We know parking bays come in all shapes and sizes, and that many of them deserve an independently designed string (with cross sections attached to the string to describe the kerb shape of the parking bay). For those parking/bus or widening bays that can be readily described with cross section edits, we’ve got you covered with this new variation.
Included in the Civil Site Design V26 release, the Insert – Add Parking Bay variation attaches a parking bay and dish to the invert of your kerb with the following controls:
- Set the width and height of the dish to add through the parking bay
- Set the dimensions of the parking bay – width, taper lengths and bay length
- Pick the type of tapers you want: linear, bay taper (⅓ curve, ⅓ tangent, ⅓ curve) or parabolic (back-to-back curves). Or, pick an alignment
- Set the footpath (sidewalk) option from:
– Keep the original offset and either elevation or slope
– Transition offset to match back of parking bay
The software adds in extra sections to finely match up the start of the kerb to the dish back. Don’t forget to press the Recalculate button on the Design Data form to push those extra sections in.
The dish forms against the parking bay taper up until it reaches the width you input, so you get a smooth transition from kerb to dish and kerb.
This variation does assume a few things:
- You are adding a dish (you can put in zero for the width to simulate no dish) and attaching to the lip/invert of kerb
- The kerb consists of four codes (lip code, two codes between and a back of kerb code)
- The existing back of kerb code (eg: BK code) is removed and replaced with a code named BKP. We do this so that it is easier to manage the subgrade in a single template (if we keep the BK code, then the software assumes a ‘kerb’ type subgrade from the edge of road right through the parking bay to the back of kerb code)
- The parking bay taper begins at the Start Chainage you pick – you need to have an End Chainage that matches or is beyond the parking bay extents
If you are exploring the variations and hunting for the new parking bay variation, note that we’ve enabled a (completelyuser controlled) folder structure for grouping your variations (Read the Blog Article here). When you are looking in the Custom Variations list, you will find the Insert – Parking Bay with Dish variation in the Task_Specific_Variations folder (if you are in the USA, look in the Pavement folder).
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