Testing site access with Swept Path Analysis
Why Choose Us?
Encon Associates provides comprehensive Swept Path Analysis services that assess exactly how vehicles will move through your site, before anything is built.
Our Swept Path Analysis Services
What we offer
We conduct highly accurate Swept Path Analysis to ensure that the entrances, internal roads, parking, and servicing areas of your development are safe and practical to use. This service is essential for helping you optimise road layouts, loading bays, and parking areas to ensure compliance with planning regulations, while reducing risk to road users.
We start by reviewing your proposed layout and agreeing which vehicles and manoeuvres need testing. We will then model each vehicle using advanced AutoTURN vehicle tracking software, which simulates real-world vehicle movements to ensure that all vehicles can enter, exit, and manoeuvre through your proposed layout. Finally, we will report back on whether your layout works, modelling any changes needed and providing clear recommendations to ensure a safe environment for everyone using the site.
What you receive
We send over swept path drawings that clearly model each vehicle’s movement through your layout, helping to determine any turning circle and parking requirements. Our state-of-the-art vehicle tracking software, AutoTURN, runs on AutoCAD, which means we can supply your design team with the simulation in DWG format.
Our Swept Path Analysis services
Uses of Swept Path Analysis
Our Swept Path Analysis services can be used to simulate a wide variety of scenarios on developments of every size. For example:
- Larger and commercial developments – we simulate HGVs, buses, and emergency vehicles that are entering and exiting your site to test whether the junction and road layout can safely accommodate them.
- Residential and smaller developments – we test whether cars can access the proposed parking bays and if they have enough space to manoeuvre without increasing safety risks.
- Local highway networks – we check whether buses or HGVs can navigate the carriageway if your development could introduce new obstructions, and whether abnormal load vehicles can travel along the local highway network.
Types of vehicles we assess
We can model almost any vehicle, provided we have its dimensions. Standard vehicles such as cars, vans, HGVs, buses, refuse collection vehicles, and fire tenders are all built into our AutoTURN software. We can then create specialist or abnormal load vehicles from their dimensions. However, some specialist vehicles do have limitations, so we will confirm what’s possible at the start of your project.
Case Study
Swept Path Analysis for a care home
We recently completed a comprehensive Swept Path Analysis to test the proposed site access for a care home in Wolverhampton. The vehicles included a refuse lorry, pumping appliance, large delivery vehicle, ambulance vehicle, and a car. The results helped to determine the appropriate junction corner radii, parking restrictions required at the access, ambulance drop-off bays, and the internal layout of the site.
I engaged Encon Associates on behalf of a client to carry out a swept-path analysis. Tyler responded quickly, providing lots of detailed information and advice, and the fee was very competitive. I would highly recommend Encon.
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Additional services
We offer a wide array of specialist services that complement our vehicle Swept Path Analysis services and are designed to boost your project’s overall sustainability rating.
From Daylight Calculations and Tree Surveys to SBEM Calculations and Acoustic Reports, our team provides the technical expertise you need to achieve the highest sustainability rating possible.
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