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I-95 Corridor Coalition Truck Parking Workshop Marygrace Parker Tom McQueen, GDOT Dir. of Freight and Innovation in Transportation Intermodal Freight Committee Co-Chair, I-95 Corridor Coalition I-95 Corridor Coalition 1

Overview: Who is the I-95 Corridor Coalition? • The I-95 Corridor Coalition is a partnership whose membership includes: • State DOTS and regional transportation agencies, • toll authorities, and • public safety and related organizations from the State of Maine to the State of Florida, with affiliate members in Canada. • Provides a forum for key decision-makers to address transportation management and operations issues of common interest. • Volunteer, consensus-driven organization enables its myriad state, local and regional member agencies to work together to improve transportation system performance far more than they could working individually. • The Coalition has successfully served as a model for multi-state/multi- jurisdictional interagency cooperation and coordination for over two decades. I-95 Corridor Coalition – Truck Parking Workshop 2

Overview: Mission of the I-95 Corridor Coalition? • Since the 1990’s, the Coalition’s program has evolved from studying and testing intelligent transportation systems (ITS) technologies to now encompassing a broader perspective which embraces integrated deployments and coordinated operations. • The Coalition’s perspective evolved from a concentration on highways to one that encompasses all modes of travel and focuses on the efficient transfer of people and goods between modes . • Facilitation of regional incident management in areas such as pre-planning, coordination and communication among transportation and public safety agencies in the corridor remains a key part of the Coalition’s focus. • Today, the Coalition emphasizes information management as the underpinning of seamless operations across jurisdictions and modes . I-95 Corridor Coalition – Truck Parking Workshop 3

I-95 Corridor Coalition Freight Committee • Focus: promote reliable, efficient, and balanced transportation throughout the Coalition states by supporting leadership, information technology, and operations that improve the safe, reliable, efficient, multi-modal movement of freight. • Co-Chairs: • Laurie Carlson; Mass DOT • Thomas McQueen, GDOT • David Rosenberg, NYSDOT I-95 Corridor Coalition – Truck Parking Workshop 4

What is Truck Parking…? I-95 Corridor Coalition – Truck Parking Workshop 5

Truck Parking Workshop -- Background I-95 Corridor Coalition awarded Truck Parking Grant funds from the Federal Highway Administration • “Proof of Concept“ Test and Deployment of Real -Time Truck Parking System • System deployed in five rest areas in Virginia • Integrated into Virginia DOT’s Statewide ATMS • Virginia DOT assumed oversight and continued operation and maintenance March 1, 2018 6 I-95 Corridor Coalition – Truck Parking Workshop

Truck Parking Workshop - Background • Coalition FHWA- Funded Project statement-of- work (SOW) called for “sharing lessons learned” with other Coalition states • Included task for “ what’s next/what can we do for innovative approaches/strategies, convening states as well as industry sector to address shortage in truck parking spaces, enhance capacity I-95 Corridor Coalition – Truck Parking Workshop 7

Truck Parking Workshop -- Objective • Share recent truck parking activities: Who is doing what and is it working? • Further inform/enhance understanding among agencies on “state of the practice” currently with truck parking within I-95 Corridor Coalition states, and nationally. • Share lessons learned , build on experience from work of US DOT’s National Truck Parking Coalition • (taking lessons learned to implementation) • Develop a list of truck parking attributes necessary to create viable truck parking solutions • Create a pro-versus-con listing of various approaches (e.g., public lead, P3s, industry solutions) • Gain a better understanding of how changes in regulations (e.g., Electronic logging devices “ELD” and commercial activity in rest areas) and technology (e.g., truck platooning) could affect truck parking • Workshop Attendance: Primary focus was to convene “Operating Agencies” – • How to take best practices such as from National Truck Parking Coalition work among others and move to implementation. How did things get done? • Approx. 50 attendees including from 13 Coalition states DOT’s, Transportation/Toll Agencies and Missouri/Minnesota I-95 Corridor Coalition – Truck Parking Workshop 8

