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Parking dimensions: Being a Structural Engineer, my only knowledge about it was from the PCI manual on parking structures which I referred to in design of precast concrete parking structures. I'm not sure if parking space has been increased. I suggest you refer to the PCI website, or for more info on ...

Partha, 1- Your question about whether 3.5 m lane width is used worldwide; I don't know. 2- Given that I'm a Structural Engineer I'm not familiar with some of the terminology you used. Lanes are marked by lines at 3.5 m c/c. Period. 3- Parking: as I mentioned, that's in SOME parkings, which ...

Dear Partha, Lane lines define only lane widths. Nothing to do with vehicle widths. However, on another but related subject, I see at some parking lots, that the lines separating parking spaces are doubled to leave enough space between vehicles. ------------------------------ Neil Kazen, M.Eng., ...

Dear Partha, In Canada, lane width is 3.5 m as well. Shoulder width is extra. In my shipping experience, vehicle width is 2.4m (soft conversion from the previous 8 ft. width). That would be the widest object we can normally ship. However if we had to ship wider that that, then there are extra measures ...

That's for the national transportation authority to do. In the late 70's a research, of similar objective, was carried out by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO). A large and highly qualified research team checked various existing axial configurations; ran computer analysis for various bridge ...