Summary

Because of lack of private and public parking for commercial vehicles, more trucks are parking illegally on ramps and shoulders and truck driver fatigue is increasing. Both are causing more safety hazards and crashes. In response to these problems, the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) authorizes $25 million dollars for the establishment of the Truck Parking Facilities Pilot Program. This project is a four-part study, building on PATH project, "Strategies for Linking Trucking and Smart Parking Technologies."

The first part of the study conducts a problem evaluation with expert interviews, literature review, and data analysis of the commercial vehicle parking problem. The second part identifies federal funding opportunities for Caltrans to leverage for this problem for the final report. The third part of this study conducts extensive shareholder outreach program intended to understand the institutional barriers to implementing commercial vehicle parking solutions in California. The fourth part of this study holds two workshops in California (one workshop in Northern California, the other in Southern California) to brief stakeholders on the commercial vehicle parking problem and develop alternative solutions, research, and deployment strategies.

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