Defining the Truck Parking Problem: Why Now? What Response? • Truck parking shortages resulting from Contributing challenges for new spaces: outpaced truck parking demand • Shortage of truck parking spaces • Cost of land/real estate for truck parking • Implications from shifts/innovations in versus other land use supply chain logistics • “NIMBY” effect • Regulatory/legislative changes • Driver Shortages • Perception ” Exit ramps becoming truck parking lots thanks to federal rule change ” • Channel 9 News, Charlotte NC I-95 Corridor Coalition – Truck Parking Workshop 9

“What’s Happening With Truck Parking in Coalition States?” Presentations made by selected Coalition Members on their Truck Parking Initiatives: Florida DOT • FHWA TIGER Grant, Statewide Truck Parking Plan, Real Time Truck Parking Deployment Virginia DOT • Integration of I- 95 Corridor Coalition’s Real-Time Truck Parking System (fives sites on I-95 northbound in Virginia) into Virginia DOT’s Statewide ATMS • Truck Parking Information integrated into “ SmarterRoads ” data portal, allowing for dissemination to Apps (e.g., NASTO’s ParkMyTruck , TruckerPath ) and 3 rd party systems (i.e., WAZE , other real time truck parking systems) Pennsylvania Turnpike • Implementation of Truck Parking Management system; Addressing shortages by identifying parking shortfalls, demand locations; and Capacity Expansion for additional parking in Turnpike-owned rest areas Lehigh Valley Planning Commission • Addressing truck parking needs driven by expansion of manufacturing/distribution/warehouse growth in region by a ssessing strategies to incorporate truck parking needs into economic development planning, partnering with industry I-95 Corridor Coalition – Truck Parking Workshop 10

Presentations by state DOTs outside I-95 Corridor Coalition: Missouri DOT Minnesota DOT • Low Cost Capacity Expansion/improvements • Real Time Truck Parking System • “Recapture” of rest area facilities that were Deployment – lessons learned, closed and/or could not longer support large challenges scale operations • Data collection methods, • Better understanding of truck parking • Signage demand • Industry Engagement to address truck • Parking (for Hours-of Service reason) versus parking demand Staging I-95 Corridor Coalition – Truck Parking Workshop 11

“What Are Some Key Changes on the Horizon and Implications to Truck Parking?” Implications of E-Commerce Presentation by NC DOT • Shifting patterns in trucking demand; time sensitivities Emerging Technology Implications Presentation by American Trucking Association • Implications for truck parking as a result of implementing of new ELD rules, advancement of connected/automated vehicle technologies? (i.e. truck platooning) 12 I-95 Corridor Coalition – Truck Parking Workshop

Zeroing-In On What Public Agencies Can Do To Address Truck Parking Challenges Five Breakout Groups-Key Topic Areas Expanding Truck Capacity • What are key considerations regarding the location? • What regulatory barriers exist to expanding capacity (e.g., zoning, permits, land use) and how to we address them? Truck Parking Design Options • What considerations do you need to make with regard to data collection, storage, analytics and dissemination? Who owns data? Who needs to have access to data? Distribution of Info to Trucker • How do we get parking availability out to the private third party vendors like Apps, WAZE, others. • What do the truckers want? What communication method(s) do they believe are effective? What information do they most urgently need to make parking decisions? Making Decisions with Truck Parking Data • What data do you need to make investment decisions? • How important is it for you to understand truck parking demand resulting from HOS limits versus vehicles “staging” to enter distribution/warehouse/retail location/port? Education, Outreach and Key Stakeholders • . What has been the largest barrier to enhancing the understanding of truck parking needs and identifying a champion in your state? I-95 Corridor Coalition – Truck Parking Workshop 13

Wrap-Up: Bringing it Back to Your Office Roundtable Session • New ideas you can bring back to your public agency? • Proven, innovative; implementable • What knowledge capacity still needs to exist to continue pushing innovation and advancing solutions? • What regional action is necessary? • Addressing interoperability? Assessing shortages in parking: regional/corridor level? I- 95 Corridor Coalition’s Truck Parking Symposium (Fall 2018) • What topics should be targeted? • New ones, expanding on workshop topics with larger groups – public/private? • Who should we engage? I-95 Corridor Coalition – Truck Parking Workshop 14