Trucker Path Determines Worst Region for Truck Parking
When a private application on a smartphone takes your private data, sometimes it is not to sell you more products through advertisements. Sometimes, the data can be used to discover valuable information to solve problems. This is what the developers behind Trucker Path, a company designed around solving problems for the trucking industry, have decided how it will use its data regarding users finding parking spots. Dividing the contiguous United States (plus Alaska) into six regions, they have found where the least available parking is based on user data.
Methodology
Users can report to Trucker Path if they are unable to find a parking spot. By doing this and combining the information with the user’s location, Trucker Path can determine which states, and by extension, region, are the most crowded when it is time to buckle down to be off-duty.
In order from least crowded to most crowded, here is what they found:
- North Central: A squarish shape from North Dakota and Utah to Minnesota and Missouri. 15% of submissions said no parking spaces were found.
- Midwest: States such as Illinois and Kentucky had a 17% rate of no parking.
- West: California, Arizona, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, and Alaska reported no parking available 19% of the time.
- South Central: from new Mexico to Louisiana, 20%, or one in five, entries said there was no parking to be found.
- Northeast: Smaller states such as Vermont and Maine came in second at 21%.
- Southeast: Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and many of its neighbors averaged 23% maximum occupancy rate.
Conclusion
This data can be used to provide a lot of clarity for both public and private institutions on where they should focus their efforts on placing more truck parking. For instance, Florida has been on a roll in providing support for the trucking industry as of late, and may use this data to opt for more state funding of parking spaces.
Solving the truck parking problem will take collaboration from all aspects of the trucking industry, ranging from private truck stops to local governments, so this data should prove to be valuable in knowing where to place additional spots.
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