The Problem With Present Parking Control

EFFECTIVE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT IS COSTLY!

There can be little doubt that parking in most towns, cities, institutions, terminals and stadiums is a major isssue. For local authorities who are having to accomodate an ever increasing number of vehicles and reduced resources, the task of effective traffic management is daunting indeed. A solution that not only satisfies a variety of parking needs but remains cost effective and generates additional income, becomes imperative.

DEPENDANCE UPON ON/OFF STREET GENERATED FUNDS!

Many towns, cities and businesses rely heavily on revenue generated by way of on/off street parking and the mandate is to effectively administrate a parking system that optimizes use of available space while maximizing revenue generation through effective enforcement. The goal of these facilites is to minimize parking congestion, illegal parking, encourage rapid turnover, and generate additonal income.

FREE PARKING ISN’T FREE!

Free parking represents lost revenue to the parking provider, which contributes to higher local taxes or operating costs that can be mitigated in the case of private parking providers. Free parking encourages “Long Term Parking”, inconveniencing shoppers and citizens resulting in lost business for retailers operating in densely populated areas.

CURRENT PARKING METER SYSTEMS SUFFER FROM BREAKAGE AND THEFTS!

Many of the parking control systems currently in use cost substantial sums of money to implement and maintain. Just providing for mechanical or electronically metered infrastructure is too costly for many smaller towns and entities like universities; forcing them to forego the new profit centers paid parking would otherwise provide them. Even large municipalities are finding that the cost/benefit of meters is becoming questionable especially when the other attendant problems of meter use are considered. The mechanical and electronic equipment (meters) are particularly susceptible to a substantial amount of “leakage” through uncollected parking fees, whether to mechanical failure, theft, damage, tampering with on-street equipment, undetected overstay and other breaches of parking controls.

• West Palm Beach City Parking System, Florida, USA (0)
• Parking in Rome (0)
• Driving into China’s parking mess (0)
• Automated Parking System T5 Multi-Storey Car Park, Heathrow, London, United Kingdom (0)
• London’s priciest car park ‘charges £43 for six hours’ (0)
• Cesena Automatic Underground Parking System, Italy (0)
• ANPR – Number Plate Recognition Technology (0)
• Solving Beijing’s traffic problem (0)
• Parking problems set to be eased with multi-storey car park in Lisburn, United Kingdom (0)
• Beijing’s Olympic-sized traffic problem (0)