VWFS acquires majority share in Truck Parking Europe in Utrecht
Volkswagen Financial Services (VWFS) is acquiring a 75% stake in Utrecht-based Truck Parking Europe with the aim of improving safety for truck drivers in the Netherlands.
Truck Parking Europe - a PTV company - offers a range of services for truck drivers, planners, dispatchers and parking operators via a free app for Android, iOS and the web. These services allow users to filter and find truck platooning locations, connect with other truck drivers, the possibility to claim and secure parking locations a
February 27, 2019
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994 Volkswagen Financial Services (VWFS) is acquiring a 75% stake in Utrecht-based Truck Parking Europe with the aim of improving safety for truck drivers in the Netherlands.
Truck Parking Europe - a 3264 PTV company - offers a range of services for truck drivers, planners, dispatchers and parking operators via a free app for Android, iOS and the %$Linker: 2External<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary />000link-external webfalsehttps://app.truckparkingeurope.com/#/falsefalse%>. These services allow users to filter and find truck platooning locations, connect with other truck drivers, the possibility to claim and secure parking locations and to book and pay for parking locations online.
Niels de Zwaan, managing director of PTV Truckparking, says the partnership will allow the company to further link its truck parking infrastructure to planning, logistics and communication systems.
"In this way, we contribute to making the drivers’ working environment safer while reducing traffic searching for parking spaces. Moreover, we help reduce cargo theft and improve planning efficiency for logistics planners and dispatchers," Zwaan adds.
PTV Group has launched the PTV Vision traffic add-in marketplace (link vision-traffic.ptvgroup.com/en/add-in), where its developers and users can discuss and learn about new features and functions of the company’s PTV Visum and PTV Vissim products and contribute their own add-ins.
"In the last few years, a secondary market has built up around our transport planning software, where users of PTV Visum and PTV Vissim offer valuable functional extensions," said Dr Klaus Nökel, vice president Traffic Softwar
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Time is running out to submit nominations for the 2016 Gulf Traffic awards, which honour those companies and persons who have shown their commitment to developing and improving projects, initiatives or products for the benefit of the public and the region.
Categories include: best new parking produce or supplier; ITS product of the year; consultancy of the year; contractor of the year; TRL student award; product innovation award; and many others.
Submit nominations before 25 September 2016. More infor