Truck parking is a multi-faceted problem. It is first and foremost a safety concern, as trucks park illegally and unsafely on highway shoulders and ramps. Truck parking shortfalls also highlight the capacity constraints at existing facilities, and the limited right-of-way that exists in the areas of the I-95 corridor with the highest demand for parking to accommodate new truck parking facilities. The lack of safe, convenient, and easy-to-find parking in the corridor forces truckers to make dangerous choices, with potentially deadly consequences.

The Truck Parking Availability System is designed to advise over-the-road truck drivers on the real-time availability of truck parking spaces. Because this effort is undertaken by the I-95 Corridor Coalition, rather than an individual state or agency, the system will not be limited by state boundaries or jurisdictional lines. The Truck Parking Availability System is composed of three major subsystems:

• Data Collection Subsystem – Collects raw vehicle occupancy data in designated truck parking areas.
• Data Integration Subsystem – Integrates and processes vehicle occupancy data collected from all instrumented truck parking areas to calculate parking availability by area.
• Data Dissemination/Traveler Information Subsystem – Disseminates real-time parking availability information to truck operators through a range of mechanisms and media.

In addition to the real-time information dissemination system, the truck parking improvement program will include select capacity expansion and augmentation projects.

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The I-95 Corridor Coalition, in conjunction with the New York State Department of Transportation, and in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), is undertaking a regional demonstration of Commercial Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (CVII)-based operations utilizing multi-agency, permanently deployed infrastructure.

The Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII) Program develops and tests an intelligent transportation system that uses 5.9 GHz dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) technologies to exchange real time information between VII-compliant roadside infrastructure and vehicles to improve safety, security, mobility, and transportation system asset management. Since most of the national VII efforts have focused almost exclusively on passenger vehicles, New York’s CVII Program will concentrate on development, testing and demonstration of commercial vehicle-in-vehicle hardware and software to allow data message sets (DMS) to be transmitted wirelessly via DSRC. The applications to be tested will include driver and vehicle safety information, including but not limited to, using Transportation Workers Identification Card (TWIC) and biometrics as well as other vehicle and driver safety and screening applications, as noted in the graphic below.

The CVII Program also includes a field demonstration of the 5.9 GHz DSRC commercial vehicle based systems along active highway corridors including VII deployed sections of NYSDOT’s I-495 Long Island Expressway and the New York State Thruway Authority’s I-87 Spring Valley Corridor. The CVII Program is scheduled to take approximately two years to complete.

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