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Maximizing Parking Revenue with Real-Time Booking and Pricing Insights 

By Sarah Marks  Data has become more than just a record of transactions: It’s a vital resource for making informed decisions and staying ahead of shifting consumer trends. The ability to harness real-time insights from customer booking behavior can significantly enhance parking operations, drive revenue, and improve the customer experience. As airports, parking operators, and […]

Cybersecurity Insurance: What Parking Operators Need to Know

By Katherine Beaty  The parking industry is increasingly digital, from license plate recognition systems to mobile payment apps. Although these innovations improve efficiency and enhance the customer experience, they also introduce vulnerabilities. Cybersecurity incidents, like data breaches exposing customer payment information or ransomware attacks crippling operations, have become genuine threats. For many parking operators, cybersecurity […]

Bend’s Blueprint

By adopting real-time analytics and stakeholder-driven strategies, Bend, Oregon, has become a model for parking innovation. By Tobias Marx and Sonny Samra The city of Bend, Oregon, has a long history of parking innovation, perhaps best exemplified by its Downtown Strategic Parking Management Plan. Finalized in 2017, the plan has guided the city in its […]

From Congestion to Clarity in Campus Parking

Flexible permits and strategic planning ease parking woes at UC Davis. By Perry H. Eggleston and Ramon G. Zavala At the University of California (UC) Davis, we are best known for our cultural commitment to the bicycle, which began when the university’s second chancellor instructed his planners to design a “bicycle-riding, tree-lined campus.” Today, our […]

Smart Cities Are in Reach 

By Steve Gorski  Since the early 20th century, urban planners and others have advocated the concept of “smart cities,” referring to several key objectives aimed at improving the quality of life for citizens: reduced congestion and enhanced mobility, better energy management, more resilient and adaptive infrastructure, more efficient public services, and greater citizen engagement.  However, […]

Signal Success with Cellular Connectivity

Cellular connectivity enhances safety and efficiency in parking garages. By Stephen M. Kowal The U.S. has more than 2 billion parking spots for around 250 million cars. Although that may seem like enough to go around, in dense urban areas and other locations where providing ample parking is difficult, spots can be hard to come […]

Turning Data Into Parking Policy

Seattle and other cities use predictive data to allocate curb space for maximum effect. By Cole Jaillet Cities across North America are actively working to adapt to new curbside activities while ensuring safe and equitable access for their citizens. Significant progress has been made, but it has come with challenges. One of the more subtle […]

Industry News … February 2025

TKH Security is collaborating with ASM Lithography, commonly referred to as ASML, to install a comprehensive parking management solution at the company’s facility in San Diego, California. Through this project, TKH Security’s Park Assist Solution, an automated parking guidance system, will provide parking guidance for a 5-floor parking structure housing 502 spaces. The project is […]

Will AI Agents Revolutionize Parking?

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 […]

Minneapolis, Seattle Receive Stage 2 SMART Grant for Curb Management

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 […]
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