Industry News
July, 2021
Parker Technology recently announced the promotion of Tammy Baker, formerly VP of Client Experience, to Chief Operating Officer. She has been responsible for building a team and scaling operations to meet and exceed customer expectations and for leading Parker’s efforts to develop and launch a new software platform.
The Town of Bloomsburg, Penn. has announced the city-wide expansion of Pango Mobile Payment for parking and the ZEUS Enforcement solution. “We are excited with this expansion and the continued growth of our Pango solutions,” stated President and the CEO John J. Incandela.
Q-Free announced the sale of its parking division to the unit’s executive vice president, Dave Radford. Morten Andersson, Q-Free’s senior executive vice president of traffic management, says the sale will benefit all stakeholders.
The state of Iowa’s Department of Transportation, is currently conducting a large sale of surplus assets to the public on GovDeals. A longtime seller on the platform, Iowa’s DOT surplus auctions feature nearly 60 surplus assets across multiple categories, including heavy equipment, tractors, heavy trucks, compressors, and more.
Max Spann Real Estate & Auction Co is pleased to announce the sale of an Atlantic City Parking Garage located at 17-27 South New York Avenue in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The 229,474+/- sq. ft. building will be sold by order of the South Jersey Transportation Authority in an online only Auction
Cleverciti announced that El Monte, a suburb of Los Angeles, will provide downtown commuters and visitors with its unique parking guidance solution to help support the local economy, reduce emissions and minimize total vehicle miles travelled.
Endera announced the addition of transportation industry veteran, Bill Williams as Executive Vice President of Business Development. Williams will be responsible for Endera’s overall sales strategy, market expansion, EV adoption education and customer engagement.
It is easier than ever to drive an electric car in Sweden now that Vattenfall’s public charging stations from the InCharge network are connected to the Easypark’s app. The collaboration is gradually being rolled out across the country.
CAME S.p.A. has acquired control over Nepos Sistemas, the Brazilian-based company specialized in providing car park system mainly to airports, malls, supermarkets, hospitals, and other minor sites.
Nedap Identification Systems has a new strategic partnership with Peripass. Peripass offers different yard management solutions in Logistics, Retail, Manufacturing and Food & Beverage to simply close the gap between warehouses and transportation operations.
Blink Charging Co. will acquire European EV charging operator Blue Corner N.V., based in Antwerp, Belgium, and its portfolio of 7,071 charging ports and a robust European charging network. The acquisition gives Blink complete operational control of Blue Corner and its EV charging assets.
Beam Global announced that a globally recognized entertainment franchise has deployed the EV ARC™ solar-powered EV charging system. “This is the first use of EV ARC systems by the entertainment industry. However, we anticipate growth in the area,” said Beam Global CEO Desmond Wheatley. Beam Global announced an order from the California Department of General Services for 52 Beam Global EV ARC™ solar-powered EV charging systems. Beam Global also announced that EV ARC™ solar-powered EV charging systems will be deployed by Construction Art, a commercial design and construction company, at two locations in South Carolina.
Gtechna has partnered with three new Canadian cities: Markham, Goderich, and Mississauga, Ontario. Mississauga underwent significant change after gtechna was awarded a five-year contract through the city’s RFP in August of 2020.
Furthering its dedication to sustainability, JuiceBar, the U.S. based manufacturer of electric vehicle chargers, is pleased to announce a new strategic partnership with UFODRIVE, the first all-digital, all-electric car rental company.
The Pittsburgh Parking Authority has announced the launch of the Flowbird app to make it easier for motorists to find and pay for parking downtown.
Curbside management and smart city parking firm AppyWay has announced that Harrogate Borough Council’s cabinet and senior members at North Yorkshire County Council have confirmed the appointment of AppyWay and their Smart City Parking solution following a successful trial across Harrogate town center.
Mayor Brandon Scott and the Parking Authority of Baltimore City and the Department of Transportation announced that the last of the city’s on-street Pay and Display parking meters have been replaced with new Pay by License Plate parking meters.
LAZ Parking Chairman and CEO Alan B. Lazowski announced that LAZ has acquired Serco Parking Services, the parking enforcement, and parking meter management services of Serco Inc. LAZ Parking also announced that it has partnered with Applico, Inc. to support the digital transformation of its services and the parking industry. Applico will help LAZ incorporate “proximity on-demand” services or PODS into its traditional parking operations. LAZ Parking announced that it has been selected by the City of Syracuse, NY, to be the sole operator of its municipal parking garages.
