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August 27, 2024 - Seven One Seven Parking Enterprises Expands Portfolio with Acquisitions of Parking Locations in Nashville, Tennessee

August 1, 2024 - Innovative SaaS Company Sets New Standards in Enforcement Management with Impressive First-Quarter Results

July 31, 2024 - Japa’s Expansion in Smart EV Charging Solutions at SMUD

July 16, 2024 - Meet GMP AI ExpressLane: Ticketless AI-PARCS with Enhanced LP Matching

July 15, 2024 - PhoenixEV Powers Up University of California, Irvine, with New Electric Bus Fleet

July 15, 2024 - Mid-Atlantic Parking Services (MAPS) Announces Comprehensive Rebranding

July 9, 2024 - Everfield acquires ParkHere, software specialist for smart parking

July 3, 2024 - Mobile Smart City Pango Expands its Relationship with City of Auburn, New York

July 1, 2024 - EnSight Technologies and FAAC Parking Solutions Awarded Contract for AI-Based Parking Management System at Norfolk International Airport

July 1, 2024 - Parking and Mobility Industry Global Software Pioneer, Get My Parking, Promotes Jordan Schware to Senior Vice President, North America

June 25, 2024 - The Neuhoff District Makes the Pivot

June 14, 2024 - Parking Base Announces Partnership with Progression Technology Integrators

June 14, 2024 - Portier USA Introduces Portier AI, a Revolutionary Artificial Intelligence-Driven Parking Guidance Solution that Predicts Parking Availability

April 4, 2024 - Precursor - JVH, Parking Today - This little note is a harbinger of things to come on the blog. I’ll bet you can’t figure out what ...

March 20, 2024 - Take A Leap Into The Future With Parking Access & Revenue Control Systems - At Frogparking, we’re committed to revolutionizing the industry by offering ...

March 18, 2024 - Parking Today Media Gets New CEO And Publisher - JVH, Parking Today - I opened PIE 2024 with the announcement of sale of Parking Today Media to Kevin ...

March 1, 2024 - TECH AND COURTESY — FRIENDS OR ENEMIES - JVH, Parking Today - Do we think in terms of ‘making a customer for ...

Feb 28, 2024 - COULD IT BE THAT THE TECHNOLOGY SIMPLY ISN’T “THERE” YET? - JVH, Parking Today - One thing I noticed, however, was that EV manufacturers were slowing ...

Feb 28, 2024 - IT WILL BE AN AMAZING WEEK - JVH, Parking Today - I never cease to be amazed by the quality of people that are going to be ...

Feb 5, 2024 - How Do We ‘Track’ What We Do - JVH, Parking Today - One of the things we look to is the Gross National Product. It tells us ...

Jan 29, 2024 - Tech And Customer Service - JVH, Parking Today - I reread the post below “from a friend” about his adventure dealing with ...

Jan 19, 2024 - A Parking Newbie - JVH, Parking Today - I was looking back at some blog posts from 20 years ago and found this one fit ...

Jan 19, 2024 - Look Out The Window - JVH, Parking Today - If you are concerned about bus lanes, then take a look at them. If you notice ...

Jan 19, 2024 - Wind Chill -83F - JVH, Parking Today - My sister in law lives in Edmonton, Alberta. She is visiting and reported that the ...

Jan 9, 2024 - Gimme Shelter: The Benefits Of A Booth - Par-Kut offers project-specific drafting and design services in addition to exceptional ...

Jan 2, 2024 - Are We As An Industry Listening? - JVH, Parking Today - Those folks who jumped on the bandwagon for EVs because they felt ...

Dec 25, 2023 - Merry Christmas - JVH, Parking Today - I usually write about the magic of Christmas, the legends and stories that have ...

Dec 15, 2023 - When Will They Ever Learn - JVH, Parking Today - Just what is going to prevent employees from parking in those free spaces ...

Dec 4, 2023 - Black and White vs. Shades of Gray - JVH, Parking Today - A friend tells me that one of the biggest problems of our time is that we ...

Dec 4, 2023 - Colonialism, Disproportionality, Refugees - JVH, Parking Today - Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the ...

