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Shades of Green - New Parking Guidance Systems Q3 2008
Wading Through Lighting Confusion - Sean Zimmer Q1, 2008
GPS Tracking Advances in Parking Q1, 2008
PARKPLUS SYSTEM™ Changes the face of urban parking. Q4, 2007
What Do You Know About Paypal? (482 KB) by, Thomas Janacek, New Parking Inc. Have you ever needed to send somebody money quickly? Western Union, or FedEx? Maybe a cheque or bank deposit?
Bank of Canada to Upgrade $5 Note (593 KB) Make Sure Your Note-Handling Equipment is Ready in Time for the Improved Note.
Giant Robot Imprisons Parked Cars (324 KB) By Quinn Norton.Original source: Wired News. The robot that parks cars at the Garden Street Garage in Hoboken, New Jersey, trapped hundreds of its wards last week for several days.
Parking Innovation (588 KB) by Sarah Richards. Parking innovation brings increased revenue to municipalities and userfriendly solutions to "on street" parking meters.
Spotlight on New Technology – Application Service Providers (ASP) Blossoming (2,273 KB) by Blake Laufer, T2 Systems. Demand for ASP is growing at a breakneck pace and International Data Corp. predicts that the ASP sector will grow to $200 million next year in Canada….
The PDA: Your Next Handheld Ticket Writer? (60 KB) by Blake Laufer, T2 Systems (Canada) Inc. Arguments for the use of PDAs as portable citation issuers.
Wireless: It’s All The Rage (354 KB) by John Shoesmith, Special to Technology in Government. Toronto is the first to use wireless parking meters. How does it work and where will it go to from here?
Adapting Technology to the Needs of the Parking Industry (318 KB) by Tony Sedgwick, National Car Parks Limited. How technology can improve congestion, security, enforcement, payments, and more.
Parking Technology in the New Millennium (362 KB) by Dr. Andreas Scholz, AXXTEQ GmbH. Using the Internet to better manage parking operations.
Parking with No Wires Attached (64 KB) by Blake Laufer, T2 Systems (Canada) Inc. Using cellular and Bluetooth communications to streamline wireless parking services.
UBC Using Today’s Technology (232 KB) by Victor Griffiths, Operations Manager, UBC. How UBC upgraded their parking facilities to wireless operations and how that improved the service for their users and produced a better audit trail.
Wireless Parking: Are We There Yet? (107 KB) by Len Nanjad. From parking to traffic management: Going wireless transforms your business.
Wireless Technologies and Intelligent Transportation Systems (50 KB) by Marc Dee, Twisted Air. Wireless communications technologies are at the heart of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), with in-vehicle navigational systems, parking meters, and control gates all dependent on this technology.
Innovations and New Concepts: Mobile License Plate Recognition (57 KB) by Tom Keeley, Auto Vu Technologies. Fixed LPR evolves to Mobile LPR; how will it work in the parking industry?
Automated Parking Takes its Place in North America (142 KB) by Peggy Guignon, ROBOTIC PARKING, INC. Customers in New Jersey are pleased with their automated parking facility. How can you tell if it will suit your building project?
Innovations and New Concepts (34 KB) TCS International introduces its new Generation Parkline3000 from Dambach, and Sirit Technologies announces the launch of its Identity ZiP product.
Innovations and New Concepts: A Case Study – Vancouver automates city parking bylaw enforcement (212 KB) by Steve Campbell, Epic Data Inc. How wireless ticketing is more efficient, accurate, time saving, and how it results in less paper work and more citations being paid.
Protecting Your Assets: Small city moving to real-time wireless parking enforcement (194 KB) by Steve Campbell (Independent Technical Writer) and Douglas Stone (Douglas Management Consulting Inc.). How the City of White Rock, BC, uses mobile parking enforcement to protect its valuable tourist market and generate profits of $2 million a year on its public parking.
A New Spin on Creation (184 KB) by Spafax Canada Inc and Don Tapscott. The high tech world could learn a few things from Mother Nature.
Applied Technology and the Future of Parking (173 KB) by Blake Laufer, T2 Systems (Canada) Inc. Blake outlines some of the technologies that have an impact on parking today.
A New Vision in Parking Technology (542 KB) by Peter Carr, York University. How can technology contribute to "perfect parking"?
LCC Parking Meters meet the Cell Phone Age (93 KB) by Thomas Janacek, New Parking Inc. Cell phone technology has finally reached parking meters. Find out how it works at Lethbridge Community College, Alberta.
UCSB is Using 21st Century Technologies to Boost Parking Service and Revenues (132 KB) by Steve Campbell, Independent Technical Writer. The University of California, Santa Barbara moves to the cutting edge of parking technology. Find out how.
Parking Meters (514 KB) by Jim Taylor, JJ MacKay Canada. Even in this technological age, there is still a demand for the single-space parking meter.
CPA Image Initiatives: Parking Professional Primer (PPP) (1539 KB) by Carole Dunlevie, Adjunct Parking Management Systems. An explanation of the CPA’s new training program.
Smart Cards (295 KB) by Kim McNairn, The StarPhoenix. Saskatoon’s CityCard can now be used to pay for metered parking, in addition to other city services.
Monitoring of a Post-Tensioned Structure: A Case History (3352 KB) by Jim Kenyon, P.Eng. Reporting on the successful use of the Pure Technologies monitoring system called "SoundPrint®"
Learning to Soar Above the Rest (431 KB) by John Smithman, Author. A parable explaining what it takes to be a successful salesperson.
Smart Cards 101 (44 KB) by Wayne G. Mercer. How Smart Cards work and why they are beneficial to the parking industry.
Notice to Customer: "Go Print You Own Gate Card" (263 KB) by Blake Laufer, T2 Systems (Canada) Inc. How the Internet can be used to advantage for gate card renewals.
Toronto Parking Authority test drives payment system (30 KB) by Fawzia Sheikh. The TPA is launching a program that will enable customers to pay for their spaces with a transferable corporate parking card.
Saskatoon - the first Canadian city to offer pay by cell for parking meters (329 KB) by Thomas Janacek, New Parking Inc. Saskatoon was first, but ultimately all cities will use pay by cell for parking meters!
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