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Title:

A Web-Based GIS Tool to Collect and Disseminate Truck Parking Information

Accession Number:

01127367

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Transportation planning and operations often require spatial data collection from stakeholders such as carriers, shippers, and freight planners. With the advent of web-based and interactive mapping technologies, it has been possible to gather, analyze, visualize and distribute geo-spatial information over the internet and across the world. The World Wide Web, serving as a medium to link various distributed stakeholders, can be used for collecting transport related geographic data. However, most systems focus on presenting pre-analyzed geo-spatial data on web. This paper presents an interactive web-based GIS tool being used to gather and disseminate such information. This online tool greatly enhances communication between stakeholders to foster public-private partnerships for better transportation planning and operations. This research focuses on truck parking along major freight corridors along interstate highways within the 10-state Mississippi Valley Region and state highways in Wisconsin. With increasing freight traffic on highways over the past decade, freight infrastructure is facing serious challenges in maintaining an uninterrupted flow of interstate movements. Communication via spatial information is essential in addressing such issues. Location specific information can be easily collected using the survey tool developed in this research. Distant participants can mark spots on an underlying Google map, answer questions, and make comments over the internet. The results from analysis of the collected information can be disseminated online graphically. We also introduce the process and results of applying this web-based survey tool to address truck parking issues in Mississippi Valley region.

Monograph Accession #:

01120148

Report/Paper Numbers:

09-2936

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Srivastava, Praveen
Wang, Bruce (Xiubin)
Adams, Teresa
Guo, Jessica Y

Pagination:

21p

Publication Date:

2009

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 88th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2009-1-11 to 2009-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

DVD

Features:

Figures; Maps; References; Tables (1)

Candidate Terms:

Geospatial analysis

Identifier Terms:

Google Earth

Geographic Terms:

Mississippi

Subject Areas:

Freight Transportation; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2009 Paper #09-2936

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Jan 30 2009 7:19PM