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Dealing with Truck Parking Demands

Author : Jeffrey W. Trombly

Publisher : Transportation Research Board

Page : 46 pages

File Size : 43,44 MB

Release : 2003

Category : Roadside rest areas

ISBN : 0309069637

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TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 317: Dealing with Truck Parking Demands identifies successful and innovative strategies that have been implemented by transportation agencies, as well as potential strategies yet to be deployed in order to meet the increasing demand for truck parking. The report examines the legislative authority governing the provision of truck parking by state transportation agencies, including federal requirements and selected state laws. An analysis is provided of the demand for truck parking.



Geospatial Analysis and Modelling of Urban Structure and Dynamics

Author : Bin Jiang

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 465 pages

File Size : 41,39 MB

Release : 2010-06-16

Category : Science

ISBN : 9048185726

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A Coming of Age: Geospatial Analysis and Modelling in the Early Twenty First Century Forty years ago when spatial analysis first emerged as a distinct theme within geography’s quantitative revolution, the focus was largely on consistent methods for measuring spatial correlation. The concept of spatial au- correlation took pride of place, mirroring concerns in time-series analysis about similar kinds of dependence known to distort the standard probability theory used to derive appropriate statistics. Early applications of spatial correlation tended to reflect geographical patterns expressed as points. The perspective taken on such analytical thinking was founded on induction, the search for pattern in data with a view to suggesting appropriate hypotheses which could subsequently be tested. In parallel but using very different techniques came the development of a more deductive style of analysis based on modelling and thence simulation. Here the focus was on translating prior theory into forms for generating testable predictions whose outcomes could be compared with observations about some system or phenomenon of interest. In the intervening years, spatial analysis has broadened to embrace both inductive and deductive approaches, often combining both in different mixes for the variety of problems to which it is now applied.



Commercial Vehicle Parking

Author : T. H. Maze

Publisher :

Page : 44 pages

File Size : 31,63 MB

Release : 1999

Category : Automobile parking

ISBN :

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The purpose of the study was to review Iowa's public policy issues related to the state provision of overnight commercial truck parking and to make recommendations regarding the same. It was decided to limit the research and data gathering to a study of national trends in public commercial truck parking at facilities along and adjacent to Iowa's interstate highways.



The Ultimate Truck Parking Guide 10th Edition

Author : Leroy Clemmer

Publisher :

Page : 390 pages

File Size : 17,49 MB

Release : 2020-11-16

Category :

ISBN :

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The Ultimate Truck Parking Guide was written for over-the-road truck drivers. The primary purpose of the book is to provide a comprehensive list of tractor-trailer parking locations. In fact, this book provides over 11,000 locations. Whether looking to find over night or short-term parking, drivers utilizing this book will quickly realize the benefit of having their own copy. Additionally, the book is an eating guide, shopping guide, entertainment guide and a money saving guide. As a parking guide: it includes parking locations such as truck stops, travel plazas, pharmacies, hospitals, rest areas, truck only parking areas, weigh stations, and motels. As an eating guide: the book includes grocery stores, full service and fast food restaurants such as Golden Corral, Applebees, Cracker Barrel, Starbucks, Buffalo Wild Wings and Longhorn Steakhouse. As a shopping guide: it includes department stores such as Walmart Supercenters, Malls, Kohl's and Target. As an entertainment guide: it includes casinos, flea markets, cinemas, water parks, amusement parks, fishing holes, golf courses, beach parking, and more. As a money saving guide: notes are made throughout the book in reference to where drivers can receive free WIFI, free coffee, free showers, free snacks, free soft drinks, free laundry, free sanitary dumps and even a $20 motel room.The book also offers the following unique advantages: In most cases, exact count as to how many trucks can fit on the lot. Businesses within close walking distance are noted in parenthesis. Notes as to what side of the highway the business is on and directions if needed. ABOUT THE AUTHOR - The author is a truck driver with 26 years of over-the-road experience. He knows firsthand what it is like to be greeted with signs that read "No Trucks", "Two Hour Parking", and "No Overnight Parking". From the beginning of his career, he quickly realized the value of documenting businesses that allow tractor-trailer parking. The Ultimate Truck Parking Guide contains his personal journal of parking locations and is his most treasured resource when looking for a place to park. Many drivers upon seeing his journal expressed a desire to obtain a copy and encouraged him to publish it. For those drivers and for you...he says "Enjoy!"



