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Parking Bulks Up, Adds MaaS: SpotHero and Moovit Announce Partnership
Those awaiting the imminent death of parking might want to keep the champagne corked a bit longer.
Reading breathless media accounts, you might be tempted to throw on a black veil, light some candles and make sure the funeral director is on the speed dial. Swarmed by biting Ubers, overdosing on parking taxes, strangled by congestion pricing and, of course, trampled by the oncoming hordes of autonomous vehicles, the parking industry is surely doomed to death by a thousand cuts.
But sometimes “getting cut” is a good thing, no?
Parking may indeed be disappearing, but it is not dying. Rather, parking is becoming a transparent component of a seamless journey to and from the mobility consumer’s destination of choice.
Like a bodybuilder, parking is shedding some fat and adding some muscle, in this case MaaS – “Mobility-as-a-Service”.
Parking professionals are realizing that while managing parking is sometimes akin to being marooned on a desert island, building bridges can end the isolation.
MaaS is just such a bridge, continuing what we have termed in the past, the “vertical integration of the parking experience”. But perhaps we should now coin a new term, the “vertical integration of the mobility experience”.
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Actually Count the Money
Actually Count the Money - Everything going into – or out of – a count room should be counted. The vault at the failed FNBE is equivalent to our parking and transportation count rooms. A manager or supervisor should have been checking a count employee (like Ms. Myers) before and after the count to verify that no extraneous and unnecessary items (say, like baggies and tape) are going into the count room and nothing unauthorized (say, like cash) is exiting the count room. Continue reading
Some “Constructive” Advice
Some busy garage owners and managers do the same thing: they wait for their garage to “get a flat” before they understand how it was built in the first place. Like an owner’s manual, here are a few items relating to the construction of a deck that every garage owner or manager should know, do, or have handy.Continue reading
Road Diets and Parking
A Road Diet is a transportation planning technique that aims to reduce or rechannel traffic on roadways and create space for alternative forms of transportation, such as cycling, walking and public transit. A Road Diet is primarily achieved by eliminating traffic lanes or reducing their width. Road Diets can also create "new" parking.Continue reading
The 12 Most Common Count Room Security Fails
If you count your cash in-house, minimize your risk. Experienced auditors in parking and toll operations have noted the following shortcomings commonly found with in-house count rooms:Continue reading
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Actually Count the Money
Actually Count the Money - Everything going into – or out of – a count room should be counted. The v
Some “Constructive” Advice
Some busy garage owners and managers do the same thing: they wait for their garage to “get a flat” b
Road Diets and Parking
A Road Diet is a transportation planning technique that aims to reduce or rechannel traffic on roadw
The 12 Most Common Count Room Security Fails
If you count your cash in-house, minimize your risk. Experienced auditors in parking and toll operat
