Evaluation of Iowa Truck Parking Information & Management System
Iowa is one of eight participating states of the Mid America Association of State Transportation Officials (MAASTO) region, along with Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin that are involved in a multistate truck parking initiative to develop a real time truck parking information management system (TPIMS). This system will collect and provide data to the freight transportation industry to inform drivers of available parking spaces at predetermined locations along certain corridors. The MAASTO's vision is to "strengthen America's freight network by helping commercial truckers make safer, more efficient parking decisions through a user-focused information service that consistently provides timely, reliable parking availability information." The TPIMS will enable remote monitoring and detection of available truck parking spaces at public and private parking facilities on designated, major interstate and highway corridors across the eight-state region. Although other states in the MAASTO region will disseminate the parking availability information through conventional variable message signs, Iowa DOT has proposed to broadcast the truck parking information through apps, Iowa 511, and in-cab information systems, eliminating the needs for installing and maintaining variable message signs. In 2017 Iowa DOT selected eX2 Technology as the prime contractor to design, build, operate and maintain a real-time TPIMS program along Iowa's 1-80 corridor. The field deployment is expected to take place from February 2018 to the end of September 2018, followed by a 60-day burn-in period from November to December 2018 for testing and validation. The system will go live on January 4, 2019 and remain in operation for 3 years. The Center for Transportation Research and Education (CTRE) at Iowa State University is tasked to evaluate the performance of the TPIMS, in terms of the accuracy, reliability, and effectiveness. In particular, during the TPIMS deployment and testing period CTRE will collect relevant data to evaluate the accuracy of the parking availability data collected by the sensors. After the system goes live, CTRE will develop various performance measures to evaluate the effectiveness of the innovative information dissemination approach through apps, Iowa 511, and in-cab information systems, compared to the conventional variable message sign approach.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Completed
- Funding: $75000
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Contract Numbers:
Addendum 651
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Sponsor Organizations:
Iowa Department of Transportation
800 Lincoln Way
Ames, IA United States 50010 -
Managing Organizations:
Institute for Transportation
2711 South Loop Drive, Suite 4700
Ames, Iowa United States 50010-8664 -
Project Managers:
Mescher, Phillip
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Principal Investigators:
Dong, Jing
- Start Date: 20180201
- Expected Completion Date: 20190131
- Actual Completion Date: 0
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Accuracy; Mobile applications; Parking; Parking guidance systems; Sensors; Trucks
- Identifier Terms: Interstate 80
- Geographic Terms: Iowa
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Motor Carriers; Operations and Traffic Management;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01668741
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Iowa Department of Transportation
- Contract Numbers: Addendum 651
- Files: RIP, STATEDOT
- Created Date: May 8 2018 4:23PM