Award for PTV’s truck parking app

PTV Group’s truck parking app, Truck Parking Europe has been awarded this year's telematics award in the Best Innovation category at the recent IAA Commercial Vehicles exhibition. Launched in November 2013 for iOS devices, the app now lists over 15,000 registered parking spaces along Europe's main traffic routes. It is now available as an Android application and is said to be the largest free platform for lorry parking, with plenty of additional features and information on their availability. Drivers
October 8, 2014 Read time: 2 mins
3264 PTV Group’s truck parking app, Truck Parking Europe has been awarded this year's telematics award in the Best Innovation category at the recent IAA Commercial Vehicles exhibition.

Launched in November 2013 for iOS devices, the app now lists over 15,000 registered parking spaces along Europe's main traffic routes. It is now available as an Android application and is said to be the largest free platform for lorry parking, with plenty of additional features and information on their availability.

Drivers can search for parking spaces, rate them, add new ones and make corrections to existing information. The constantly growing parking database contains both officially designated truck parking places and car parks, as well as other suitable parking places off the motorway, such as industrial areas, continuously checked and updated by the editorial team and the community.

The ‘driving mode’ function uses route intelligence to show parking spaces along the route which require a total detour of no more than six kilometres, while the ‘availability status’ function updates drivers on the availability status of parking spaces at any time.

"The app makes parking spaces visible which before would have remained unknown to drivers who were unfamiliar with the area", explains Stephan Ruppert, chief product manager Transport Route Planning at PTV.

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