There remains a significant shortage of drivers in the trucking industry. A growing number of companies in the trucking and transportation industry, including Fleet Advantage, are realizing the unique skillsets that women offer. Organizations like Women in Trucking also have been instrumental in advocating for women to learn more about opportunities in the industry. Fleet Advantage released its latest white paper: “How Unbundling Your Full-Service Lease Can Save You Millions.”
L&T Technology Services Limited announced that it worked with Intel Corporation to develop an outdoor smart parking solution. The solution is powered by the Intel distribution of the OpenVINO Toolkit to run AI inferencing models on Intel Xeon scalable processors and Intel Movidius VPUs.
eParkingCitation.com can help the parking industry get paid. eParkingCitation is a FREE service. eParkingCitation taps a nationwide VIN database to find registered and legal owners and lien holders, and it allows users to send “pay now” notifications to lien holders and owners using the VIN instead of the license plate.
Parking in cities is a complex problem. Existing parking availability technology tends to be expensive, difficult to install, or even invasive. That’s why Sidewalk Labs is excited to introduce Pebble: a low-cost, easy-install, privacy-preserving vehicle sensor designed to help manage parking in innovative and sustainable ways.
The German embedded vision pioneer Vision Components celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2021. The year was duly kicked off with a major product launch: VC picoSmart, currently the world’s smallest embedded vision system.
HONK and Robbins Parking, Vancouver Island’s parking solutions provider, team up to bring touch-free payments to off-street municipal parking in the City of Nanaimo. Residents and visitors can pay for parking by downloading the free HonkAPP from the App Store or Google Play. HONK also announced a pilot parking program with the City of Guelph where users can tap or scan their phone on a HonkTAP smart station or download the HonkAPP from the App Store or Google Play.
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport recently opened the ATLWest deck, a newly constructed 5,000 space parking facility, and the latest project HUB completed with this long-standing client.
Monaco has launched the Monapass mobile application and Open Payments, in partnership with Monaco City Hall and Compagnie des Autobus de Monaco. It called on the technological expertise and know-how of Flowbird to deliver the solution.
Phoenix Motorcars announced that it has been named to Fast Company’s 2021 annual list of World Changing Ideas. The SPI Energy Ltd. group company Phoenix Motorcars, has been recognized as a finalist in the Artificial Intelligence and Data category for its EZ ZEUS autonomous shuttle bus.
EnSight Technologies announced the successful completion of a parking guidance grid connecting Redwood City’s municipal parking structures with several private parking garages into a single easy-to-use and manage parking guidance system.
The parking technology company EasyPark and the mobile technology company Fortumo are today launching carrier billing payments for parking in Switzerland. Over 8 million people in the country can now easily pay for their parking via EasyPark parking-app, all over Switzerland by charging the fee to their phone bill.
Mobility startup and smart parking pioneer ‘Get My Parking’ (GMP) announced a fundraise of INR 43 crores led by IvyCap Ventures. Existing investor IAN Fund also participated in the round. Masterkey Holdings served as the investment banker. The company was founded in 2015 by Chirag Jain and Rasik Pansare.
Sony Europe has announced its IMX500 image sensors with AI processing functionality are at the core of three smart city trials being run by Envision in the municipality of Rome. These are intended to cut the city’s transport-related pollution and accidents at pedestrian crossings.
Wooster Products’ NITEGLOW® Emergency Egress System, which includes high quality photoluminescent (glow in the dark) products to illuminate stair treads, handrails, door handles and door frames, and obstructions, so that occupants can evacuate safely in a darkened environment, will be featured in WOC Booth #N2964.
Listening to the ever-growing customer demand around digital payments, Parkopedia has announced that it is extending its existing parking payment platform to include additional vehicle-centric services such as Electric Vehicle (EV) charging, fueling and tolling payments.
SP Plus Corporation announced the addition of touchless reservation and commerce options to its services at Charles M. Schulz – Sonoma County Airport in Santa Rosa, California.
Phoenix Parking Solutions is elevating the guest experience by optimizing gateless service in Atlanta. Phoenix owner Jeff Patterson is teaching property owners and property management companies how to replace an antiquated system that features paper tickets, costly gate arms and payment kiosks with a cloud-based parking method.
Fleet Advantage announced demand for the sales of its off-lease heavy-duty trucks has increased 188 percent between the period of October through end of April compared with its fiscal first quarter ending September 30. The increase correlates with the rising overall demand for used trucks in today’s market.
Travel is on the rise and a new company, STOW IT, is making long-term airport parking an easy option that has never existed. Set up and designed for long-term and monthly travelers, STOW IT partners with airport parking operators to offer the cheapest monthly rates at over 20 airports around the country.
