A transfer bay is the loading position of an automated parking system where drivers leave and retrieve vehicles, and the machine takes over. In a parking facility:
- Transfer bays are sized to the peak retrieval queue, not the average; an undersized bay makes the whole machine feel broken.
Considerations
- Bay counts, cycle times, and queue space drive the user experience more than the storage technology behind them. The transfer bay is the APS’s front door and its bottleneck.