Dec 4, 2023 - PIE 2024 It’s Amazing - JVH, Parking Today - I never cease to be amazed at the quality of seminars that have been ...

Nov 20, 2023 - Thanksgiving 2023 - JVH, Parking Today - Often when we think of Thanksgiving we often think of a Norman Rockwell painting ...

Nov 13, 2023 - Veterans in Parking - JVH, Parking Today - I spent an hour with Doug Cram at the California Parking and Transportation meet ...

Oct 26, 2023 - You can Lead a horse to water but… - JVH, Parking Today - The EV crumbling has begun. General Motors and Honda have ...

Oct 16, 2023 - Am Yisrael Chai - JVH, Parking Today - The People of Israel Live. This is a blog that should have been written last week, but ...

Oct 13, 2023 - $1.5 billion, it Boggles the Mind - JVH, Parking Today - Who would have thought that a business transaction in the parking ...

Oct 5, 2023 - The Wheat from the Chaff - JVH, Parking Today - I am periodically overwhelmed with information. My computer desktop is ...

Sep 26, 2023 - The Law of Unintended… - JVH, Parking Today - We don’t seem to think things through to their natural conclusion. Wind ...

Sep 14, 2023 -  Privacy – Is it Important? - JVH, Parking Today - A friend of mine has predicted that the government will shortly outlaw the ...

Sep 8, 2023 - Larry Donoghue, 1919-2023 - For those of you who were honored to know Larry, you know that he was a good man, a gent ...

Aug 31, 2023 - Time… - JVH, Parking Today - Yet we squander time. The internet and social ...

Aug 31, 2023 - Is Getting More EVs on the Road All About Charging? - JVH, Parking Today - But let’s set chargers aside. What about the cost ...

Aug 18, 2023 - Frustration - JVH, Parking Today - Astrid reports over at Park News that a United Airlines Pilot grabbed and ax and took ...

Aug 14, 2023 - Why I love Parking - JVH, Parking Today - Bill Smith wrote a great piece for the September PT on why he loves parking. I ...

Aug 9, 2023 - This isn’t a reason to hate us… - JVH, Parking Today - I have known one of the founders of the data collection service and ...

Aug 4, 2023 - Another Reason they Hate us! - JVH, Parking Today - “The Kid” drives his father’s car to the movies. Parks in the lot out back ...

Aug 1, 2023 - Mobility Conference, Barcelona - JVH, Parking Today - It is certainly true that in the US, the vast majority of motion, that is ...

July 17, 2023 - Taylor and a Concert in the Parking Lot - JVH, Parking Today - Its called the “Swift Effect.” When she sang in Chicago, the ...

July 13, 2023 - 15 Minute City, Part Deux - JVH, Parking Today - The 15 Minute City is the brain child of Carlos Moreno, of the Sorbonne in ... 

July 10, 2023 - “When Will They Ever Learn” - JVH, Parking Today - Report after report are showing us, for various reasons, that wind and ...

July 5, 2023 - Independence Day, 2023 - JVH, Parking Today - We celebrate the Fourth of July as the signing of the Declaration of ...

June 29, 2023 - “To Me, It’s like a Contract” - JVH, Parking Today - Let’s tell it like it is. Our industry has a bad reputation. Garages are dirty, filled ...

June 21, 2023 - 15 Minute City - JVH, Parking Today - The latest idea to come out of our friends in the environmental movement is ...

June 20, 2023 - It’s Hard to Make it Easy! - JVH, Parking Today - Astrid has an interesting article up at parknews.biz about the city of Chico, CA ...

June 14, 2023 - Bring a discussion out into the Sunlight - JVH, Parking Today - My post about “Parking, Is it really as bad as they say ...

June 13, 2023 - Just What is “Mobility?” - JVH, Parking Today - Just what is ‘mobility?’ The best answer I can get is that it’s the use of some ...

June 12, 2023 - IPMI Meets in Ft. Worth - JVH, Parking Today - The IPMI has begun its annual parking conference in Ft.Worth. We wish them ...

