Automated Parking at Zion National Park Zion National Park is home to towering rock formations, narrow canyons, and breathtaking trails. Four and a half million people from around the world head to Zion each year to witness its beauty and explore its wonder. The Client Access to Zion roads is by shuttle only during the…
Parking Data for Everyone The real time parking data that OpenSpace provides isn’t just a convenience. It’s powerful data that can be harnessed in multiple ways to benefit everyone. Patients, administrators, medical staff, and essentially anyone who visits or uses your facility can see and use your parking data. OpenSpace collects up-to-the-minute stats on parking…
The Sudden Popularity of Parks Parks across the country have seen a huge surge in popularity over the past six months. Previously empty visitor parking lots are suddenly packed and park administration is often struggling to keep up. With so many activities closed down, reopened, and often shut again, there aren’t many options of things…
Empty or Overflowing The pandemic we’re all living through has created a strange disparity. Many places, like corporate workplaces and malls, sit virtually empty. Yet others, like medical campuses and delivery services, are struggling to keep up with demand. Hospital parking is always challenging, as patients and employees come and go throughout the day and…
The Learning Must Go On Universities haven’t shuttered their doors. Certainly not virtually. Distance learning programs for the fall are purported to be more robust (and certainly more well planned) than their spring counterparts were. But many students are still headed back to campus. Universities are often offering a mix of in-person, distance, and hybrid…
Can You Trust Parking Ratios? Many developers decide how much parking to build for a new project based on parking ratios. But in today’s world, many people choose alternate forms of transportation like biking, ride hailing services, public transportation, and even sometimes their own two feet. Parking ratios haven’t been updated to reflect our changing…
The Plan and the Reality It seems like everyone was caught by surprise by the severity of the health crisis and the resulting unprecedented shutdowns. Were cities prepared or caught unaware? Did they have an emergency plan in place? More importantly, was it even relevant to this type of emergency? And who directed and…
Creativity During Chaos Parking Logix hosted an interactive session with leading university parking operators (live from their living rooms!) last month. Josh Eisin, the company’s president, hosted the webinar. Panelists included parking managers from Baylor University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and University of Delaware. Check out the recorded video session here. Find out how university…
The absence of car noise, gate lifts and parkers chatting on their phones has left a maddening silence across the parking industry worldwide. For others like me who have been in parking for years, there is nothing worse than seeing emptiness in your lots at times they were once full. What are we supposed to…
What Can Parking Guidance Do For You? As you sit in your home office (or living room) and catch up on those tasks you never seem to get to, consider what smart parking can do for your company. Not quite sure what it can do? Here’s some quick ways that parking guidance can help you.…