Lorry Parking Need and Freight Facility Evidence Platform

- Developers can spend heavily promoting a site without a quantified corridor-level shortage case. - Authorities may have little local evidence beyond informal roadside parking complaints and national survey data. - Security, welfare quality and overnight capacity are different problems but are often collapsed into a single count of spaces. - Freight demand and parking pressure shift with logistics patterns, making old consultant studies lose value.

Primary buyers are lorry-park/service-area developers, logistics property teams and their planning consultants. Highway authorities and freight partnerships are evidence users; operators may also use the system to support upgrade funding and investment cases.

The national evidence baseline strengthens the product because it provides an authoritative starting point. The commercial layer is translating national/corridor evidence into site-specific need, alternatives and welfare/security gaps.

When the 2026 survey is published, build corridor-level benchmarks and test them on 10 existing proposed or expanded lorry parks. Ask planning consultants whether the evidence materially reduces bespoke survey work and whether authorities accept the methodology.

A live facility inventory enriched with capacity, overnight utilisation, security incidents, welfare quality and observed informal parking could become proprietary. Repeated operator reporting would be stronger than one-off public data.

Give facility developers a faster, more objective need case and help authorities distinguish genuine network gaps from speculative proposals.

Proxy based — medium confidence.

£3,000–£15,000 per site study; £15,000–£40,000/year national/corridor licence. £3,000-£12,000 per site evidence pack or £12,000-£35,000 annual corridor/portfolio access is plausible. The product should sit below a full transport consultancy commission.

Evidence basis: Route Optimisation Tool (£31,440 excluding VAT for one year (1 Apr 2026–31 Mar 2027)) is the closest verified adjacent anchor used here. Its buyer, duration and scope are not assumed to be identical; implementation is separated where the opportunity requires integration, assurance or managed delivery.

Ask a named transport authority, operator, employer or place-management body to fund a paid test of Lorry Parking Need and Freight Facility Evidence Platform lasting 8–12 weeks, using an opening price of £12,000–£35,000 and covering two live or replayed disruption/operating windows and at least 20 representative journeys, routes or cases. Paid scope: A freight-facility demand mapper producing catchment, shortage, security/welfare and alternative-site evidence for planning and investment decisions. Charge by operator, authority, route portfolio or completed transaction and compare the fee with current control-room, passenger-information, survey and manual route-planning effort. Measure decision time, routing accuracy, user take-up, avoidable delay, unresolved exceptions and repeat use. Continue only if decision or recovery time improves by at least 20%, safety/accuracy thresholds are met and the buyer commits to a further operating period. Stop or reprice if the service creates unsafe advice, fails to improve decisions or cannot attract a paying operator/authority.

Raise above 80 if the 2026 survey confirms material shortages and multiple developers buy repeat site screens. Reduce below 58 if national survey data plus a conventional consultant study already covers the decision efficiently.