June 9, 2023 - Parking — Is it really as bad as people say? - JVH, Parking Today - The book by Henry Grabar, a staff writer for Slate, is ...

June 2, 2023 - But wait…Parking Generates $$$ - JVH, Parking Today - Numerous studies done in the past decades have shown that a simple ...

June 1, 2023 - Just Blame “Climate Change” - JVH, Parking Today - We have a wonderful article by my friend David Freehan on the topic of ...

May 30, 2023 - Memorial Day 2023 - JVH, Parking Today - We remember the fallen on Memorial Day. These patriots have given ...

May 24, 2023 - Don’t forget the Chicoms - JVH, Parking Today - Let’s face it, the Chinese are running the EV market. They produce over ...

May 19, 2023 - Keep it simple… - JVH, Parking Today - Social activist and folk singer hit the nail with his famous hammer with this one ...

May 11, 2023 - Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains The World - JVH, Parking Today - Rather than having parking as a commodity, why can’t ...

May 10, 2023 - How the $8 billion parking industry is evolving to stay alive - JVH, Parking Today - However if you take the parking business in toto, you find that it will ...

April 27, 2023 - EVs – Charging and the Rest - JVH, Parking Today - As I was playing catch up reading through Astrid’s Park News, I find that ...

April 27, 2023 - My Normal Self - JVH, Parking Today - For those of you who might have noticed that I haven’t been my normal self ...

April 18, 2023 - Morgan Freeman – JVH, Parking Today - Oscar winning actor Morgan Freeman came out swinging in an interview this week  ...

April 5, 2023 - It’s the People that Make PIE a Success - JVH, Parking Today - Mounting an event like PIE 2023 is a gargantuan task. I ...

April 5, 2023 - Seminars at PIE Sparked Arguments and Discussion — Right On! - JVH, Parking Today - “After the first two seminars at PIE 2023, people were standing in the halls in ...

March 17, 2023 - The Movie Titles Connected with the Seminars at PIE. What do they mean? - PIE2023 - When  Astrid and I came up with the movie titles, we had some idea in the back of ...

March 15, 2023 - They are Liars and Thieves - PIE2023 - I get an email every day or so from someone wanting to sell me an ‘attendee ...

March 10, 2023 - Parking Industry Expo Slated for March 28-30  – Don’t Miss World Parking Forum - PIE2023 - The event will be kicked off on Tuesday Morning with a “World Parking ...

March 8, 2023 - Parking Industry Expo Focuses On EV Charging - PIE2023 - The purchase of EV charging stations can be difficult for parking ...

March 7, 2023 - Yes, You can get to PIE 2023 from O’Hare - PIE2023 - The Parking Industry Expo will be held March 28-30 at the ...

March 1, 2023 - Patton – Security is an Issue – Our PR is Suffering - PIE2023 - Bob Harkins and Brandy Stanley are heading this seminar at ...

March 1, 2023 - Something Different in the Exhibit Hall at PIE 2023 - PIE2023 - PIE is holding a ‘tailgate’ party in the expo hall.”  ...

Feb 28, 2023 - Why Not a World Parking Forum? - PIE2023 - CEOs from around the world talk about parking, where it is and where they ...

Feb 24, 2023 - The Numbers – What we must look at when buying EV Chargers - PIE2023 - What kind of issue does the prospect of EV (electric vehicle) adoption in the ...

Feb 23, 2023 - EV Charging Leads the Pack at PIE 2023 - JVH, Parking Today - Two major seminars at PIE 2023 will focus on EV  ...

Feb 14, 2023 - From Concept to Reality - JVH, Parking Today - Innovator Jordan Justice meets Clyde Wilson and his 40 years of experience ...

Feb 13, 2023 - "Are US Charging Stations Going To Kill the EV Movement?" - JVH, Parking Today - Astrid nailed it this morning with a post over at Parknews.biz. The headline is above. It’s a ...

Feb 13, 2023 - Premature Electrification - JVH, Parking Today - Let’s face it – the Dodge Ram commercial for a truck that doesn’t exist ...

