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KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 11): The Federal Territories Ministry is studying the feasibility of having automated multi-storey car parks at People's Housing Projects (PPR) here to solve the problem of parking spaces.
Minister, Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor said the study conducted by Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) would use PPR Kerinchi as a pilot project as the area has a high population density, Bernama reported yesterday.
"Although the multi-storey car parks at 12 PPRs will be made this year and next year, we plan to use a new multi-storey parking with a ‘decking’ concept which will automatically operate with the existing system to enable more efficient and easier movement of vehicles such as in Japan and [South] Korea.
"We will also [be able to] increase the number of parking spaces there...if the place (PPR) already has parking spaces, we can increase it by two to three times. So far, DBKL is still evaluating which areas are suitable for this facility," Bernama reported him as saying after launching the Jom Bantu Rakyat Lembah Pantai programme at PPR Kerinchi here yesterday.
Japan is the heaviest user of automated multi-storey car parks, already having more than 100,000 automated parking spaces per year by the late 1990s to accommodate the rapid increase in motorisation in the country.
In Singapore, the Housing Development Board introduced the first mechanised parking system in its public housing scheme in 2015.
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