Attachment B - Human Movement Data Study

PARKING COUNTS SUMMARY

 Parking surveys were conducted by Austraffic from Friday
 16 June 2023 to Saturday 17 June 2023 to determine the
 demand of the Royal Mail Hotel car park. Friday and
 Saturday afternoon surveys were conducted to coincide
 with the anticipated peak use hours of the site. Across the    Figure 3: Parking Count Summary
 survey period, during periods of peak demand, the site had
 the following capacity:
 •   Friday: 62 vehicles (12:30PM – 12:45PM)
 •   Saturday: 31 vehicles (12:00PM – 12:15PM and 1:30PM
     – 1:45PM)
 A summary of the two-day parking occupancy at the hotel
 is shown in Figure 3. Under the assumption that this
 reflects typical parking demand for the site, the car park
 currently has an excess of parking supply to meet demand.
 Given the central location of the site car park and
 surrounding land uses (commercial, restaurant, retail), it
 was theorised in the TIA that the parking survey results
 included occupancy of vehicles that weren’t associated with
 the hotel, and was likely to be an overestimate of the hotel
 parking demand.
 Further parking counts were sourced from AVC sites in
 south-east Queensland to understand tavern and hotel
 parking trends. As shown in Figure 3, the Royal Mail site
 follows a far different trend to other tavern sites, as it
 experiences the peak occupancy demand earlier on a
 Friday (corresponding to likely school traffic), whereas the
 other sites experience peak occupancy after the typical
 retail closure times (5:00PM). Additionally, the occupancy
 of the Royal Mail Hotel car park experiences was much
 lower on a Saturday, not following the typical occupancy
 trends of the other AVC sites.




Royal Mail Hotel – HMD Parking Study                                                              21/08/2024   Page 5