Guidelines, site selection, and design for implementing truck parking/rest facilities in Chicago's south suburbs.

Details

• Creators:
  Rohter, Laurence ; Fain, Jeffrey ; Lohman, Hollie ; Beltemacchi, Peter
• Corporate Creators:
  Illinois Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture ; Illinois Center for Transportation
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Trucks
  • Parking facilities
  • Roadside rest areas
  • Location
  • Guidelines
  • Suburbs
  • Traffic safety
  • Design
  • Case studies
  • Costs
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-ICT-12-015 ; ICT-12-015 ; UILU ENG-2012-2015
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Chicago (Illinois)
• Corporate Publisher:
  Illinois. Dept. of Transportation. Division of Public and Intermodal Transportation
• Abstract:
  This study proposes a network of overnight truck parking facilities in south suburban Chicago intended to ; accomplish a wide range of federal, state, and local policy objectives. At the federal and state levels, this ; report’s policy objectives seek to increase traffic safety, reduce traffic congestion, address public safety and ; environmental concerns, and encourage economic security and satisfactory working conditions for the nation’s ; truck drivers. At the local level, this report’s policy objectives seek to implement brownfield containment and use ; strategies, support economic revitalization, reduce nuisance parking, and encourage industrial park owners and ; developers to create shared parking arrangements between trucks and automobiles. To achieve these ; objectives, the research team has identified key policy and design issues that are usually involved in planning ; and building overnight truck parking facilities. These issues include traffic safety, highway access, proximity to ; other freight facilities and industries, brownfield containment and utilization, neighborhood character, ; environmental issues, use of shared facilities, traffic flow, traffic/parking information systems, fencing/secured ; entry and exits, surveillance, lot size, pavement, drainage, striping, signage, lighting, and amenities. These ; issues are highlighted in case studies that will help municipalities and prospective investors interested in ; implementing overnight truck parking facilities. The research team has also provided a list of material ; improvements and their approximate costs to give a clearer picture of the capital needed to implement overnight ; truck parking facilities.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  ICT-R27-51
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/26707/dot_26707_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 17.67 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:97ee98c251db4f394b33aaa31c93ef08732fbd7b5e3d6890e4a5da580cbaf82d