Feb 9, 2023 - Are We Diluting the Parking Business - JVH, Parking Today - Those of you who own and run garages, surface lots  ...

Feb 6, 2023 - Does Big Wind Need Another Bailout? - JVH, Parking Today - I am musing over an article I read at the blog Hot Air. Seems the ...

Feb 3, 2023 - Frustration VS Acceptance - JVH, Parking Today - This is probably one of those blogs I should write then delete. Let’s see how ...

Feb 2, 2023 - Should we complicate a process, just because we can? - JVH, Parking Today - Are we, as a parking industry, supporting all our ...

Jan 25, 2023 - Light Up the Night You are the Star Party, PIE 2023 - JVH, Parking Today - “Work doesn’t work without play” – Shonda Rhimes ...

Jan 24, 2023 - What Business are we in? Find out at PIE 2023 - JVH, Parking Today - What do the leaders of major parking equipment ...

Jan 13, 2023 - Oh, For Goodness Sake - JVH, Parking Today - The LA Times has a front page article quoting various ‘experts’ reference ...

Parking in the News

March 20, 2025

Images: Growing The Works ATL district adds $18M parking deck

Big changes proposed for parking in city of San Diego

Drop in Los Angeles parking tickets leads to widening city deficit

Here are top 5 parking ticket hot spots in San Francisco so far this year

Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, seeks approval for parking and transportation upgrades

East Palo Alto, California, moves forward with residential permit parking program

Waco, Texas, city council considering possible parking fees at Waco Regional Airport

New app-based parking spaces coming soon to downtown Shreveport, Louisiana

Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, residents unhappy with plans to place metered parking on streets

Michigan State University issued nearly 90,000 parking tickets in 2024

Students Lead Cleanup Efforts at University of Southern Mississippi Parking Garage

Ballooning car sizes are making parking impossible (and bigger bays won’t help) (UK)

Jakarta Introduces 10% Tax on Parking Services (Indonesia)

March 19, 2025

Trump tariffs on Canada force York, Maine, to cut back on parking kiosks due to spike in price

San Francisco Eyes Rooftop Garage Pickleball Courts to Boost Transit Funding

Are Contracted Parking Officers in Santa Ana, California, Giving Too Many Tickets?

Phoenix Launches New Tool for Finding Downtown Parking

Jackson, Michigan, city leaders pause the metered parking system before it takes effect in July

Culver CityBus Launching Automated Bus Lane Enforcement in Culver City, California

Richmond International Airport eyeing two new decks for public parking, rental cars

Chattanooga, Tennessee, Airport To Start In Fall On "Twin" Parking Garage

Parking garage expansion at Fairview Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, draws concerns from residents over the size and traffic flow

Boutique hotel could replace busiest parking lot in downtown Boulder, Colorado

City of Charlotte, North Carolina, launches tool to help truckers find parking

Connecticut to retrofit lampposts as EV chargers

NYC tows illegally parked trucks in southeast Queens after Gothamist report

Deal with Flint, Michigan, DDA would set aside 400 downtown parking spaces for Genesee County employees

Port Townsend, Washington, council hits pause on pay-to-park plan

Is There Anything Classier And More Frustrating At The Same Time Than Valet Parking?

North Carolina bill takes aim at some pavement sealants, parking lot regulations

Montana bill would weaken city’s authority to impose parking standards

Downtown Edmonton, Ontario, business owners warn removing parking would threaten accessibility (Canada)

March 18, 2025

Scam Alert: Topeka, Kansas, residents receive texts of unpaid parking fees

Covenant Health Park(ing) in Knoxville, Tennessee: Yes, free spots will go. No, streets won't stay one-way | FAQ

Columbia, South Carolina, parking rates rise significantly, sparking concerns from some businesses, residents

Fullerton, California, reinforces street sweeping parking citations

Ridgefield, Washington, City Council approves downtown parking plan update

Dothan, Alabama, permanently closing parking lot across from Houston Co. Courthouse

Construction underway on downtown Brandon, Mississippi, parking lot

March 17, 2025

Expert details ways to tackle Waymo's parking problem

Newest music venue in Sacramento, California, could lead to parking changes in surrounding neighborhood

