USDOT awards $15 million to construct I-4 West Central Florida Truck Parking Facility
On Thursday, the U.S. Division of Transportation (USDOT) introduced that $1.5 billion in grants have been awarded to 26 infrastructure and transportation tasks nationwide, together with a brand new truck parking facility in Florida.
As a part of the $1.5 billion Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) aggressive grant program, USDOT has awarded $15 million to assemble the I-4 West Central Florida Truck Parking Facility.
The brand new truck parking facility is meant to handle a scarcity of business truck parking on the hall between Tampa and Orlando, which carries a mean of 18,000 vans every day, in keeping with USDOT.
The challenge will encompass a brand new parking facility with roughly 120 truck parking areas, electrical charging stations, and pedestrian infrastructure to permit truck drivers to entry close by industrial facilities. Authorities say that the power may also embody at the very least six electrical hookups to supply stand-by energy for refrigerated vans and auxiliary energy for in-cab comforts.
The power can be related to the Florida Division of Transportation’s Truck Parking Availability System to assist drivers determine obtainable parking areas.
USDOT says that the parking facility will enhance security by lowering the variety of vans parking in vacant tons or on freeway shoulders.
“By offering dependable parking capability, the challenge reduces time drivers spend trying to find industrial automobile parking, making provide chain motion extra environment friendly. Moreover, the electrical hookups and the lowered time trying to find parking will lower industrial automobile emissions,” USDOT writes.
The INFRA grant program helps freeway, multimodal freight and rail tasks that may make the nation’s transportation methods safer and extra resilient, get rid of provide chain bottlenecks, and enhance crucial freight actions.
