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Shower facilities, a fitness course, lounge areas with the opportunity to heat up food, and 600 square meters of green space: the new “Truck-Stop Hausruck” in Weibern is better equipped than many campsites. The facility, which will offer 112 parking spaces exclusively for trucks, went into operation yesterday. “We want to offer our customers service – good rest areas are necessary for safe road traffic,” said Asfinag board director Josef Fiala at the official opening on Monday.
The facility is controversial: A Weibern citizens’ initiative criticized the sealing of the area and the proximity to the town center, which is already heavily polluted due to the motorway.
In order to protect the immediate neighbors, Asfinag has built noise barriers, one of which also shields the users of the parking lot from the noise of the motorway. A sophisticated system is intended to enable efficient use of space: With “column parking”, the truck drivers indicate the approximate parking duration on a display as they enter.
Model for new projects
They are then assigned to parking spaces where four trucks are parked directly behind each other, and they are also parked close together on the sides. The vehicles in the middle two spaces are, so to speak, “parked up”. The areas are allocated according to the specified departure times, so that the drivers can leave one after the other in the morning without being disturbed. “Thanks to convoy parking, around 50 percent more trucks can park here than in the same area with a normal parking system,” said Fiala. In the future, the system will be used in other Asfinag parking spaces.
In general, the Weibern rest area, which cost 19 million euros, serves as a model for new projects. Asfinag is planning 1,000 additional parking spaces throughout Austria in the medium term; the Weibern location was chosen because of the high demand along the A8.
In addition to amenities for drivers, the parking lot also offers ten charging stations for electric trucks. “The proportion of these vehicles is still small, but they will become increasingly important in the future,” said Asfinag board director Hartwig Hufnagl. The system itself uses PV modules to generate enough electricity to be completely self-sufficient throughout the year – however, the charging stations are excluded from this calculation.
There is also praise from Infrastructure State Councilor Günther Steinkellner (FP): “This new, modern infrastructure creates an important prerequisite for recovery phases and thus for strengthening traffic safety.”
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