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Will AI Agents Revolutionize Parking?

January 22, 2025

By Katherine Beaty Many of you may remember the 2004 movie “I, Robot” starring Will Smith and set in Chicago in the year 2035. In this vision of the future, highly intelligent robots fill public service positions and operate under three laws designed to keep humans safe. The movie was inspired by the science fiction […]

UC Davis Health, Austin Parking Facilities Win PCI Design Awards

January 15, 2025

A UC Davis Health parking facility in Sacramento, California, and a privately owned parking structure in Austin, Texas, are the latest parking buildings to receive design awards from the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI). Announced on January 14, the 2025 PCI Design Awards included two honoring parking garages: The UC Davis Health Parking Structure IV was named […]

Minneapolis, Seattle Receive Stage 2 SMART Grant for Curb Management

January 7, 2025

In mid-December, the cities of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Seattle, Washington, were jointly awarded a $14.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to further their ongoing efforts to improve curb-management practices. The funding will enable Minneapolis and Seattle to pursue a 3-year project titled “Smart Curbs for Better Access: A Digital, Data Driven […]

Prefabricated Precision

January 2, 2025

The parking structure for the new Kilroy Oyster Point life science campus in San Francisco merges modular construction with seismic safety and style. By Aaron Alhady In the urban landscape of South San Francisco, the birthplace of biotechnology and the second-largest life science market in the country, a new landmark is taking shape — Kilroy […]

Authentic Concern … January 2025

January 2, 2025

Guiding Teams Through the Emotional Journey of Change By Brian Wolff Parker Technology, like parking, is experiencing many changes. As the organization’s leader, I’m no small source of those changes, because the business demands we do things differently than before. I was having trouble identifying a solution to a particular change I made when a […]

Bridging the Technological Gap: The U.S. Parking Industry vs. Europe

December 27, 2024

Editor’s note: This story is a condensed version of a feature article by Steve Gorski that will appear in the February print edition of Parking Today. The U.S. parking industry lags behind Europe in adopting advanced technologies like license plate recognition (LPR), parking guidance, and mobile payments, resulting in inefficiencies, environmental challenges, and poor user experiences. […]

A Parking Procurement Primer

December 27, 2024

Editor’s note: This story is a condensed version of a feature article by Scott Petri that will appear in the February print edition of Parking Today. Selecting the right approach to parking technology procurement begins with a well-crafted request for proposal (RFP). A thoughtful RFP ensures technology aligns with organizational goals, meets quality standards, and integrates […]

Compensation Counts in Elevating Parking Operations: Why Pay Policies Matter

December 27, 2024

Editor’s note: This story is a condensed version of a feature article by Andrew Sachs that will appear in the February print edition of Parking Today. The parking industry is navigating a transformative era, grappling with shifting mobility patterns, rapid technological adoption, and large-scale corporate consolidations. Yet amid these changes, one critical factor often goes […]

ParkMobile To Settle 2021 Data Breach Lawsuit

December 20, 2024

Smart parking provider ParkMobile will learn in mid-March 2025 if the federal judge adjudicating the class action lawsuit filed against the company in the wake of its 2021 data breach will finalize a proposed $32.8 million settlement of the case. Entitled Baker, et al. v. ParkMobile, LLC, the case involves 7 named plaintiffs and a […]

Friendly Fraud: A Growing Challenge for the Parking Industry

December 13, 2024

Chargebacks are an inevitable part of any business that accepts payments. For those unfamiliar, a chargeback is essentially a demand by a credit card provider for a retailer to reimburse the loss on a fraudulent or disputed transaction. In simpler terms, a customer files a dispute with their card provider, and the payment is reversed. […]

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