Capacity of parking facilities (VSS2000/455)
Overview
Background & policy context:
More than 25 years ago the last renewal of the Swiss Norm “SN 640 293 – Parkieren – Betrieb” was published. In the meantime a significant increase of management with controlled (automated) entrances and exits of parking areas was recognized. New technologies and control media were developed with deep impact to e.g. supply and despatching times. Especially new technologies as for example ticketing per cell phone or paying by credit card led to assumptions about diversification or change of capacity / efficiency of these facilities / installations. The research project aimed to quantify these changes, estimate the capacity / performance of the facilities and to renew the existing Swiss norm.
Objectives:
The main objective of the research is the investigation about the capacity of different components for parking facilities, ramp and mechanical car park facilities. For various operation systems the design of the car park elements, waiting time and buffer space will be determined.
The project shall allow to establish new standards instead of the former norm.
Methodology:
Classification of the parking facilities is undertaken. For each type of parking are defined the individual elements that have an impact on the overall performance or the performance of individual components. Performance of the individual elements is determined by empirical studies.
After the technical references being evaluated, empiric investigations are carried out in order to determine the capacity of all components for parking facilities referring to the vehicles and the pedestrians.
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