International Conference on Transportation and Development 2020
Data Archiving and Performance Measurement for a Multi-State Truck Parking Information Management System (TPIMS)
Publication: International Conference on Transportation and Development 2020
ABSTRACT
Trucker fatigue has become a national epidemic. Unavailability of sufficient parking spaces during various periods at rest areas results in illegal and unsafe parking at on/off-ramps and other unauthorized areas, which may lead to traffic safety hazards. To provide better trucking parking information for truck drivers and improve freight operations safety, eight state members of the Mid-America Association of State Transportation Officials (MAASTO) have joined together and developed a real-time, multi-state truck parking information management system (TPIMS). TPIMS has been fully operational from January 4th, 2019, and is providing real-time parking availability information to truck drivers and dispatchers and traffic management centers (TMCs). A centralized TPIMS data archival system (TPIMS-DAS) is developed to archive real-time TPIMS data from all the eight participating MAASTO States in order to evaluate and track TPIMS performance. This paper presents the system architecture of TPIMS-DAS, system performance measures, and the next phase applications. By July 2019, TPIMS-DAS has archived more than 23 million records about parking availability and site information for 153 parking sites across eight states. Additional TPIMS-DAS functionalities, such as automated performance metric calculation, the web interface for data access, and visualization, are also under development. Data and performance metrics provided by TPIMS-DAS are expected to provide insights for states to improve and coordinate parking facility improvements and improve corridor traffic safety.
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International Conference on Transportation and Development 2020
Pages: 251 - 260
Editor: Guohui Zhang, Ph.D., University of Hawaii
ISBN (Online): 978-0-7844-8315-2
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Published online: Aug 31, 2020
Published in print: Aug 31, 2020
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