Australian standards require that car wheel stops be provided wherever it is necessary to limit the travel of a vehicle manoeuvring into a parking space.

Examples where wheel stops should be provided include:

  • To control kerb overhang where this would inconvenience or be hazardous to pedestrians;
  • To prevent contact with buildings or end barriers; and
  • Where encroachment into an opposing space in the adjacent parking module is to be restrained.

Hanson wheel stops are made from steel-reinforced concrete, 90 mm high and 2000 mm long conforming to AS 2890.1-1993. Two 30-mm-diameter holes are provided for fixing. Typically, Y20 dowels, 200 long, are used to fix the wheel stops to concrete paving and are grouted into place.

As a guide to correct location of wheel stops, as set out in AS 2890.1-1993, see FIGURE 2.

  FIGURE 1 Hanson Wheel Stop to AS 2890.1-1993

 
FIGURE 2 Wheel Stop Distance after AS 2890.1-1993