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Mary Smith   (email me)

Senior Vice President

Areas of Expertise:

ADA, Building Codes, Functional Design, Signage & Wayfinding, Parking Access & Revenue Control Systems, Vehicular Flow Capacity and Queuing Analysis

 

Mary Smith is Director of Parking Consulting for Walker Parking Consultants. Since joining our firm in 1975, Mary has been actively involved in all phases of parking planning and design. Among her more challenging assignments was the design of two parking structures serving more than 75,000 people per day for Universal City Florida.

Mary is widely acknowledged as the world's leading parking planner/ functional designer. She has consulted on projects from Barcelona Spain to Tokyo Japan. She is a co-author of PARKING STRUCTURES: Planning, Design, Construction, Maintenance, and Repair. . In addition, she has authored numerous articles and publications and frequently speaks at conferences. She has served as a source for Engineering News Record, Architectural Record, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and USA Today.

Mary also served as parking consultant to the World Trade Center after the bombing of February 1993 and, following the Oklahoma City bombing, on a team that developed security design standards for US government buildings.

 

Downloads

Market-Focused Parking Products at Airports
Thomas A. Butcher and Mary S. Smith, Parking Today, April 2003

 

SUVs and Parking Structures: Is There a Weight Problem?
Mary S. Smith and Anthony P. Chrest, Concrete International, September 2002

 

Another Interesting Installment of "Car Wars"
Mary S. Smith, National Parking Association, March 2002

 

The Level of Service Approach
Beth Kay and Mary S. Smith, Shopping Center Business, March 2000

 

Parking Dimensions for the New Millennium
Mary S. Smith, Shopping Center Business, December 1999

 

The Day of Reckoning: Is it time to Increase Parking Stall Dimensions?
Mary S. Smith, Shopping Center Business, November 1999

 

Soaring Sales of Larger Sport Utility Vehicles are Changing Vehicle Mix
Mary S. Smith, National Parking Association, May 1999