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Encyclopedia > Parking garage

A multi-storey car park is a building or part thereof which is designed specifically to be for vehicle parking and where there are a number of floors on which parking takes place. c.f. a car park ( a.k.a. a parking lot ).


Nomenclature

The term multi-storey car park is used in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and some Commonwealth countries, whereas the term parking garage is predominant in the USA.


Design

Movement of vehicles between floors can be effected by:

  • vehicle lifts
  • interior ramps
  • exterior ramps - which may take the form of a circular ramp ( a.k.a. a 'whirley-gig' )

In locations where the car park is built on sloping land, the car park may be split level.


Car parks built to serve residential properties are usually below the dwellings, whereas car parks which serve shopping centres can sometimes be built adjacent to the shopping centre so as to effect easier access at each floor between shops and parking.


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Visitor Welcome Center and Bookstore Parking Garage (106 words)
The Visitor Welcome Center and Bookstore parking garage is located at the Reitz Union, at the corner of Museum Road and Reitz Union Drive.
The garage may be used during non-operating hours for short-term parking, free of charge.
Parking may be reserved in this garage for conferences and special events held at the Reitz Union or in nearby facilities.
Multi-storey car park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (382 words)
A multi-storey car park is a building (or part thereof) which is designed specifically to be for automobile parking and where there are a number of floors or levels (stories or storeys) on which parking takes place.
The term parking ramp is used in the upper Midwest, especially Minnesota and Wisconsin, and has been sighted as far east as Toledo, Ohio and Buffalo, New York.
In recent times, car parks built to serve residential and some business properties are built as part of a larger building, and often are built underground as part of the basement.
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