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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

December 4, 2024

December 3, 2024 - Parking, resort fees going up at MGM Resorts Las Vegas Strip properties

December 3, 2024 - Vehicle Crashes Into Tampa Parking Garage Building; No Injuries Reported

December 3, 2024 - Let’s Remember The Ghost Parking Lot

December 2, 2024 - Residents fume over plan to cut back free parking in San Fransisco

December 3, 2024 - Parking fees resume in downtown Taos, New Mexico

December 2, 2024 - Tighter parking restrictions may be coming to Charlottesville, Virginia, streets

December 3, 2024 – District DOT Announces Implementation of New Greater U Street Performance Parking Zone in Washington, D.C.

December 3, 2024 - City of Columbia, South Carolina, parking rates are set to double. Here’s what you need to know

December 2, 2024 - Sunset Beach, North Carolina, to implement paid parking on town's island

December 3, 2024 - Roswell, Georgia, parking study explores millions in future city revenue

December 3, 2024 - Commuters voice safety concerns after weeks without lights at park-and-ride lot in Bowie, Maryland

December 3, 2024 - Parking at City Park in San Marcos, Texas, will cost nonresidents, technology to remove need for in-person enforcement staff

December 3, 2024 - New Braunfels, Texas, City Council approves parking requirement amendments

December 3, 2024 - Jackson, Wyoming, Town Council considers parking garage fee

December 3, 2024

December 2, 2024 - Nearly $4 million repairs underway at Ascension St. Vincent’s Riverside parking garage in Jacksonville, Florida

December 2, 2024 - 244 vehicles towed on 2nd night of overnight winter parking ban in Chicago, City says

December 2, 2024 - Cherished memento taken in Kansas City, Missouri, car theft at Arts District Parking Garage

December 2, 2024 - $250M 'transformative' mixed-use development planned for downtown Louisville, Kentucky, surface parking lot

December 2, 2024 - Easton, Maryland, Explores Solutions to Downtown Parking Challenges

December 2, 2024 - Rules for providing minimum parking space in La Crosse, Wisconsin, face possible repeal

December 2, 2024 - 'Safe Parking' returning to Green Bay, Wisconsin, for people without a home

December 1, 2024 - University of Nebraska at Kearney proposes land swap with Newman Center to allow additional parking for students

December 2, 2024

November 30, 2024 - DFW Airport announces transition to cashless payments at parking plaza exits

November 27, 2024 - San Francisco International Airport passengers can now check their bags in the parking lot

November 27, 2024 - Amid rise in airport car thefts nationwide, Cleveland Hopkins ups patrols at parking lots

November 30, 2024 - Mysterious concrete barriers in L.A. neighborhood preventing homeless people from parking overnight

December 1, 2024 - San Francisco considers converting 2-hour parking to "pay or permit" in specific parts of the city

November 28, 2024 - With demand for spots on rise, city of Napa, California, to study building new parking garage

November 29, 2024 - Little Rock, Arkansas, parking enforcement mistakenly writes tickets on free parking day

November 26, 2024 - Crews waiting for fire below Williamsburg parking lot in James County, Virginia, to die before they investigate cause

December 1, 2024 - Mayo Clinic agreement outlines Rochester, Minnesota, parking expectations for rapid-transit hub

December 2, 2024 - Southeast Missouri State University collects thousands of dollars in parking tickets, student government invests in new system

November 28, 2024 - New Castle, Pennsylvania, city council approves parking garage improvements

November 27, 2024 - Bellingham, Washington, mulls ending parking-space mandates to boost housing

December 1, 2024 - City of Adelaide parking machines prompt privacy fears over rego requirements, digital receipts (Australia)

November 27, 2024

November 27, 2024 - Unlocking Tenant Satisfaction: The Upside of Parking Technology

November 27, 2024 - Scammers using fake QR codes at parking lots to steal personal information in Tampa, Florida

November 26, 2024 - Tucson, Arizona, in process of changing EV parking codes

November 25, 2024 - Isle of Palms, South Carolina, parking enforcement under scrutiny, AG deems third-party system illegal

November 26, 2024 - Paid parking program nets Oak Island, South Carolina, $1.1 million

November 26, 2024 - 'I'm not paying': Indianapolis woman gets pricey ticket from company with history of issues despite paying for parking at downtown lot

November 26, 2024 - Paid parking district established for downtown Cheyenne, Wyoming

November 25, 2024 - Parking ticket fraud on rise in France -- how to avoid being scammed (France)

November 26, 2024 - Drivers slapped with eye-watering 41,000 parking tickets daily prompting calls for urgent action (U.K.)

