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Providing digital access to truck parking space around Amsterdam Airport Schiphol A solution for wrongly parked vehicles and queues of trucks waiting to access their docking station. Fewer unnecessary kilometres driven by truckers searching for a place to wait or park in an unfamiliar area. And an easy way to find a safe place to rest or uncouple a trailer. These are a few advantages of digitally facilitating parking locations for trucks in a busy environment such as the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area. Within Connected Transport Corridors program, the Amsterdam Westkant corridor, Royal Schiphol Group and Be-Mobile are starting to digitally map parking and waiting locations in the Schiphol Cargo World area.
Text Anke Hoets, Amsterdam Logistics Photography Elmer van der Marel
TP3, or Truck Parking 3, on Folkstoneweg in Schiphol-Zuidoost, is the scene of the action. This well-lit, paid parking facility has space for 70 trucks. Drivers can take a shower, do laundry and rest as they wait to continue their journey
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to their airport destination. Erik Felëus of Schiphol Commercial adds: “They can do so in the knowledge that TP3 is a closed site with CCTV surveillance.” At present, drivers who manage to find their way to TP3 have to wait and see if there is space. But in a digital age, it doesn’t have to be that way, explains Janneke Nijsing, programme manager of CTC Amsterdam Westkant. In recent
months she has been closely involved in developing what she describes as the ‘truck area digitisation showcase’. “In a practical trial taking place in the coming months, we’ll be laying the foundation for a data sharing system for parking and waiting sites. The showcase demonstrates how data sharing could work for parking and waiting locations. We hope the result will be a realistic analysis of opportunities and bottlenecks for the digitisation process.”
Testing in practice The method is to provide access to static and dynamic data on matters such as location, opening hours, available facilities, charges and the total number of parking spaces. The static data is publicly available, managed by the Netherlands Vehicle Authority
