PREPARED BY:
Zinzala Jignesh C

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First multi-level car park
• The earliest known multi-storey car park was built in 1918 for the Hotel La Salle at 215 West Washington Street in the West Loop area of downtown Chicago, Illinois.
• It was designed by Holabird and Roch The Hotel La Salle was demolished in 1976, but the parking structure remained because it had been designated as preliminary landmark status and the structure was located several blocks from the hotel it was built to service.
• The Hotel LaSalle multi-storey was demolished in 2005 after failing to receive landmark status from the city of Chicago Jupiter Realty Corp. of Chicago is constructing a 49-storey apartment tower in its place with construction underway as of March 2008.
Automated parking
• The first historical mention of an automated garage was in a 1931 Popular Mechanics article which featured an underground garage where the car was taken to a parking area by a conveyor then an elevator to shuttles mounted on rails
• Automatic multi-storey car parks provide lower building cost per parking slot, as they typically require less building volume and less ground area than a conventional facility with the same capacity. However, the cost of the mechanical equipment within the building that is needed to transport cars internally needs to be added to the lower building cost to determine the total costs. Other costs are usually lower too, for example there is no need for an energy-intensive ventilating system, since cars are not driven inside and human cashiers or security personnel may not be needed.
Automated car parks rely on similar technology that is used for mechanical handling and document retrieva
MODULAR CAR PARKING
• It happens frequently trying to develop parking planning strategies that the parking demand grows often too quickly, significantly and unexpectedly. Modular steel car parks could be the proper solution if the surface area available is not sufficient and can be just expanded upwards or whenever it is not feasible to build up a multistory parking.
• The development concept of modular car parks is made by the modular assembling method of vertical and horizontal elements (such as columns and beams) with a ceiling made of concrete and tarmac: more modular units can build a parking in different sizes and shake. The dimensions of the ceiling grid in each module is m 5 x 5 o 15 x 5.
• The solution makes possible to develop a parking structure even in case of particular conditions or constraints, such as archaeological sites or city centers, because it allows: -To virtually double the parking surface without leaving any footprint on the ground, as no settlement for excavations or traditional foundations is needed; -To double the parking surface by means of a light steel one deck car park system. -Prefab modular components of the system make each project versatile and suitable both to large and small sized areas. These parking structures are generally demountable and can be relocated so to avoid to make the choice of converting a surface to parking area irrevocably.
• They are conceived as temporary parking facilities for temporary parking demand needs, whenever the parking demand can be managed dinamically and easily integrated into the planning of urban infrastructures. There is actually a number of cases of parking decks which have been demounted after a few years - to give room to the development of permanent, multistory parking structures- and relocated on the surrounding areas to reply efficiently to the local parking demand needs.
Multi Level Car Parking
• A Multi-Level Vehicle Parking System ensures not only safety to the vehicles parked within it, but also ensures creating a Total Pollution Free Environment. It provides a clean, environmentally friendly operation and assures high safety and security for passengers, vehicle and contents. A Modern Multi Level Parking System offers minimum movement of parts and noise. It provides effective maintenance with aircraft type efficiency and reliability at easy and cost efficient operation. Full exploitation of land usage up to 90% is ensured compared to 67% in other comparable systems and other advantages such as,
• Makes best use of available space above and below ground. With less environmental impact it reduces opportunities for theft and burglary.
• Automated Parking is a method of automatically parking and retrieving cars typically using a computerized system of shuttles, lifts, and carriers. Advantages are,
 The hassle of searching for an empty spot would be eliminated.
 Designed to decrease the risk of car theft, vandalism, and physical assault.
 Eliminate the issue of fender benders and car door dents.
 Drivers can retrieve their vehicles from a secure waiting area and are less likely to risk their personal safety.
 Ideal for individuals with limited mobility or special needs.
• Automated Parking allow for flexible usage of land space, which means that the footprint can be reduced to one‐third of the land required by conventional car parking solutions.
• It requires little power lighting and can be built where a typical conventional car park would not fit. Cost‐effective on a number of fronts, automated parking also offers significantly improved service to the customer, the automated parking is reliable technology is manufactured to high tolerances and has few moving parts making maintenance cots low.
• It is economically beneficial to the environment. It would reduce the problem of pollution because the vehicles are not driven through the system, meaning there are fewer emissions. Automated Parking would