Strong Towns

Author : Charles L. Marohn, Jr.

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 262 pages

File Size : 49,79 MB

Release : 2019-10-01

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1119564816

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A new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizes Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co-founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem. Inside, you’ll learn why inducing growth and development has been the conventional response to urban financial struggles—and why it just doesn’t work. New development and high-risk investing don’t generate enough wealth to support itself, and cities continue to struggle. Read this book to find out how cities large and small can focus on bottom-up investments to minimize risk and maximize their ability to strengthen the community financially and improve citizens’ quality of life. Develop in-depth knowledge of the underlying logic behind the “traditional” search for never-ending urban growth Learn practical solutions for ameliorating financial struggles through low-risk investment and a grassroots focus Gain insights and tools that can stop the vicious cycle of budget shortfalls and unexpected downturns Become a part of the Strong Towns revolution by shifting the focus away from top-down growth toward rebuilding American prosperity Strong Towns acknowledges that there is a problem with the American approach to growth and shows community leaders a new way forward. The Strong Towns response is a revolution in how we assemble the places we live.





Low Cost Strategies to Increase Truck Parking in Wisconsin

Author :

Publisher :

Page : 76 pages

File Size : 15,77 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Truck parking

ISBN :

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This report documents a study of truck parking issues along the major state highways in Wisconsin. The effort builds upon another project at the National Center for Freight and Infrastructure Research and Education (CFIRE) funded by the Mississippi Valley Freight Coalition to study the truck parking issues on Interstate highways in the ten-state AASHTO Mississippi Valley Region. This study also inventories both public and private parking facilities along a select number of state highways. A web geographic information system (GIS) tool was developed for continuous survey and public participation. The study surveyed highway patrol officers, public freight planners, and truckers to identify parking facilities incommensurate with truck parking needs. It proposes a method for ranking parking facilities identified as having the most need of additional truck parking capacity. Building on a review of previous studies and face-to-face interviews with carriers, the report contains a discussion of why existing parking facilities do not meet needs and describes a set of low cost strategies for addressing truckers' parking needs.



Truck parking areas

Author :

Publisher : DIANE Publishing

Page : 38 pages

File Size : 29,84 MB

Release : 2000

Category :

ISBN : 1428996494

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High Cost of Free Parking

Author : Donald Shoup

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 752 pages

File Size : 45,47 MB

Release : 2021-02-25

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 1351178679

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Off-street parking requirements are devastating American cities. So says the author in this no-holds-barred treatise on the way parking should be. Free parking, the author argues, has contributed to auto dependence, rapid urban sprawl, extravagant energy use, and a host of other problems. Planners mandate free parking to alleviate congestion, but end up distorting transportation choices, debasing urban design, damaging the economy, and degrading the environment. Ubiquitous free parking helps explain why our cities sprawl on a scale fit more for cars than for people, and why American motor vehicles now consume one-eighth of the world's total oil production. But it doesn't have to be this way. The author proposes new ways for cities to regulate parking, namely, charge fair market prices for curb parking, use the resulting revenue to pay for services in the neighborhoods that generate it, and remove zoning requirements for off-street parking.



Urban Freight Transportation Systems

Author : Ralf Elbert

Publisher : Elsevier

Page : 316 pages

File Size : 37,2 MB

Release : 2019-09-30

Category : Transportation

ISBN : 0128173629

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Urban Freight Transportation Systems offers new insights into the complexities of today's urban freight transport system. It provides a much needed multidisciplinary perspective from researchers in not only transportation, but also engineering, business management, planning and the law. The book examines numerous critical issues, such as strategies for delivery, logistics and freight transport spatial patterns, urban policy assessment, innovative transportation technologies, urban hubs, and the role factories play in the urban freight transport system. The book offers a novel conceptual approach for addressing the problems of production, logistics and traffic in an urban context. As most of the world's population now live in cities, thus significantly increasing commercial traffic, there are numerous challenges for efficiently and sustainably delivering goods into cities. This book provides solutions and tactics to those challenges.