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Hi-Tech Solutions (HTS), a developer and provider of optical character recognition (OCR) computer vision systems, has sold 70 license plate recognition software packages to Engebras, a B...
Parcxmart Technologies, an electronic payments company, and the city of Fort Lauderdale, FL, have signed a five-year contract to issue the Fort Lauderdale City Card powered by Parcxmart beginn...
Frank Stark has joined Arial AMAG Technology as its South Central Regional Sales Manager. He interfaces with Symmetry Authorized Resellers and end-users to provide sales training, techn...
Federal Signal Corporation’s Safety and Security Systems Group, a leader in advancing security and well-being, today announced that David Dealy and Jack Hartman have joined its Advisory ...
TagMaster, the Stockholm-based leading producer of advanced RFID solutions for rail applications, has received a substantial order to supply equipment for use on a major Metro system in Europe....
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At PIE (Parking Industry Exhibition), Barbara Chance of Chance Management Advisors gave a great presentation. However, she said one thing that got me thinking: "Money is not the real objective." To most people on the public side of the parking industry, this is a Mother Earth statement; indeed, in the UK, it is enshrined in law.
I went for a walk with my master the other day. Just around the neighborhood. We watched a parking enforcement officer writing a ticket for a car parked in front of a fire hydrant.
It reminded me of the great scene in "Backdraft" where a fellow parked his Mercedes in front of the fire hydrant, so the firefighters simply broke out his windows and pulled the hoses through the car. Didn't slow them down a bit.
I'm sitting at gate 62 in Terminal 2 at Tokyo's Narita International Airport. I was in the UK and needed to be in Melbourne so I decided to continue on around the globe. One of the stopovers was here in Tokyo. Though thoroughly modern, the culture is quite different than that we find in the US, or other English Speaking Countries. The advertisements seem to be posters, filled with Kongi -- the Japanese writtten language, of course. The walls are covered with signs which are full side to side, t..
This article about downtown parking charges forcing people to park in local neighborhoods proves everything I have been saying about on street parking charges. They do alter people's parking behavior. Now, by enforcing the rules in neighborhoods around the center city, my guess is that the cheap of street garages will be filled and the problems solved. They could, of course, go even further and charge for parking in the neighborhoods, but who has the political will to do that, particularly in t..
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