The Royal Hospital, Belfast - mobility and land use
The Royal Hospital Group has 7000 employees
The average car occupancy in the UK is 1.3
persons. At this rate the hospital would require
5385 car parking spaces if all of its staff used a car
to travel to work.
The hospital is always expanding and this demand
will only increase if the issue of mobility is not
dealt with.
The Royal Group Hospitals are on a site that is
enclosed by 4 main vehicular routes. When the
hospital has needed to expand in the past, it has
swallowed land up that is on its site and as a result
a recreational park was lost for more surface
car-parking.
64 Floor Car-Park
5385 Car Spaces
Surface Car-Parking
5385 Car Spaces
10.1 Hectares
The volumes represent the space required for
parked cars compared to parked bicycles for the
Royal Hospital’s 7000 staff
3 Floor Bicycle-Park
7000 Bicycle Spaces
Surface Bicycle-Parking
7000 Bicycle Spaces
1.2 Hectares
7
Green Recreational
Spaces that existed
before the Westlink.
They are now provide
surface car-parking for
the Royal hospitals
2
DIVIS
D
R
LD
FIE
ING
SPR
LEGEND:
2600
2100
1070
2000
4000
2000
INTERFACE BARRIER
(PEACE WALL)
OR RD
GROSVEN
1905
1905
700
4800
610
MAIN VEHICULAR ROUTES
2400
MOVING BICYCLE DIMENSIONS
(700x1905x2000)
PARKED BICYCLE DIMENSIONS
(610x1905x1070)
A parked car uses 20 times more space
than a parked bicycle
ROYAL VICTORIA
HOSPITAL SITE
7
CITY CENTRE BOUNDARY
S
FALL
REMOVED GREEN SPACES
(BEFORE WESTLINK)
Y
DWA
CAR PARKING
BICYCLE PARKING
RD
BROA
A moving car uses 8 times more space
than a moving bicycle
PARKED CAR DIMENSIONS
(2400x4800x2100)
W
M EST
OT L
OR INK
W
AY
MOVING CAR DIMENSIONS
(2000x4000x2600)
ST