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AASHTO SUBCOMMITTEE

HIGHWAY TRANSPORT7/9/2013

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ParkingCarma History

• Founded around 10 years ago to build a parking software platform

• Very early involvement with Smart Parking through work with U.C. Berkeley & Susan Shaheen’s team, Caltrans and BART

• Involved with many public private partnership projects

• Own the exclusive rights to patents for the processes of gathering and providing dynamic parking information


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Platform Flexibility


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Urban Parking• Search by location, or POI, or event• Return nearby locations that match user’s

preferences and are currently open• Return real-time parking space availability

at select facilities• Parking Reservations


Fifth levelSpecial Event Parking

• SF Giants• Rose Bowl• Comic-Con• AFI Fest


Fifth levelBART – Bay Area Rapid Transit Application

•Monthly permit management•Daily, Overnight & Airport Parking• Almost $1 million dollars a month in

transactions• 30,000 parkers using service


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Key Truck Parking Issues

• Persistent truck parking shortages • Demand exceeds capacity at many public & private stops.

• Trucker Safety: If truckers cannot find a rest stop, they may:• Continue to drive while fatigued• Factor in 16% of truck crashes and 8% of fatal crashes.• Illegally park on the side of ramps & freeways.

• Air Quality and Public Health• Parked trucks idle and release diesel emissions.

• Trucking Industry• Illegal parking & driving while fatigued are safety issues.• Driver productivity is lower due to the time lost searching for parking.


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Need for Action

• National shortage of Long-Term Freight Parking

• Critical Issue for Environment, Mobility, Commerce & Safety

• Recommended P3s to deploy availability information, and expansion of existing parking facilities


Fifth level“Some drivers we talked with spend as much as 2 ½ hours at the end of their day looking for a parking space. That’s nearly 23% of their 11 allowable hours of service”- Tom O’Brien, President and CEO of TravelCenters


Fifth levelAsk any truck driver in America what the biggest non-regulatory hassle is during their day, and many of them will tell you:

“Finding safe, cheap parking at the end of the shift.”


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Smart Truck Parking Overview

• The system provides the following capabilities:

• Truck Stop Attributes (gas, showers, wifi, etc.)

• Real-time and historical parking availability

• Capability to make advanced parking reservations.

• Truck specific routing information

• Parking check-in / check-out capability

How it works

STATIC DATA:• Truck stop location information• Amenities

DYNAMIC DATA:• Availability feeds (aggregated

occupancy)• Still-image pictures

“Gateway” API that “pushes” Third Party Data to STP

Database

THIRD-PARTY DATA:• Partners, Data Distributers• Content Providers

“REST” API that “pulls” data from the STP databases

“SOAP” API that “pushes” STP data to third party (Affiliate)

databases

STP Website and User Interfaces

3rd Party Websites and Mobile Apps


Fifth levelHelp truckers make better informed decisions about where to park:

• Pre-trip planning (prior to shift)

• Just-in-time (in-route)


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Smarttruckparking.com


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Smarttruckparking.com

Using availability sensors and still – camera images, the system is able to display reliable parking availability to truckers.


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Smart Truck Parking Mobile App

Features:• Current availability of parking• Sensor counts• Still image bird’s eye view

• Search• By nearest town• By distance from city• By Amenities• By truck stop name


Fifth levelThis is what we want to avoid!

Mobile App conforms to the US DOT requirements related to distracted driving


Fifth level• Supports dispatcher making reservations on behalf of driver

• Can bill either corporate account or individual driver

Project Owner Private Spaces

3,208 (86%)

1,946 (93%)

6,058 (73%)

1,160 (88%)

Projects Providing Availability Data


Fifth levelOn I-5 in California there are 3,802 private truck parking spaces (86%) and 600 public spaces

On SR99 there are 1,946 private truck parking spaces (93%) and 148 public spaces

CA Project Corridor


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Logistics Terminal, Lathrop CA

• It is a secure facility, with 24-hour staff and video monitoring, as well as a regular inventory taken.

• It has spare parking capacity usable by trucks, but is currently not known as an overnight truck parking facility.


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Flying J (Pilot), Lodi, CA

• Private truck stop with two entrances and 187 spaces

• Currently fills up at night


Fifth levelDetermining parking space availability –

How Hard Can it be?

The sensor technology is not as accurate is we would like


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• Traffic Analysis– Method (Inference)

• Analysis traffic in and out, • Determines net change based on in and out,• Adds net change to previous count• Provides New Count

– Types of Sensors• Loops, RF, Machine Visioning

• Space Analysis– Method (Direct Count)

• Monitoring Specific Spots or Zones

– Types of Sensors• Object Detection Still Image Cameras• Space Sensors, such as Micro-loops

•As truck leaves, reduces occupancy by one. •As truck enters, increases occupancy by one.•Total spaces known, so net change based on capacity

ParkingCarma Inc. Confidential

Loop SensorsParking Passport for Future Automated Reservation check in Loop Controller

Loops on entry/exit driveway

Video Traffic AnalysisVideo Camera Positioned to Monitor and Track Traffic at all Entrances/Exits

RF Tag Detection and Traffic AnalysisLoops on entry/exit driveway

RF antennas monitoring RF tags on ground every ¼ second

• I 94 Corridor from the Canadian border to Chicago• Partnering with HNTB• All public truck stops & 80% of private truck stops along

the route• Private truck stops to be live by the end of summer• Public truck stops to be live by the end of fall

MI Project Corridor

From the Canadian border to Chicago


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• 50% of the trucker driver respondents made their decisions about where to park within 6 hours of stopping.

• Approximately 50% of the surveyed truckers stated that they would be willing to pay $2/month for reliable parking availability information.

• Market studies have shown that truckers would be willing to pay roughly $1/reservation. Some TSOs have indicated a desire to pay those reservation fees to ParkingCarma as a benefit to their “high-roller” fleet vehicles.• TSA is doing an internal reservation pilot at $12/day

• Almost 48% of truckers surveyed said that If they can’t find parking at a truck stop they just keep driving

A National Opportunity

Currently 300,000 trucks park every night nationally

Next Steps

• Launch both the CA and MI STP projects

• Gather as much feedback from all project stakeholders• Truckers• Truck stop operators• CALTRANS• MDOT• Other DOTS

• Rollout Nationally

Next Steps

Focus on a unified national rollout approach

• Work on a private public partnership rollout focused on the top trucking corridors

• Work on standardization (APIs, data sharing, etc.)

• Truckers will get the most benefit from a single system nationally

• Cost and implementation time will be lower with a single national system

• Cost to operate a single network nationally is substantially cheaper

Rick WarnerCEOTRUCK SMART PAKING SERVICESBy ParkingCarma, Inc.(206) 390.7494

[email protected]

http://www.parkingcarma.com

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