The steady growth of commercial truck travel has led to an increasing demand for truck parking spaces at public rest areas and private truck stops on interstate highways in Virginia. This study developed a methodology to determine the supply and demand for commercial truck parking along these corridors. 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 illegal parking at a given time. Phase I of this study developed a methodology to determine the supply and demand for commercial truck parking using I-81 in Virginia as a case study. This Phase II study included other interstate highways in Virginia, checked the applicability of the parking demand model developed in Phase I, and developed new models when necessary. Extensive data on the characteristics of commercial truck parking and the characteristics of each truck stop and rest area were collected. In addition, truck drivers and truck stop owners/operators were surveyed. The data collected 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 the applicability of the models was tested, they were used to estimate commercial truck parking demand in 2010 and 2020. Deficiencies of parking spaces with respect to estimated demand were then determined for each truck stop and the entire Virginia interstate highway system.
Estimation of the Demand for Commercial Truck Parking on Interstate Highways in Virginia
2004
51 pages
Report
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English
Transportation & Traffic Planning , Road Transportation , Transportation , Parking facilities , Highway transportation , Trucks , Travel , Transportation planning , Traffic safety , Rest areas , Commercial vehicles , Virginia , Questionnaires , Case studies , Surveys , Traffic volume , Interstate highways , Demand estimates , Truck stops
Overnight Truck Parking Along Tennessee's Interstate Highways and Rest Areas
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