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TRANSPark is an interactive internet application that helps drivers and transport company operations managers locate parking areas for trucks, buses, and coaches. It also provides a range of information including route planning, slot availability, fuel prices, border waiting times, traffic restrictions, security guidelines, weather conditions, currency converter, legal advice, and support. The database is constantly updated and available free of charge.
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TRANSPark Peter KRAUSZ, IRU, Head – Goods Transport and Facilitation UNECE SC1, Geneva, 21 October 2009
TRANSPark – History & Database • Database developed over many years by the IRU together with its Members and with the International Transport Forum (ITF) / national Ministries of Transport • Sources of other Information Hub services, are exclusively based on IRU-owned databases and external applications like Google
TRANSPark - Purpose Lack of parking areas – Governments to act Joint ITF-IRU IT development initiative – objective: Security,Safety, Social rules, Business, Comfort Truck and bus & coach modules Printed version Internet application
TRANSPark - What is it? • Interactive internet application with search functions to locate parking areas (trucks and, at a later stage, buses and coaches) • Driver Start-Up Point, a genuine Professional Driver Information Hub for assisting drivers and transport company operations managers (= Driver Information One-Stop Shop)
TRANSPark - Maps • TRANSPark maps - the heart of the application, based on Google Maps • GEO-Coordinates: the Alpha and Omega • Today, TRANSPark contains 2880 parking areas, of which 1820 (63.19%) have been “GEO-identified and 1060 are still to be in 43 countries
TRANSPark: the ultimate one stop-shop for information • Search: radius, text (address), advanced search • route planner; • Slot availability • fuel prices in 40 countries; • border waiting times; • flash information on traffic restrictions; • security guidelines and checklists; • weather conditions; • currency converter; • legal advice and support; • easy to update by external data submitters Free of charge, also in a portable device-friendly format!