Some San Diego State University students feel event parking inhibits their ability to get to class on time

Denver, Colorado, Is Tired of Subsidizing Parking

Staff at Denver’s Cherry Creek Shopping Center voices frustration amid new parking fee rollout

Rhode Island FC announces over 3,600 parking spaces for 2025 season

New 'barnacle' system locks up drivers with too many tickets in San Marcos, Texas

Truck drivers struggle to find places to park locally and nationally

Downtown Mesa, Arizona, parking overhaul studied

Officials bust some Evanston, Illinois, parking myths

Parking, transportation logistics for NFL Draft in Green Bay, Wisconsin, still hanging in the balance

New apartments planned for lot in downtown Puyallup, Washington. What does that mean for parking?

Nine acres of trees to be clear-cut for tech parking lot in McKownville, New York

Ocean City, Maryland, convention center study shows need for exhibit space, parking

Parking cars at the Ocean Club in pursuit of the American Dream

Caesars Windsor's parking garage in Windsor, Ontario, to remain under construction through 2025 (Canada)

Top 3 UK Airports Parking Advantages You Need to Know (UK)

Moscow Region Expands Paid Parking Zones To 11 Cities (Russia)

March 14, 2025

$33,000 in Salt Lake City, Utah, parking tickets issued for these ADA stalls in 2 months

Cabbies Call New York City Parking Fines Too Harsh, Demand More Dedicated Curb Space

FDA warns of scramble for workspaces and parking spots in Monday return to office

Baltimore, Maryland, residents respond to city's 24-hour parking enforcement

Employees react to new employee parking plan in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee

Columbus, Ohio, warns customers of text scam for parking payments

North Carolina Lawmakers Introduce Bill Targeting Parking Lots

Beaufort, South Carolina, parking ticket prompts class action complaint. Can cities privatize enforcement?

Woodstock, Georgia, Looks to Establish Paid Parking Areas Downtown

Bethany, Delaware, considering parking rate increase, Rehoboth looking at future extended parking fee seasons

Westport, Connecticut, downtown planners wrestle with parking time limits, garage issues

Basalt, Colorado, parking enforcement coming in June

New car park system in English city of Wolverhampton to make life easier for drivers as improvements get underway (UK)

March 13, 2025

Turkey alert! Brookline, Massachusetts, police warn of aggressive birds after parking officer's close encounter

Growing frustration with parking meters in Lawrence, Massachusetts

19 parking lots and fans 'March to the Match': How parking will work at Tidewater Stadium in Providence, Rhode Island

Construction to begin on new Park City Mountain Resort parking structure

‘This lawsuit about to be real entertaining’: Woman drops her Range Rover off with valet at Embassy Suites. She can’t believe the condition she got it back in

Bar Harbor, Maine, parking fund in the spotlight as revenues, expenditures soar

New parking study in the works for Downtown Roanoke, Virginia

Fort Pierce, Florida, plans to charge for parking at three city parks

Folly Beach, South Carolina, leaders talk changes to city’s parking contracts

Odessa, Texas, council will study downtown police parking needs

Cities Tackle Traffic, Parking Through Curb Management

Reforming Parking Doesn’t Require Cities to Reinvent the Wheel

Colorado Springs, Colorado, is considering giving more authority to parking enforcement to impound abandoned vehicles

‘Barnacle’ windshield blocker crackdown targets parking-ticket scofflaws in Scranton, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania legislators draw attention to truck parking concerns

Amsterdam Tests ‘Park + Switch’ Solution: Will It Improve Urban Mobility? (Netherlands)

Chennai to implement a new parking policy, shifting from free to paid parking (India)

March 12, 2025

Why one Chicago suburb is banning EV chargers from public parking garages

If parking relief is granted to just about every Chicago development, why require parking in the first place?

Outdoor plazas, more parking: Pittsburgh’s new airport terminal takes off this fall

Reno-Tahoe International Airport braces for spring break surge with new parking options

Parking ramp construction begins in Rochester, Minnesota

Parking meters coming to Jackson, Michigan, as city approves major downtown change