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Secure Parking Areas

Programs, initiatives and case studies in Germany

Geneva, 15 February 2013

Contents

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• Figures of security in Europe and Germany

• Figures of attacks against drivers in Europe and Germany

• Strategies for Truck Parking

• Development programme

• Lightning

• ITP

• Resume

Secure Truck Parking in Europe

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Fixed factor for

losses per trip

Secure Truck Parking in Germany

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Research

• Federal Criminal Police Office

• insurance and logistic organizations

Damage

• 100 Mio. € including dark figure, 40 % on TPA (insurance organizations)

• 70-80 complete trucks have been stolen (Federal Criminal Police Office)

Security seems to be a minor problem in D (police, ministry of interior, logistic organizations)

more important: building new parking slots (logistic organizations)

Attacks against Truck Drivers in Europe

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IRU-ITF survey (2008)

• 2,005 HGV drivers have been questioned

• One in six drivers attacked in the last 5 years

• 61% of attacks in TPA

Attacks against Truck Drivers in Germany

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Federal Highway Research Institute (2009)The effects of strain and stress on the traffic behaviour of HGV drivers:

• 555 HGV drivers have been questioned

• 39 possible strain and stress factors

• Fear of attacks is on rank 29, after:

• search for a parking space

• other road users

• no service on the rest areas

• Congestions

• lack of time

• …

Is Germany a secure place for truck parking?

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Security seems to be a minor problem in D

• Drivers feel secure

• The erased damage is rather low (40 Mio. € on TPA)

Reasons for the rather good security

• Germany defines TPA as a part of the infrastructure

• Public investments in TPA

• Small number of lay-by parking

• (Systematic police controls)

Strategies

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• Calculation of the HGV parking demand

• Speed up implementation of the development programme

• Illumination of the TPA

• Parking space management (ITP)

Current situation along the motorways in GermanyNetwork length: 12,800 km

Public rest areas• 431 with service (filling station,

restaurant, lavatories etc.)

• ca. 1,550 without service

(only lavatories)

Private trucks stops• 190 truck stops

• nearby the motorway

• no legal part of the motorway

• traffic sign on the highway, if e.g.:

max. 1 km away from the exit,

opening time 24h and all-year

minimum of HGV-parking spaces (50/100)

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rest areaBaden-Baden (A 5)

Calculation of the HGV Parking demand

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Nationwide survey atrest areas/truck stopsbetween 10 pm- 3 am on 3 nights at all restareas and private truck stops

findings:current requirementsapprox. 14,000 HGV parking spaces

Visualization ofthe survey

Number ofparking spaces

As at:March 2008 survey

Rest areas 28,500

Truck stops 17,900

Summe 46,400

Development programme

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reduce unsafe parkingand lay-by

2008 - 2012:

• 10,000 new HGV parking spaces on

rest areas

• investment € 500 million

2013 and following:

• 2,000 parking slots under construction

• further 9,000 HGV parking slots

• 2013 invest of 130 € million

rest areaDammer Berge (A 1)

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Lighting of TPA

• every rest area with service

• German Guideline „ERS“:every rest area without service and more than 30 parking slots

• New technology: LED as trigger

• Research and developement

• efficiency

Intelligent Truck Parking

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Data collection (static/real time)

Data exchange

Data dissemenation

Data collection

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• Static data: New nationwide survey in 2013

• Dynamic Data: 15 Pilots

• Single parking bay detection / Access/Exit detection

• Magnetic field sensors, Video detection, Inductive

loops, Video detection, Radar-ultrasonic-detection

Combination of detection methods

• Challenges for detection methods

• vehicle classes (2+1, 8+1), varying dimensions,

inhomogeneous speed, convoy, bad parked

vehicles, blocked parking spaces

Data Exchange and dissemination

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• Public TPA-operator:data supplier

• Mobility data market placewww.mdm-portal.de (DATEX II)

• No VMS in the future

• Get the information in the cabinof the vehicles

• Private service operators OBU, apps, navigation devices

Parking information system for 22 TPAfunctional description (classification, detection rate)

Resume

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• D builds a lot of new slots and illuminate the TPA→ basic security on public TPA

• D guides the drivers to the TPA

→ Secure TPA: private business model for truck stops

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Thank you for your attention!

Jürgen Abs

E-Mail: ref-stb12@bmvbs.bund.de

Division StB 12

Federal Ministry of Transport,

Building and Urban Development

Robert-Schuman- Platz 1

D-53175 Bonn