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Parking App Mitigates Bridge Construction Impact

With area commerce affected by ongoing bridge construction, the City of Covington, Kentucky, is trying to help ease the pain by partnering with a local parking app that connects travelers to local businesses.

The Silent Crisis on Main Street

The era of the “dumb curb” is over. The era of the intelligent, digitized, and managed curb has arrived. The only question remaining is whether parking authorities will step up to lead this transition or be overrun by it.

Metropolis Agrees to $8.75 Million Tennessee Settlement 

The parking operator and provider of artificial intelligence solutions Metropolis Technologies, Inc., recently agreed to an $8.75 million settlement with the State of Tennessee to resolve its investigation into the company.

Parking’s Streaming Moment: When Will Cities Embrace AI?

Imagine if your favorite music today still required handling fragile vinyl or cumbersome cassette tapes — unthinkable, right? However, this analogy perfectly describes the outdated reality of parking in many cities across America.

10 Trends Revolutionizing Event Parking

The way drivers travel to, park at, and leave from major venues is changing at a pace never seen before. Here are 10 — plus one bonus — of the most significant parking and mobility trends shaping venue and event operations today and tomorrow.

V2X: Your Car Is Talking. Is Parking Listening?

Thanks to vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology, cars are chatting with traffic lights, toll booths, satellites, cell towers, and even other vehicles. But not parking. And that needs to change.

Why Every Parking Contract Should Require APDS

If you’d told me, back when I first started in parking enforcement, that one day I’d be advocating for international data standards, I probably would’ve asked what a data standard was. I definitely wouldn’t have guessed it’d be the thing that helps transform how cities manage mobility.

How Smart Cars Will Change Exception Handling

Electric vehicle (EV) technology, autonomous features, advanced driver assistance, mobile-first connectivity and sensors enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming not only how people drive, but how they reserve, enter, exit and pay for parking. With these changes comes one inevitable question: What does it mean for exceptions?

Top 10 Special Event Parking Challenges: An Operator’s Guide

This comprehensive guide shares the 10 most consistent critical challenges in operations, strategic management, and guest experience and client management and provides proven strategies to overcome them, along with essential pre-event planning protocols that can prevent most problems before they occur.

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