THE DESIGN OF AN 'EVENT' PARKING GARAGE

This article offers a look at the specialized parking facility, the Event Parking Garage as it was conceived and implemented for the Houston Arena Garage. Specialty consultants are important to bring experience with the specific demands of this kind of facility. Site selection must be based on careful traffic analysis; elevators and escalators must be located and designed to move large numbers of people in short periods of time; parking spaces must be larger than typical to speed entry and exit, speed ramps must be able to carry vehicles are varying speeds. Revenue control systems are special, too, usually allowing the garage operator to simply open the gates when an event concludes through some sort of pre-payment system.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Bricepac, Incorporated

  12228 Venice Boulevard, Suite 541
  Los Angeles, CA  United States  90066
• Authors:
  • Marcus, J S
• Publication Date: 2002-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 26-29
• Serial:
  • Parking Today
  • Volume: 7
  • Issue Number: 11
  • Publisher: Bricepac, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 1095-5062
  • Serial URL: http://www.parkingtoday.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Design; Parking demand; Parking garages; Special events
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Design; Highways; Society; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00935288
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: BTRIS, TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 31 2003 12:00AM