Even though University of Mississippi students didn’t arrive in Oxford until the second week of August, parking meters took in a record amount of revenue for the month. According to Parking Director Matt Davis, $78,793 was collected from the downtown parking meters...
Smart parking in Oxford, Miss., has been and remains a work in progress. City parking officials got off to a false start in 2012 with a license plate recognition effort that failed to deliver. “It was a good idea but the technology just wasn’t there yet,” said Parking...
Every year, more than 3,000 professionals in the parking and transportation industry attend the International Parking Institute (IPI) Conference and Expo. Attendees hear from experts on the latest in parking-specific technology and network with industry leaders from...
There are few experiences more fiction-filled and anger-inducing than trying to find a parking space in a major metropolitan area. The circling the block — or blocks — over and over again while searching for any available space is bad enough; finally finding a metered...
Parking meters with vehicle detection sensors increase revenue for cities by enabling parking meters to immediately reset once a vehicle has left. Sounds like a good idea. So why would city parking managers ever choose not to install them? Until recently, the purchase...