No. of cars in a field?

[PhilJ]

Hi,

I am trying to estimate how many cars I can park in a field, does this sound about right.
Flat field 100m x 100m
Car is approx 3m x 2m leave 1m each side to get in and out of car = 3m x 4m
Leave 5m between double rows

Row 1 = 25 cars (100/4)
Rows 2 = 25 cars
Leave 5m gap
Rows 4 & 5 50 cars
etc

That works through to 450 cars for a field 100m x 100m, so on the safe side say 400?

[frog]

2m seems a big gap to leave between cars.

[madmike]

I think Frog's right, you are double counting your 1M gaps between cars. 3 x 3 maybe better.

[Freefall]

Allow 27 square metres per car. The most effective way is to lay out rows of canes/tape 16 metres apart and park cars either side of this. The 27 square metres allows the exit/entrance lanes between rows.

4x4s can be parked on steep bits. Campervans best parked elsewhere on hardstanding (allow about 100 for a major event).

This theory worked for Oban and JK2012.

Squeeze em in tight and you might get 400 (calculation gives 370).

[greywolf]

what cars do you people drive?
I have a Mk4 Golf - hardly a big car - but it is >4m long
in the past i've used 30m2 per car as a rule of thumb, which would give you 333 per ha, but it is possible to squeeze them in a bit tighter than that if your parking marshals are well disciplined so 400 would be achievable

[edit: freefall must type quicker than me!]

[PhilJ]

Thanks guys the proof of the pudding will be at CROESO

[EddieH]

Well last time you had oneof the smallest parking fields I've ever seen (Pwll Dhu and Blorenge) - a children's football pitch. Amazingly I got my car into it both times - I never did discover where everyone else went.

[PhilJ]

Please don't remind me of parking cars every day at the last CROESO, we only had one dry day, re Pwll Ddu there were cars everywhere, we had about 6 different places to put cars so they were spread over a smallish area.

[70plus]

Car is approx 3m x 2m leave 1m each side to get in and out of car = 3m x 4m

It won't make much difference to the calcs, but the only 3m (10ft) cars I can think of are old-style Minis, Cinquecentos and Smarts. Any 'normal' car will be 4m or more.

[Tim]

A standard car parking space is 4.8m x 2.4m with 6.1m road width between rows.

So with decent space for car access I'd suggest a space of 5mx3.5m plus the share of the road = 28m2 per car as the most efficient parking you'll get. As others have said if you have a big square field bank on 1 car per 30m2 - a small irregular field will be a lot less.