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Tennessee tests smart parking lots with real-time parking space information

Gannett Fleming employees work to install communication conduit for a smart park for trucks rest location on the Interstate 75 corridor in Bradley County. The conduit is being placed underground to service 8 cameras and radar equipment that will inform trucking internet users as to parking availability on the lot at the 23 mile-marker of northbound I-75. Five reserved spots and 22 open parking spaces will be available at the Bradley County location.
Gannett Fleming employees work to install communication conduit for a smart park for trucks rest location on the Interstate 75 corridor in Bradley County. The conduit is being placed underground to service 8 cameras and radar equipment that will inform trucking internet users as to parking availability on the lot at the 23 mile-marker of northbound I-75. Five reserved spots and 22 open parking spaces will be available at the Bradley County location. Gannett Fleming employees work to install communication conduit for a smart park for trucks rest location on the Interstate 75 corridor in Bradley County. The conduit is being placed underground to service 8 cameras and radar equipment that will inform trucking internet users as to parking availability on the lot at the 23 mile-marker of northbound I-75. Five reserved spots and 22 open parking spaces will be available at the Bradley County location.

By Ben Benton 3 min read

Smart truck parking

The SmartPark reservation system is not yet fully functional, but should be operational in the next few weeks. Truckers can go to www.smartpark4trucks.com to learn more. Truckers can go to http://www.smartparkingusa.com to reserve parking at the McMinn site and soon can reserve a spot at the Bradley location. A SmartPark mobile app is available at the site. Use of the site requires minimal registration.

Big-rig truckers’ smartphones soon can help them find parking space along the Interstate 75 corridor in East Tennessee with the opening of a couple of new, high-tech research sites to study the feasibility of providing real-time parking information to truckers on the road.

The Tennessee Department of Transportation and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration have teamed up on the project, dubbed SmartPark. It consists of one study site already opened on the northbound side of I-75 at the rest area near the 45-mile marker south of Athens, Tenn., and another developing site at northbound mile marker 23 south of exit 25 in Cleveland.

Officials say the idea is to allow the two sites to be networked in real time so truckers can be diverted from one site to the other when spaces fill up, so they will have time to rest.

TDOT spokeswoman Jennifer Flynn said Friday that crews this week are working on the Bradley County site, a formerly unimproved trucker rest stop.