The Brilliance of Entry Sensors We’ve long since extolled the amazing cost benefits and convenience of having highly accurate sensors count cars as they enter and exit your lot, rather than undertaking the laborious process and prohibitive cost of installing sensors in every spot. To keep cars moving at a safe pace and ensure easy installation,…
Parking Lot Full Your lot is completely full and every spot is paid for. That’s a good thing, right? Actually, it depends. A full lot means your revenue stream is healthy. It signals to retailers and tenants that you’re in a popular location, potentially encouraging higher occupancy. It demonstrates positive use of real estate and shows competing sites…
Greening Up Cars, driving, and parking are decidedly un-green. From fuel emissions to pollution, obstruction of green space to vehicle noise, parking can be hard on the environment. The parking industry has recently made significant inroads to creating more sustainable, greener parking lots and structures. With newly established standards and benchmarks, the parking industry is…
Who’s Parking Here? A parking lot is simply a place to park isn’t it? Actually, no. Every parking structure serves a different purpose, and adhering to that purpose can make the difference between a lot that serves customers well and one that doesn’t. Take a peek at some potential parkers and see why design and circumstance…
Welcome to the Future Remember trying to figure out which buttons you had to press to activate, deactivate, or program a system? Or where to plug which wire without accidentally messing everything up? Or needing a technician to help you figure it all out? We’re here to help you forget all that. If you can swipe…
Our recent webinar, Parking Counting Technology and Academic Environments, is now available online here. The unique scheduling and structure of a college environment creates its own set of challenges for effective parking lots. Teachers and students are always in a rush to get to class on time and don’t want to waste valuable time searching…
Peaceful Parking or Pandemonium? Keeping the parking process running smoothly at events presents unique challenges for lot owners and managers. Not only is ingress at its peak right before events, but often it is in lots that are not used to such high concentrations of parkers. When a large percentage of your business is conducted…
Valuable Commodities When you think of commodities, the first things that jump to mind are probably gold, oil, or diamonds, with parking spots unlikely to make an appearance. But why not? Parking is, in fact, quite the commodity. It’s needed by everyone (who drives), often can be hard to come by, and can be quite valuable…
Less Is More In Parking – Except When It Isn’t While in life many of us try to do more with less, in the parking Industry that isn’t always possible. For close to 100 years, building codes have required builders to create many more parking spots than were needed. However, these minimal requirements have become…
Your Company’s Best Asset Many times, people spend so much time and effort trying to recruit new customers that they forget about the customer base they already have. Existing customers, of course, are the best source of revenue and that makes them your most important asset. Keeping people who already use your services happy is…