Parking facilities come in many forms, including parking lots, street parking spaces, and angle, perpendicular, and parallel parking. Parking lots are designated areas near businesses that are usually open for public use. Street parking spaces are marked along roads. Angle parking has vehicles park at an angle due to one-way traffic. Perpendicular and parallel parking involve parking perpendicular or parallel to the curb. Illegal parking includes areas that block access or visibility. While necessary, parking can cause issues like congestion from reduced road space, accidents from careless maneuvers, pollution from repeated starts and stops, and obstructed access for emergency vehicles.

1. JUST PARK AND FLY
TYPESOF PARKING:
Parking is not just the driveway to home there areseveral differenttypes of
parking facilities related to parking.
PARKINGLOTS:
Parking lots are areas that arelabeled for parking. These areas are usually marked
out with thick lines maybe yellow or white. You can usually find parking lots near
restaurants, officesand supermarketsetc. These parking lots are mostly opened all
the time for everyone, butother parking lots are not opened for everyone anytime
like Airportcar parking spaces
you have to book those parking lots for your car.
Parkingspaceson thesidesof thestreet:
These spaces are on the sides of the road identified for parking and you can clearly
identified them because of yellow and white thick lines which shows the parking
boundaries.
Angle Parking:
Angle parking you can assume this parking from the namethis is done in many
places, cause of angled parking vehicles are designated to go one way.
Perpendicular Parking:
Perpendicular parking isa common parking plot you will find it in most parking
places, which normallyprovidespaces marked in a 90 degree angle to the curb or a
building.
ParallelParking:

2. ParallelParking is simple when you parkyour car between two cars.
IllegalParking:
This is the kind of parking you should avoid and this parking includes, highways
parking (if indicated otherwise), in an intersection and on pedestrian crosswalks or
sidewalks.
Most importantin frontof driveways, in an underpassor bridgeand a spot reserve
for disabled and one more doubleparking you should avoid all this kind of parking
otherwise you have to face trouble.
Effectsof parking:
Parkingis very importantit controls the congestion and accidents in traffic
parking has the following adverse effects like accidents, pollution, obstruction to
fire-fighting operationsetc.
1. Congestion parking the vehicles covers considerablestreet space which leads to
small roadsspace. Due to this the speed of all vehicles will be reduced, as a result
of slow speed the
2. Journeytime and delay will increase. This situation cause increase in the running
cost of the vehicle which leads to extra fuelloss and great economical loss.
3. Accidents happensall the time due to wrong and Careless parking and
unparking. These accidents arereferred to as parking accidents. These parking
accidents usually happen while driving out a car from the parking area, opening of
the car doorswithout looking out, and while parking the car in parking lot.
4. Environmental pollution. Parking cause environmentalpollution due to starting
cars again and again. They also effect the beautifullook of the buildings because
there are carsparked at every available space which look really bad.

3. 5. Parked vehicles create a huge problemsfor firefighting vehicles. The firefighting
vehicles cannotreach to buildings. Sometimes they block access to hydrantsand
access to buildings.