Truck Parking Facilities and Ramp Parking: Role of Supply, Demand, and Ramp Characteristics
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2016-01-01
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Abstract:Faced with increasing commercial vehicle (CMV) traffic and static revenue, public agencies cannot contend with providing adequate public parking for CMVs leading to overcapacity facilities and resulting in ramp parking. This study analyzes Tennessee’s primary freeways to assess truck facilities in addition to inventorying the usage of ramps shoulders for overnight parking during the peak hours of weekdays. The authors used CMV drivers’ perspectives and behaviors on the parking problem through a survey along with examining ramp characteristics and ramp parking to identify factors that influence illegal ramp parking. The results illustrate that among the 94 truck facilities, 73 locations had a utilization rate of 75% or greater with the average of 89.9%. We examined 854 rural ramp attributes as well as the parking of 295 CMVs along 134 ramps. Diamond interchanges, wider shoulder, absence of no parking on shoulder signs, smaller width and fewer lanes near the intersection, and longer ramps were significant factors of parked CMVs. Through CMV drivers’ responses of a survey, the consensus was there is a parking shortage especially between 7 pm and 4 am, which is the reason for parking along traveling corridor ramps. Building more parking facilities and improving real-time driver parking information should be considered to reduce ramp parking.
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