L.A. expands parking coverage

L.A. expands parking coverage

  The city is installing more parking sensors to expand LA Express Park, an app-powered, sensor-fueled smart-parking program expected to eventually cover the entire city. Craig Ishii, of the city’s Japanese American Citizen’s League, explains the...
Are in-car payments innovative?

Are in-car payments innovative?

  This is what in-car payments looks like for the driver. The payments industry loves to throw around the word innovation. We hear it so much that some of us have a hard time determining whether a product is a breakthrough that will alter this particular corner...
Montclair getting 545 solar-powered parking meters

Montclair getting 545 solar-powered parking meters

  Montclair is updating all of its public parking meters throughout town. The Township Council approved a resolution on Dec. 20 for the purchase of 545 single-space parking meters through IPS Group Inc., which was awarded a contract through a cooperative...

Boston turns to LA and Seattle to improve parking

  Seven years ago, Los Angeles transportation officials launched a major initiative to manage parking by increasing meter rates during higher demand. Critics in the car-loving city of 4 million grumbled, but the program worked out well — doubling parking meter...
Columbia Announces Plan to Upgrade Parking Meters

Columbia Announces Plan to Upgrade Parking Meters

  Parking in downtown Columbia will look a little different come mid-January. The city’s public works department announced Tuesday it will upgrade nearly all of the city’s downtown parking meters. The project, which comes with a roughly $475,000 price tag, will...