64% of U.K. motorists state that leaving their car in a public car park is “risky” or “unsafe”. Only 11% of those cite car crime as the most important deterrent.

PolyPark adds value to any car park, eliminates wasted spaces due to careless parking and improves capacity and efficiency.

21.7% of U.K. shoppers say that they “will” switch supermarkets in their local area in return for “safer and more convenient car parking”, (another 21.4% say that they “might” do so).

Those motorist shoppers spend around £35 Billion p.a. in U.K. supermarkets alone. The commercial “PolyPark effect” is potentially stunning - for retailers and the parking industry as a whole!

The Solution - POLYPARK

• For everybody involved in parking, developers, operators or motorists as end users, the problems about which motorists complain are “human factors”. They have little to do with car design, or car park design. The problems are just people being people. Nothing can be done!
• That is no longer true. Polypark eliminates or reduces all of these problems.
  • Simply retrofitting ‘POLYPARK – Parking without tears’ into any pre-existing car park has immediate effects:-
  • Drivers begin their turn from the aisle with a wider arc, to arrive straighter, with the front of their car near central between two adjacent Polyparks positioned 2.4 metres (8 ft) apart at the rear of their chosen car bay. (Polyparks often serve as a “training aid” on how to park properly by making more accurate, effective and careful use of steering).
  • As every car is near central in its space, the gap between cars is near uniform, depending only on the width of cars - rather than the driver “variable”. (No more arriving back at the car to find too narrow a gap to allow easy entry. In Polypark trials, 90% of gaps between cars were over 690 mm – 25 inches wide).
  • The gap between cars is maintained over time as adjoining cars come and go. (No more wasted car spaces due to careless or selfish positioning of cars).
  • Most drivers straighten their steering as they position the front of the car between Polyparks. As they later reverse towards the aisle there is no need for an immediate steering correction to avoid a front wing or bumper “swiping” either of the two neighbouring cars – just when the driver’s attention is more properly on what may lie behind them.
  • People and shopping trolleys can no longer pass down the gap between safely parked cars. (The third most common complaint about car parks).
  • However, shopping trolleys, wheelchairs and people can easily pass through a vacant car space – just as they could before Polyparks.
  • Less confident habitual “reverse parkers” find it much easier to make an accurate and confident forward parking manoeuvre, due to the visual guidance and generally wider gap created by Polypark. In retail car parks a driver who reverses into their space will not be able to reach their luggage compartment due to adjacent Polyparks. (In some countries reverse parking is actually unlawful, due to the delays and potential confusion caused in parking aisles – and the potential for collision when reversing towards other cars close on either side).
• Apart from the above benefits, Polypark prevents the two most common “behavioural” defects observed in herringbone pattern car parks - (angled car spaces served by one way only aisles). These are that many drivers have difficulty positioning their car at the correct angle and alignment, often leaving the rear of the car within the narrow aisle - due to white lines being invisible on the ground beneath. Secondly, that motorists drive through a vacant space in front, to emerge going the wrong way down an adjacent aisle.
• Properly designed herringbone car parks, with all of the capacity, efficiency and driver behavioural defects eliminated by Polypark, offer around 10% higher parking density than traditional “perpendicular” pattern car parks. (Obviously depends on the size and shape of car park area but generally true with sites over about 0.5 hectare – about 150 car spaces).