Test Meters installed in Historic Downtown

Test Meters installed in Historic Downtown

Loveland, Ohio – City Manager Dave Kennedy is awaiting approval from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) before installing 39 test parking meters in Historic Downtown. The property where 26 of the meters are to be located is street parking along Railroad...
Could Wichita be a better city for parking?

Could Wichita be a better city for parking?

If Wichita charged more, and more intelligently, for parking, the city could be a better place, according to a national expert who will be speaking here Tuesday. “We force the private development market to build housing units for our cars, but not for our people,”...
Donald Shoup has 3 new recommendations

Donald Shoup has 3 new recommendations

Dive Brief: Donald Shoup, a research professor of urban planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, has three new recommendations for how cities plan parking in the follow-up to his landmark 2005 book, “The Cost of Free Parking.” In his new book,...
Brookline Meters Won’t Accept Credit Cards

Brookline Meters Won’t Accept Credit Cards

BROOKLINE, MA — If you use your credit card to park at the multi space parking meters like the one behind Coolidge Corner or the Town Hall lot, that’s about to stop working. For two weeks between April 1 and April 17 the town is putting a pause on the ability to...
Big Data Can Help Solve Problems but…

Big Data Can Help Solve Problems but…

Evaluating how well a parking meter is operating in San Diego may be a question for a streetlight. Overlaying data from a multitude of connected, intelligent components was the focus of one of the many panel discussions at the third annual Smart Cities Connect...