A good parking lot design practice is as much an art as it is science. The design of larger parking lots is often a tedious and highly iterative process. Further, in most situations, the stall count for a parking facility is never fully known until the final layout is actually completed. Over the years' parking lot designers have migrated from rough hand sketching to using CAD blocks to layout parking concepts. For several years now, CAD applications have played a major role in advancing, simplifying, and developing cost-effective transportation design practices. This technical paper describes an innovative approach to designing parking lots and the benefits that one can derive especially when dealing with larger projects. This new approach takes advantage of the inherent power of CAD to semi-automatically develop parking layouts in considerably less time and with potentially more accuracy than other traditional design methods. For the covering abstract of this conference see ITRD number E211426.
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