Safer Parking award from the British Parking Association
December 28, 2008
Westfield London, the capitals newest shopping centre, has been awarded a Safer Parking award from the British Parking Association (BPA) within its first six weeks of opening. Europes biggest inner city shopping and leisure destination received Park Mark status at a recent ceremony for providing a safe parking facility with 4,500 spaces.
| Car park manager, Gary Lee was presented with the Park Mark Award from Sector Inspector Paul Banbro of Hammersmith & Fulham Metropolitan Police Borough. PC David Hinton was also at the presentation. The team is directly responsible for the Policing of the Westfield London Shopping Centre.
The Safer Parking Scheme (SPS), run by the BPA for the Association of Chief Police Officers, was developed to provide a benchmark standard for all parking areas across the UK, to create safer parking both for the public and their vehicles. The Park Mark Safer Parking Award is granted to parking areas that have achieved the requirements of a risk assessment conducted by the Police. These requirements mean the parking operator has put in place measures that help to deter criminal activity and anti-social behaviour, thereby doing everything they can to prevent crime and reduce the fear of crime in their parking area. |
| Gary Lee said: We are delighted to receive Park Mark status in the opening weeks of the new centre. We are committed to the highest level of customer service, and with Christmas due to be our busiest time, it was vital to provide all our shoppers with a safe and reliable parking facility while they enjoy the new centre.
The shopping centre in Shepherds Bush has a vehicle management system to indicate parking availability and also offers a valet parking service for the convenience of its customers. Kelvin Reynolds, head of SPS at the British Parking Association, said: With the number of Park Mark awards on the increase – we now have over 3,700 members – it proves that the scheme is an invaluable tool in helping to make parking environments safe and increasing public reassurance in these areas. When drivers leave their cars in Park Mark award facilities they will find them exactly as they left them on their return.
|
Related Posts:
The European Union has initiated a pilot project whose aim is to build secure parking areas
December 28, 2008
The number of attacks on LGVs, in which not only the load is stolen, but also the driver is threatened with a weapon or even injured is steadily increasing. Apart from the long term mental damage to the driver, every year this results in losses of around 8.5 billion Euros, with the trend increasing. The European Union has therefore initiated a pilot project whose aim is to build secure parking areas.
One such automated secure parking area is currently being developed in Germany at the Wörnitz Truck Stop on Exit 109 of the A7 Autobahn, north of the A6/A7 interchange. Wörnitz Truck Stop commissioned DESIGNA and Würzburger Stadtverkehrs GmbH to build a fully automated secure LGV parking area in compliance with the highest security standards.
From December 2008 there will be 25 fully automated secure parking spaces available for LGVs with at risk freight. A special feature of the new secure parking area, which is, of course, fully fenced in and under video surveillance, is automatic photographic logging of the
- vehicle licence plate
- driver
- vehicle from the top left hand side
- and the vehicle from the top right hand side.
This implementation of innovations developed by DESIGNA in the tried and tested PM ABACUS system enables the operation to be fully automated without the operator needing to employ a large number of staff, explained DESIGNAs sales manager, Marten Jentsch, summarising the advantages of the companys system.
Source:Nadine Lübbe http://www.designa.com
From: DESIGNA Verkehrsleittechnik GmbH
Tags: parking news, NY, europeRelated Posts:
Advanced Mobile Phone Parking Solution
December 13, 2008
Basingstoke & Deane Council is launching Parkmobile’s advanced mobile phone parking solution to provide the motorists with an alternative method of paying for their parking charges in their pay & display car parks.
Whilst the traditional ‘pay and display’ parking still applies, motorists who park in the council’s pay & display car parks in Basingstoke could also pay for their parking using their mobile phone from 1st September 2008.
Parkmobile’s cashless parking by mobile phone offers motorists the luxury of parking without searching for coins, or predict how long they are going to park for. It only takes a short call to start and stop parking transactions from the comfort of a car.
The motorists can use their mobile phone to register and use the system instantly on arrival at a parking space. The enforcement is carried out using a GPRS enabled mobile phone to check the validity of the parking. The parking attendant enters the vehicle registration number on the device and reads the status of the parking transaction on the display.
Surveys show that the majority of the people who have used this service were impressed by its convenience and user-friendliness in addition to the system’s financial benefits of not overpay for parking or receiving penalty charge notices because they could not get back to their car quickly enough to top-up a pay and display machine.
Source: http://www.parkmobile.com
Tags: china parking website, mechanical parking garages, SourceRelated Posts:
Return of VAT on recycled materials
December 13, 2008
CHINA will restore a value-added tax on domestic recycled materials, including scrap metals, effective from January 1, 2009, the Ministry of Finance said yesterday in a statement on its Website.
The restoration of the VAT, which is usually 17 percent in China, may raise scrap metal prices and make imported materials more competitive. Before the end of 2010, recyclers that meet certain criteria will have part of the VAT they pay refunded.
Tags: parking news, china parking website, urban parkingRelated Posts:
Qi says hard times for steel to continue
December 8, 2008
For the buyers importing steel from China or having domestic demand to Chinese suppliers must keep on suppliers. Here is the latest news from Chinese supliers:
CHINA’S steel industry has entered a hard time after seven years of rapid expansion, and a turnaround is unlikely until the second quarter of next year, according to Qi Xiangdong, deputy secretary with China Iron and Steel Association.
Slackening demand at home and overseas has hit the country’s 71 major steel makers, said Qi.
Their profit totaled 126.8 billion yuan (US$18.5 billion) during the January-October period, down 0.93 percent from a year earlier.
Forty-two large or medium-sized steel companies posted losses in October. The combined losses reached 7.8 billion yuan.
The proactive fiscal policy and moderately loose monetary policy as well as the central government’s efforts to boost domestic demand and fixed asset investments would all have a positive impact on the development of the steel manufacturing industry in 2009, Qi said.
Last month, China unveiled an estimated 4-trillion-yuan stimulus package as part of its bid to offset adverse global economic conditions by boosting domestic demand.
The money is to be spent over the next two years to finance programs including low-income housing, rural infrastructure, water, electricity, transportation, the environment, technological innovation and rebuilding from several disasters, most notably the May 12 earthquake.
Although the elimination of export duties on 67 types of steel from December 1 would help cut the cost of exports, Qi expected steel exports to slump next year due to dwindling global demand.
Tags: supplier, Export, steel industryRelated Posts:
