Truck Parking According to the truck parking data from TxDOT’s 2020 Texas Statewide Truck Parking Study, as shown in Figure 8 , there are six private truck parking facilities within the City of Fort Worth boundary, four additional private truck parking facilities within a 1.5-mile buffer of the city boundary. Out of these 10 private parking facilities, five have less than 25 parking spots, three have 25-49 parking spots, one has 50-99 parking spots, and one has more than 100 parking spots. Four facilities along IH-35W are experiencing capacity issues as they are over capacity for more than 20 hours per day. No public truck parking facilities are found in or near the Fort Wort city boundary. There are around 10 publicly owned truck parking facilities in the Metroplex area, which include local travel information centers and county rest areas. Key factors influencing parking demand include industrial activities such as distribution centers, warehousing, and manufacturing, that generate truck traffic, major highways with high truck volumes require truck stops and rest areas to accommodate long-haul drivers, local regulations, land use policies, as well as available parking infrastructure. In addition to short breaks such as eating, refueling, using bathrooms, drivers participating in interstate commerce are required to rest for a period of 8 hours after driving a maximum of 10 hours under the current federal HOS rules. These regulations resulted in a demand for long-term parking spaces, because long-haul drivers must complete a period of rest while en route to a destination. Taken together, these factors can result in complex demand patterns for truck parking along roadway segments. Stretches of a highway that are 8 to 10 hours from a key distribution center might be expected to have higher parking demand because the HOS rules will force drivers originating travel from that center to take an extended rest before resuming driving. Although these factors help determine the total demand for truck parking in an area (i.e., the latent demand), other factors help determine how that demand is distributed among the available parking locations (i.e., the demand choice). If one stretch of highway has a shortage of parking locations, demand that cannot be met on that stretch of highway will be met by parking locations on nearby stretches of highway. 3 The Texas Statewide Truck Study used truck GPS to analyze truck parking demand. 4 Specifically, The GPS data collected by ATRI represents a sample of trucks on Texas roadways. Long-haul drivers and large carriers are more likely to be included than independent owner-operators or
3 NCHRP Synthesis 317: Dealing with Truck Parking Demands. https:/ onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_syn_317c3.pdf 4 Texas Truck Parking Study, TxDOT. https:/ ftp.txdot.gov/pub/txdot/move -texas-freight/studies/truck- parking/final -report.pdf
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