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Title A Comprehensive System for Assessing Truck Parking Availability
Date Posted 3/2/2017
URL http://www.its.umn.edu/Publications/ResearchReports/reportdetail.html?id=2564
Description The University of Minnesota and American Transportation Research Institute developed and evaluated a system architecture to distribute truck parking availability information via three different methodologies: roadside message signs, a website, and an onboard application with geolocation functionality. The system provided parking data with 95% accuracy or better over the 16- to 30-month evaluation period.

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