The steady growth of truck traveling on most Interstate and Primary highways has resulted in increasing demand for both public rest areas and private truck stops in Virginia. In addition, inadequate parking spaces for commercial trucks may be a contributing factor to drivers' fatigue and the unsafe practices of parking commercial trucks on highway shoulders and interchange ramps. This study developed a methodology to determine the supply and demand for commercial truck parking along highway systems. In this study, supply was defined as the number of parking spaces available for commercial truck parking, and demand was defined as the sum of the parking accumulation and the illegal parking at a given time. A two-phase research project on the Supply and Demand for Commercial Heavy Vehicle Parking Facilities in Virginia has been carried out to evaluate truck driver parking needs. Phase one of this study developed a methodology to determine the supply and demand for commercial truck parking using Interstate-81 in Virginia as a case study. This Phase two expanded the study to other Interstate and primary highways in Virginia, checked the applicability of the parking demand model developed in phase one and developed new models for the other Interstate highways in Virginia. Extensive data on the characteristics of commercial truck parking including parking duration and accumulation for different times of day were obtained. Detailed information was also obtained on the characteristics of each truck stop and rest area, including the location, number and types of parking spaces, and availability of other amenities, such as restaurants and showers. Two types of questionnaire surveys were conducted. The first survey involved truck drivers, and the second survey involved truck stop managers/owners. The survey data were used to develop models to describe the relationship between parking accumulation and independent variables such as traffic volume on the highway, truck percentage, parking duration, and the distance from a highway to a truck stop. After testing the applicability of the models, they were then used to estimate commercial truck parking demand in 2010 and 2020. Deficiencies of parking spaces in supply with respect to the estimated demand were then determined for each truck stop and the entire highway system.
Estimation of the Demand for Commercial Truck Parking on Interstate Highways in Virginia
2003
88 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Transportation , Transportation & Traffic Planning , Road Transportation , Trucks , Parking facility , Supply and demand , Highway transportation , Travel , Rest areas , Traffic volume , Commercial vehicles , Virginia , Surveys , Research projects , Case studies , Methodology , Questionnaires , Transportation planning , Interstate highways , Truckstops
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