mowiz TRUCK Astigarraga is the proud winner of the very first Green Truck Parking Management Award, demonstrating their commitment to sustainability in the safe and secure parking area through a comprehensive approach.
About mowiz TRUCK Astigarraga:
mowiz TRUCK is a secure truck parking area located in the town of Astigarraga, in the PK17 of the AP-8/AP-1 highway northbound. Its location is privileged, as it is in one of the areas with the highest traffic of carriers in Spain, in the TEN-T Atlantic corridor. It is certified at the GOLD level of the EU-Parking Standard. mowiz TRUCK Astigarraga has 341 available spaces, of which 30 are reserved for dangerous goods (14 flammable and 16 non-flammable). Refrigerated trucks have 16 specific spaces with plugs to connect to electrical power plus another 20 spaces without electrical connection in the same area. mowiz TRUCK Astigarraga has the ambition to establish themselves as the benchmark for sustainable truck parking. Their philosophy is rooted in continuous improvement, a strong commitment to sustainability, and excellence in delivering services that meet the highest quality standards. mowiz TRUCK Astigarraga has managed to create a space that not only benefits carriers, but also promotes social, economic and environmental prosperity.
Above and Beyond: Providing Excellent Services for Drivers
The safe and secure truck parking area in Astigarraga not only provides the services outlined through the EU-Parking Standard, but goes above and beyond to ensure their customers receive the services they need to rest and recover. Whether that’s excellent food options in their restaurant supplemented by local suppliers, reliable WiFi throughout the whole parking area, areas and equipment for leisure and fitness, fuel stations, alternative energy sources, nearby hotel accommodation, watering points, truck maintenance, supermarket, medical assistance, laundry facilities, green areas, multilingual services, 24/7 surveillance, license plate recognition, CMR documentation control and much more.
A Commitment to Sustainability
The mowiz TRUCK Astigarraga parking facilities are strategically located between the border of Spain and France (Irun), a wooded area surrounded by greenery.
Reducing paper waste through digitization
mowiz TRUCK aims to be a “ticketless” company and has digitized many processes with the aim of making their contribution to the environment. Paper consumption is at the minimum for the company. For this reason, all accesses to any parking in the moswiz TRUCK network is done through license plate recognition and ticketless access. They have also incentivized the use of digital ticket and invoices, through the mowiz TRUCK app and platform. Through the App, once a customer has booked a space in the parking area,the keyless opening option is automatically activated. That is, from a smartphone customers can open both the external pedestrian turnstile entrance or any of the access doors to the driver’s restricted areas inside the parking. They can also make use of this system if they have downloaded the App and registered, and enter the parking on rotation with License Plate Recognition option activated.
Facilitating traffic flow and reducing noise and pollution
Traffic lights and procedures have been installed inside the parking areas with two main objectives: first, to facilitate the flow of trucks entering and leaving, reducing the noise and pollution, and second, to facilitate (in rush hours) that trucks can easily circulate and not block the entrance. There is a specific area for coupling and uncoupling of duo-trailers, being able to transform a duotrailer into
two trucks that are allowed to drive in France, and on the opposite way be able to couple a duotrailer
from 2 trucks that come from France. Specific spaces have been allocated for special length vehicles: car carriers, mega trailers and duo-trailers. Specific spaces have been allocated also for flammable ADR, non-flammable ADR, refrigerated trucks plugged to electrical plugging-in or refrigerated trucks that will keep the fuel generator on, … They also count with specific spaces for trailers use on relays routes that are guarded until the cross-dock of the trucks and trailers can be done or over the inefficacies already exist on this logistic alternative, for which mowiz TRUCK can even provide further services, like trailer maintenance inspection services.
Waste management
mowiz TRUCK not only has defined in-site policies and procedures for their own waste management, but also for visitors’ waste management. On site, the truck parking area has implemented separative wastewater management with different water filtering systems for treating water before going into the river or EDAR. They also have special contingency systems to block any leak (dangerous or not) to reach the river.
- Hydrocyclone: There is a separate collection network for rainwater and runoff, equipped with a hydrocyclone treatment system prior to discharge into the collector to the natural mean.
- Even for the grey waters of the parking, which are connected to the municipal wastewater collector network’s which end in an EDAR, several filtering systems are in place for the previous separation of grease from water from restauration facilities or for the wastewater from the truck wash facility.
Customers are provided with containers distributed all over the facility to facilitate the separate management of waste and its recycling. In the facility itself, there are separating glass, plastics and paper collection waste containers distributed on different strategic points, while specific oils, batteries and contaminated products’ containers are provided at the internal private facilities for staff.
They have also implemented on-site a dedicated paper and cardboard recycling system so as to recycle what they cannot reuse or reduce from daily operations.
Mitigating energy consumption and emissions
The entire parking surface area has been equipped with LED lights throughout the whole facility. The same for all interior light in the buildings. Motion reinforcement lights in common pedestrian areas are implemented and turn on as passers walk-by. Furthermore, parking lot lighting has been designed to reduce recreational pollution in the surrounding area by lights directed towards the ground for reducing light contamination.
Alternative energy
mowiz TRUCK facilities are certified as A energy rating thanks to:
- 12 kW solar panels generation capacity on the roof.
- Green roof design.
- Full LED lighting.
- Aero-thermic heating/cooling systems.
- The use of water tanks as energy storage batteries.
Furthermore, they have implemented solutions for avoiding grid overload based on three-phase capacitor banks, together with UPSs and DHW tanks. For the energynot generated on-site, there is a long-term green supply contract with Iberdrola, which guaranties us the purchase of renewable energy supply.
Reduction of acoustic contamination
The parking is located on the highway and they have implemented both solutions on design and on operations to reduce the acoustic contamination to/from the vicinity areas. Acoustic barriers were built to reduce noise pollution. They seek to mitigate the noise coming from the parking lot, so as not to affect the vicinity areas and at the same time to eliminate the noise coming from the road so that truck drivers can rest better. Furthermore, parking rules related with driving directions and limited speed have been implemented and are signaled both horizontal and vertical signaling all over the parking facilities.
Local suppliers
mowiz TRUCK Astigarra is also conscious of the impact they have on the local community. To make sure that impact is positive, the truck parking area has focused on job creation and consumption from local suppliers:
• The operation of the parking lot has created direct and indirect local jobs, from security personnel, to administration staff, passing by maintenance services with local suppliers.
• Focusing on local suppliers has helped the parking area reduce the transportation carbon footprint of parking supplies, with examples like:
– Igartza Food Servic: comprehensive supplier of kitchen products for the hospitality industry
– Honyaldi: supplier of food and sweets products
– Cárnicas Abere: specialist supplier of native cow chops and sirloin
Learn more about mowiz TRUCK Astigarraga by visiting their website: https://www.mowiztruck.com/en/guipuzcoa/mowiz-truck-astigarraga/9 .
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