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Parking Management for Smart Growth

Parking Management for Smart Growth

Download the PDF Parking is the sacred cow of land uses. It claims privileged status in zoning codes and there is simply too much of it in cities. Previous ACCESS articles reveal problems with minimum parking requirements; show how excess parking harms livability,...

Market-Priced Parking in Theory and Practice

Market-Priced Parking in Theory and Practice

Download the PDF One of the first lessons of economics is that price controls lead to shortages, and shortages lead to queues. Street parking vividly illustrates this principle. Many cities keep valuable street spaces free or underpriced, and as a result they fill up...

Cruising for Parking: Lessons from San Francisco

Cruising for Parking: Lessons from San Francisco

Parking management has been a vexing problem for cities since the invention of the automobile. Among the concerns are traffic congestion, air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions caused by drivers searching for available parking—an activity colloquially known as...

Do Cities Have Too Much Parking?

Do Cities Have Too Much Parking?

Minimum parking requirements create more parking than is needed. This in turn encourages more driving at a time when cities seek to reduce congestion and increase transit use, biking, and walking. After nearly a century of development under these requirements, parking...

Pay It Forward

Pay It Forward

City planners have to constantly think about flow. How will cars get through this intersection? When a faucet is opened, will water comes out? Carlton Lund is a citizen city planner. When he thinks about flow, it is social construct and he wants to stop conventional...

Parking Meters on Oxford Square Generate Big Money

Parking Meters on Oxford Square Generate Big Money

  Since first being installed in 2014, the parking meters and tickets have turned a profit of over $800,000 to fund parking projects. (Photo by HottyToddy.com) Parking on the Square was changed for locals and visitors dramatically just two short years ago with...

Tucson participates parking meter program for homeless

Tucson participates parking meter program for homeless

  Parking meters similar to these will be used, to help the homeless (Source: Tucson News Now) TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) - Tucson city leaders will approve a program to install 20 parking meters that will allow people to donate to help the homeless. "It's in...

IPS Group Top 5 Vendor in Europe’s Smart Parking

IPS Group Top 5 Vendor in Europe’s Smart Parking

Technavio has announced the top five leading vendors in their recent smart parking market in Western Europe report until 2020. This research report also lists 32 other prominent vendors that are expected to impact the market during the forecast period. Increased...

Revenue up, tickets down after city introduces parking app

Revenue up, tickets down after city introduces parking app

For decades, it was a much-maligned ritual of city living: digging in purses, pants, or under car seats for stray quarters to feed the insatiable parking meter. And then, all too often, returning to find a bright orange ticket saluting from under [...] Original web...

Creative Finance Enables Parking Progress in LA

Creative Finance Enables Parking Progress in LA

Los Angeles entered the second decade of the 21st century facing major challenges to its parking operations. With a population of 3.8 million, and its car-oriented culture still predominant, the city’s parking meters were technically outdated – with most only accepting coins and many regularly out of service – resulting in a substantial loss of revenue. This coincided with a number of Californian cities looking to parking income to boost their budgets.

Knoxville parking meters to be updated

Knoxville parking meters to be updated

Knoxville parking meters to be updatedMore than 1,000 outdated parking meters in the Knoxville will be replaced by solar-powered units across downtown, the Old City and Fort Sanders after City Council members approved a contract Tuesday night…

PAY-TO-PARK: Meters Could Replace Kiosks

PAY-TO-PARK: Meters Could Replace Kiosks

Click here to view original web page at medford.wickedlocal.com Those fed up with Medford’s year-old parking kiosks might soon have reason to celebrate. Mayor Stephanie M. Burke said the city is considering replacing at least some of the digital kiosks with...

Orlando is Embracing Innovative Transportation

Orlando is Embracing Innovative Transportation

Click here to view original web page at www.bizjournals.com Orlando would not have applied to participate in the U.S. Department of Transportation's Smart City Challenge if it didn't think it had a good shot at winning. And looking at the ways in which the city has...

Charge cards to replace coins at Waldwick meters

Charge cards to replace coins at Waldwick meters

Waldwick — The borough will replace the 40 coin-operated parking meters at the train station parking lot with card-operated meters to facilitate commuters’ daily park and ride commute. According to Borough Administrator Andrew Tatarenko, the project to overhaul the...

What Pay-By-Plate Means For Your Customers

INTERVIEW: DAVE KING, IPS GROUP By Nicole Ybarra Today, the world is “connected” as never before, the result of a technological revolution that has touched nearly every aspect of our lives. Technology has transformed the way we conduct business, socialize and even...

Meters to Raise $10,000 for SD’s Homeless

Meters to Raise $10,000 for SD’s Homeless

The red meters scattered throughout downtown San Diego that collect donations for the homeless have raised nearly $10,000 since the first of nearly two dozen stations was installed four years ago. While the total is far from enough money to help the city end its fight...

More Payment Options in Montgomery County

More Payment Options in Montgomery County

SILVER SPRING, Md. — Montgomery County is giving drivers more parking payment options by expanding its use of “smart” meters. Starting next week, more than 1,100 traditional parking meters in Silver Spring will be replaced with smart meter technology, which...

Sacramento Recognized Parking Awards – 2014

SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwired - June 19, 2014) - The City of Sacramento was recently recognized by the International Parking Institute (IPI) for its successful public education campaign in conjunction with the roll out of new smart parking meters. The 2014 Parking...

The Seattle Times ‘Smart’ parking meters

The Seattle Times ‘Smart’ parking meters

Seattle’s lucrative parking pay stations are being replaced with smarter dispensers that can spit out different-priced window stickers depending on time of day. The first new “###smart parking” stations were being installed Monday on Occidental Avenue South, near...

Parking-Meter Installation in Boone Update

Editor’s Note: Below is a letter that the Downtown Boone Development Association sent to members on Friday. At a Boone Town Council meeting on Thursday, Town Manager John Ward said that installation of the smart meters would begin on Monday....

New Parking System in Downtown Boone

New Parking System in Downtown Boone

The Town of Boone and the Downtown Boone Development Association is ramping up its educational campaign regarding the parking meters that will line downtown Boone this summer. A website devoted to parking in downtown and other materials will...

San Diego Installing ‘Smart’ Parking Meters

San Diego Installing ‘Smart’ Parking Meters

The city of San Diego is installing around 200 “smart” parking meters beginning this week that will accept credit card payments and track usage of spaces. The devices, which cost a total of $3.8 million, are replacing traditional...

San Diego’s Where, When and WOW!

San Diego’s Where, When and WOW!

Promising to change the game by letting drivers leave their change at home, a slew of new parking meters will appear on San Diego’s sidewalks this month. In June, City Council approved a contract with Sorrento Valley-based ips group, Inc., a leading manufacturer of...

Smart Parking Meters at Work in Santa Monica

The new parking sensors went into effect on May 12. According to the city's parking webpage, "the sensors are part of the new credit card and phone-enabled parking meters installed over the past several months and represent the latest in parking meter technology." In...