area of land.
Due to the lack of carparking spaces, many car drivers park on roadsides or drive around to find aplace to park their vehicles worsening congestions in the city.
Therefore, automatedparking systems are considered an ideal solution for major cities in Vietnam,especially Hanoi and HCM City.
However, according toNguyen Thi Bao Quynh, general director of NMC, despite many benefits, it isdifficult to implement such systems in the city due to “unreasonableregulations”.
One of them is theone-price rule for fares. It was introduced in January by the city’sadministration in an attempt to control parking lots that previously forcedcustomers to overpay.
Because the automaticparking system needs huge investment, if the price is too low, investors canhardly realise a profit from their investment.
The monthly charge for carsin the city is currently 1.5 million VND (66 USD) per month or 10,000 VND perentry, while in Hanoi, it costs 3.5 million VND per month or 30,000-40,000 VND perentry, respectively.
“The unreasonably low fareshave caused the number of investments for automated parking systems in HCM Cityto be six times lower than in Hanoi,” Quynh said, adding that “if the low fareis still being applied, the city cannot even build a traditional public parkinglot, not to mention an automated parking system.”
Experts at the workshopagreed with Quynh, saying that increasing the automobile parking fee would notonly encourage investors to invest in building more parking zones but also helplimit the use of personal vehicles.
Sungwon Lee from the KoreaTransport Institute told Thanh Nien (Young People) newspaperthat a hike in prices for vehicles or petroleum would not affect drivers asmuch as a hike in parking fees.
Car-owners might considerusing public transport if they were charged with a large amount of money forcar parking, he said.
“Charging more and usingthe money to build a traffic infrastructure and encouraging the use of publicvehicles instead of owning personal vehicles are among the methods that manycountries have applied, including the Republic of Korea. And they have provedto be effective,” he added.-VNA
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