Parking space is an essential aspect of institutions due to its purpose in the temporary keeping of automobiles. The growing need for easy transport has necessitated ownership of cars, and every individual aspires to acquire one so as to enhance their movement from one point to another within and without the institution. Because of the need for convenience, many people own cars thus increasing the need for larger parking space. It is important to the organization or institution to understand the importance of larger parking space that will accommodate as many automobiles as possible. Despite the increase in car ownership, many parking spaces continue to retain their original sizes that were designed based on projections long ago. Therefore, it creates the challenge for car owners who find it difficult to find parking spaces within these institutions thus forcing them to seek for alternatives that might subject them to unwarranted spending. It is thus important to highlight the problem of parking space specifically for the California State University Long Beach that has failed to offer sufficient parking services to cars.
It is important to analyze the parking of the institution due to the essential nature of the facility and to also help the management of the institution understand the gravity of the matter. Every public institution receives several visitors daily, and most of them use personal cars as their primary means of transport. Some use hired cabs for transport to the institution for temporary endeavors that might require the cab to be parked for some time as they await the accomplishment of the endeavor. However, with the current size of the parking space in CSULB, it is virtually impractical to guarantee that there will be a parking space for your car all the time. Additionally, CSULB is one of the largest campuses of CSU thus receives thousands of visitors every day. Other causes of the shrinking parking space are poorly planned parking, population growth and increased ownership of cars. It has led to congestion which leads to other problems such as insecurity and time wastage. It is paramount to offer sufficient parking spaces that will accommodate every visiting cab without waiting for others to leave so as to park. The current size of the parking space only accommodates fair number cars. The situation has in many cases forced people to wait for the parked cars to be released so that you can park you have your car parked before leaving to attend to your endeavors. It implies that you might have to suspend your programs for a given time until other persons accomplish their tasks.
With the above in mind, it worth to note that time wastage becomes familiar and the value of timeliness is lost in the process thus leading to reduced productivity of individuals. Everything revolves around time thus every facility should be designed with time consciousness. The shrinking space for parking in the institution should be a matter of concern to the management of the institution and the facility. It is paramount for the management to understand the gravity of the matter and take appropriate measures towards decongesting the parking space and creating models that will help save time for other chores within the institution. The management is already aware of the increasing population in the institution but is somewhat being insensitive to the possible problems and the urgent need to bring the issue to an end and promote efficiency in the university. It is thus important for the management to find the usefulness of this analysis.
Conclusion
The problem of congestion is slowly coming into the picture in the university due to the shrinking parking space which has result from relying on the old designs that were based on old data and done at a time when the population had not grown at the current rate. The planning was efficient in the past, but the growth in population has led to increasing in ownership of automobiles thus creating the crisis of congestion. Therefore, the institution management should purpose to find ways to create more space in the parking area.
