PARKING: EFFECTS OF STALL MARKINGS ON THE POSITIONING OF PARKED CARS

SOME EXPERIMENTS, USING SHORT SIDE-LINES INSTEAD OF THE MORE USUAL RECTANGULAR MARKINGS TO INDICATE PARKING STALLS, ARE DESCRIBED. THESE EXPERIMENTS SHOWED THAT AT SITES FREE FROM OBSTRUCTIONS SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS IN EFFECTIVE AISLE WIDTH OR ROAD WIDTH COULD BE ACHIEVED BY THE USE OF SHORT SIDE-LINES, WHICH INDUCED DRIVERS TO PARK THEIR CARS DEEPER IN THE STALLS. /RRL/A/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • 19 Pp, 19 FIG, 4 TAB
• Corporate Authors:

  MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT, LONDON (UK)

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• Authors:
  • Ellson, P B
  • Bellchambers, D M
  • Button, R J
  • Summer, P J
• Publication Date: 1969

Media Info

• Serial:
  • Rrl Reports, Road Research Lab /UK/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: On street parking; Parking; Positioning; Road markings
• Old TRIS Terms: Traffic marking
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00225307
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Road Research Laboratory /UK
• Report/Paper Numbers: Rept Lr 224
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 1 1970 12:00AM