On June 19th, URSA MAJOR neo and URSA Czech Republic held a workshop to elaborate on the topic of Intelligent Truck Parking.
41 participants, whom among were representatives and experts of various European National Road Authorities as well as logistics and truck companies, met in Prague and participated in a total of 11 presentations, ranging from individual implementations to ideas on how to further improve truck parking across Europe. Each presentation was followed by a discussion round, an interesting exchange of thoughts and opinions, highlighting very different aspects of the same topic, thus showing the benefit of gathering experts not only from the side which deploys implementations, but also experts from the end users’ side. The insight gained from this open discussion with representatives of the end users proved very advantageous to the National Road Authorities, with the added benefit of the end users feeling involved and having the opportunity to directly present their needs and recommendations.
In summary, this first joint workshop between these two actions can be regarded a success and a further step along the way to improve ITP along the European corridors.
The presentations can be downloaded below:
Block 1: ITS for safe and secure parking of HGV on TEN/T corridors – pilots, deployments, best practices, lessons learned
- Experience with the preparation of an information system on the occupancy of Truck parking areas on the TEN-T network in the Czech Republic
- Parking Management System for Trucks in Hungary
- Quality of ITP services – EU EIP current steps and future plans
- Truck Parking in Bavaria
Block 2: User and service provider perspective – information services, specific needs of truck drivers and transportation companies
- What Czech Truck Companies expect from ITP solutions
- ITP at the Port of Rotterdam
- Freight transport along the Brenner Motorway: measures undertaken to increase drivers’ comfort and safety
- Specific needs of transportation company
Block 3: Cross-border/cross-corridor information and content exchange