November 26, 2024 - Bulgaria's Sofia Airport opens new parking areas

November 26, 2024

November 26, 2024 - Pittsburgh's purple curb parking zone program has been extended indefinitely

November 25, 2024 - Charges expected for man who drove car off Bally’s parking garage in Evansville, Indiana

November 25, 2024 - Maine’s Portland International Jetport planning to expand parking for flyers

November 25, 2024 - Grand Forks, North Dakota, Corporate and Central parking ramp repairs 33% lower than estimate

November 25, 2024 - Albuquerque, New Mexico, department sheds light on object attached to some parking meters

November 25, 2024 - City of Columbia, South Carolina, proposes changes to parking rates

November 25, 2024 - Is a parking garage the solution to parking at the University of New Haven?

November 25, 2024 - Initial downtown paid parking proposal presented to Poulsbo, Washington, council

November 25, 2024 - Kennewick, Oregon, police investigating concert parking fee scam

November 25, 2024 - ‘It cut her good’: Man allegedly booby-traps ‘no parking’ sign with razor blades, woman finds out the hard way

November 26, 2024 - Say bye to freeform e-bike parking in London following new rules to reduce bike mess on streets (U.K.)

November 25, 2024 - Certain Rideau Canal lots in Ontario have switched to cashless paid parking (Canada)

November 25, 2024

November 22, 2024 - Chicago parking garages warn proposed tax hike will drive up their rates

November 24, 2024 - Underground fire causes part of Virginia parking lot to collapse

November 25, 2024 - Eliminated parking minimums in Dallas gets closer to city council

November 24, 2024 - Hyatt Houston’s $65 Valet Catastrophe: Locked Safe Strands Guests—Was Their Fix Enough?

November 22, 2024 - Reading, Massachusetts, hits pause on downtown paid parking

November 22, 2024 - Abandoned Runway At Syracuse Hancock Airport To Be Repurposed Into Parking Lot

November 21, 2024 - Parking Lot 3 Demolition Nearly Complete in Manhattan Beach, California

November 21, 2024 - Leesburg, Virginia, Council Retreats From Doubling Developer Parking Fees Downtown

November 23, 2024 - Parking Lot Full of Wooden Solar Canopies in France

November 23, 2024 - Premium Parking at Trafford Centre in Manchester, England - how it will work, how much it costs and reaction to first pay-for car park (U.K.)

November 22, 2024

November 21, 2024 - Driver charged with DUI after car hangs from 3rd floor of downtown Memphis, Tennessee, parking garage

November 22, 2024 - Bellemeade Street Parking Deck in Greensboro, North Carolina, to be demolished, city officials say

November 22, 2024 - Walgreens Parking Nightmare: Chicago Shoppers Get $170 Boot Even Though They Went Inside

November 21, 2024 - Norfolk International Airport parking staff focusing on accuracy, efficiency as holidays near

November 21, 2024 - Can South Carolina beach towns outsource parking enforcement to private companies? Attorney General’s office weighs in

November 21, 2024 - Does Lexington, South Carolina, have enough downtown parking? Study has a surprising answer

November 21, 2024 - Proposed University of Maryland parking lots could undermine transit-oriented development plans along Purple Line

November 22, 2024 - San Luis Obispo, California, making changes to improve downtown parking experience

November 22, 2024 - Jackson County, Michigan, plans to drill 100 holes in the courthouse parking lot. Here’s why.

November 21, 2024 - Ypsilanti, Michigan, mulls makeover of deteriorating West Cross Street parking lot

November 21, 2024 - Paid parking coming to Ventura Harbor Village, California: $1/hr weekend parking fees to begin by May 2025

November 22, 2024 - Rochester, New Hampshire, opens new parking lot. Is paid parking next?

November 21, 2024 - Williston, Vermont, board puts ARPA funds toward parking lot

November 21, 2024 - Lava destroys Blue Lagoon parking lot in latest eruption on Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland

November 21, 2024

November 20, 2024 - City of Santa Maria, California, seeking bids for revitalization of 50-year-old downtown parking garage

November 20, 2024 - Pittsburgh's purple curbs-- and their fees-- could be sticking around for good

November 20, 2024 - Buttigieg: Truck Parking Shortage Remains a Priority

November 20, 2024 - Ruoff Music Center in Noblesville, Indiana, will charge for parking in 2025. Here's how much

November 20, 2024

November 18, 2024 - Over 30 cars stolen from Atlanta airport parking lots so far this year

November 18, 2024 - Don't panic at the parking lot! You can now reserve parking spaces at Harry Reid International Airport

November 19, 2024 - New Technology Debuts in Leesburg, Virginia, Town Hall Parking Garage

November 19, 2024 - Truck parking operators claim paid parking saves money, but drivers are not so sure

November 19, 2024 – The Step-by-Step Approach to Repealing Parking Mandates in Spokane, Washington

November 19, 2024 - How parking will drive the coming Adams-Council housing development deal in New York City