Parking Structures provides a single-source reference for parking structure designers, builders, and owners. This third edition is still the only such book. It addresses how to select the best functional and structural designs for a given situation, ensure long-term durability, design for easy maintenance, decide on the number and placement of entrances and exits, design an easily understood wayfinding system, design for ADA compliance, plan for internal auto and pedestrian traffic circulation, select the most effective and energy efficient lighting system, avoid the most common design and construction pitfalls, provide for adequate patron safety and security, carry out needed repairs, and extend the parking structure life. Parking Structures addresses all the major issues related to parking garages. It is an essential reference for parking structure owners, structural engineers, architects, contractors, and other professionals. New in the third edition: This third edition of Parking Structures includes new material on metric dimensions and recommendations for functional design globally, new research on flow capacity and queuing at parking entry/exits, an entirely new chapter on planning for a new parking structure, including cost issues and alternatives to structure construction, pedestrian considerations, safety in parking facilities, plazas above parking structures, an expanded chapter on seismic design, seismic retrofit, life cycle cost analysis, and upgrades to existing structures.

Parking Structures: Planning, Design, Construction, Maintenance and Repair

Engineering & Transportation

Chrest, Anthony P.

Smith, Mary S.

Bhuyan, Sam

Iqbal, Mohammad

Monahan, Donald R.

Transportation

Springer

Product Description \nAvoid unnecessary costs and traffic by accurately estimating the parking requirements for mixed-use projects according to the types of tenants they will attract. Now in its third edition, this authoritative book has been updated throughout by author Mary S. Smith, a ULI member and leading parking expert, in collaboration with parking professionals and developers. It includes many additional land uses and revised parking ratios, and addresses trends such as increased use of ride sharing services and scooters. The Excel model version lets you plug in your project’s land uses and calculates the number of parking spaces needed. This book is essential for developers, planners, government agencies, consultants, and engineers. The book is also available separately (ISBN 9780874204278).\nAbout the Author \nMary Smith is Director of Parking Consulting for Walker Parking Consultants. Since joining Walker in 1975, Mary has been actively involved in all phases of parking planning and design for parking projects throughout the world. Since 2010, she has consulted on projects in Abu Dhabi, China, Dubai, Egypt, Korea, Kuwait, Indonesia, Panama, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. Among her particular areas of expertise are pedestrian and vehicular circulation, wayfinding, and flow capacity in mega-structures; impact of changing vehicle sizes on parking dimensions; accessible parking design; and the integration of parking management, operations, and functional design. She has been heavily involved in researching and speaking on the impact of ride-hailing and autonomous vehicles on parking.

Shared Parking (Excel Model Included): Third Edition

Business & Money

Real Estate

Urban Land Institute

Thoroughly updated with new data, this book contains the information needed to accurately estimate parking requirements for a mixed-use center. Essential for government planners, developers, and architects, it helps to determine how many parking spaces are needed for a new development based on the types of tenants it will attract.

Shared Parking

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Drawing on the combined expertise of three of the world's leading parking structure experts, this updated edition provides the only single-source guide to planning, designing, and maintaining parking structures. It provides readers with design solutions, including material on how to ensure long-term durability, design for easy maintenance, select the most energy efficient lighting system, decide on the number and placement of entrances and exits, and avoid the most common construction pitfalls.  Reflecting recent advances in technological innovations, this volume features significantly revised mterial and contains five new chapters on the Americans with Disabilities Act, lighting, graphics, seismic design, and designing for maintenance. The Second Edition of Parking Structures offers architects, engineers, parking facility owners, and contractors a unique and comprehensive guide to designing safe and effective parking structures.In addition, institutions providing education courses for professional registration in related fields will benefit from this timely, authoritative account.

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