DESIGN CRITERIA FOR THE LAYOUT OF LORRY PARKS WITH 45 DEGREE PARKING BAYS

Recommendations have been derived for the layout of lorry parks in which the parking stalls are at 45 degrees to the aisles. Using computer models, the minimum requirements for vehicles to enter and leave stalls without reversing or encroaching on other stalls were determined. Trials were carried out on a test track in order to check the accuracy of these predictions and to estimate the tolerances necessary to allow for driver error. Finally the acceptability of the recommendations so derived was demonstrated by full-scale layout at a motorway service area. Widening the stalls allows the aisles to be narrower and vice versa. The most economical use of the area available is obtained with narrow stalls (3.3M in width) and relatively wide aisles. For a given area 30 per cent more vehicles can be accommodated using the method described in this article than by a method used to design some existing motorway service area Lorry Parks. /Author/TRRL/

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• Corporate Authors:

  Printerhall Limited

  29 Newmart Street
  London W1P 3PE,   England 
• Authors:
  • Brannam, M
• Publication Date: 1974-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 912-914
• Serial:
  • Traffic Engineering & Control
  • Volume: 15
  • Issue Number: 20
  • Publisher: Hemming Group, Limited
  • ISSN: 0041-0683
  • Serial URL: http://www.tecmagazine.com/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Design; Digital computers; Mathematical models; On street parking; Parking; Parking facilities; Parking lots; Roadside rest areas; Size; Trucks
• Uncontrolled Terms: Design criteria
• Old TRIS Terms: Lay-out; Parking place
• ITRD Terms: 8673: Digital computer; 9014: Dimension; 2885: Layout; 1236: Lorry; 6473: Mathematical model; 955: Parking; 975: Parking place (one veh only); 971: Service area
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Motor Carriers; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Terminals and Facilities; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00099161
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 18 1975 12:00AM