Abstract
The report describes a series of full-scale investigations into the dynamic characteristics of car parks, undertaken to assist architects and planners of multi-storey and other car parks to calculate the dimensions and to plan the facilities required for well-balanced and efficient parks into which cars will flow rapidly and smoothly, and from which they will discharge without unnecessary delay to drivers, while at the same time providing high static capacities. The dynamic capacities (saturation flows, in car/h) of various components of car parks - gates, ramps, aisles, stalls, etc. - have been studied, measured and reported on, and prediction equations have been formulated.