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from all around the world will spend their days learning, networking, exploring, sharing information, and letting the good times roll in New Orleans, La. It’s the biggest and best show in the parking industry, and it’s going to be chock-full of exhibits, chances to meet and mingle with new and old friends, the top professional development in the business, and lots of fun.

Have you registered yet? Need some more infor-

How one company structures its internship and development programs to produce top-notch future employees and give students invaluable real-world experience.

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EAR FUTURE PARKING PROFESSIONAL: Whether it’s your first internship or third, finding a company to work for during your summer break or even while you are taking classes can be a daunting task. Ideally, you want to work for a company that will allow you to learn as much as possible about your industry rather than limiting you to one aspect or department. Post-graduation, you may also be looking for a professional development program or apprenticeship that can give you an opportunity to work for a company during a six-month period as a way to test the waters or get your foot in the door.

Getting Started The first step for students seeking an internship is to research companies they want to work for and compile a wish list of skills they want to obtain. Most companies will include information about their philosophy, unique value proposition, and case studies about past projects or press releases announcing new projects won. Social media is also an excellent way to gain insight into a company’s culture. For example, a company may post information about projects under construction on its LinkedIn page or post pictures of employee events or community service projects on Facebook. Doing some due diligence to look into a company’s culture is a great way to prepare for an interview.

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nnovation is the order of the day in parking, and while innovation can be found in every corner of the

industry, it’s particularly prevalent when it comes to technology. A group of Bryant

invented as part of a class project.

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Bryant University is a private university located in Smithfield, R.I. For those who grew up in New England, it’s best known as the former home of the New England Patriots’ training camp. The Patriots stopped training there after the 2001 season, and today the university is best known for its college of business.

AssetWorks Booth #706 AssetWorks focuses on software solutions for the public sector including parking management software. Stop by our booth for the latest information on our current BOSSCARS parking management software for higher education, as well as to learn about what we have in the works for next generation parking solutions. AssetWorks also specializes in facility management software.

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The Idea The Bryant students last semester developed a speed bump Students Angelina Leandres and that generates energy as cars Noah Pease led the team that go over it, ideally to power a developed the kinetic speed bump. parking garage. How and why did they do it? The process started when professor Mark Vozella assigned students in his global foundations of organization and business class the task of creating a company.

After that, the company was to develop a product, business plan, and marketing plan. Five students—Angelina Leandres, Sean Cappellini, David Meikle, Jake Fontes, and Noah Pease—decided to focus their efforts on piezoelectricity, the electric charge that accumulates in certain solid materials when pressure is applied.

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Alpha Technologies Booth #605 Alpha Technologies designs and manufactures power solutions for parking, security, traffic monitoring, communications and data networks worldwide, including UPSs, surge suppressors, off-grid and grid-tied solar, mobile/ self-contained power solutions, enclosures, batteries, and services including design, installation and repair.

Booth #809 The AeroVironment story began in the air; early on we also understood the impact our energy technologies could have on the ground— leading to our role in the development of the GM Impact, the prototype for the world’s first commercially produced electric vehicle.

Since then, our EV test systems and charging solutions have fast become the intelligent choice for electric vehicle manufacturers, fleet managers and drivers, paving the way for a cleaner, more sustainable world.

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College students develop a kinetic speed bump with a perfect real-world application: parking.

3C Payment Booth #503 Parking focused integrated card processing solutions for both card-present and cardnot-present environments. End-to-End Encryption, tokenization, EMV, PCI-DSS scope reduction, and more with full range of centralized back-office tools and functionalities.

Solutions for off-street, P&D, valet, pay-byphone recurring monthly fees, ecommerce for website reservations / permits / monthly fees / citations.

For more information contact: Bill Lewis Sr. Sales Manager North America, 3C Payment USA Corp., bill.lewis@3CPayment.com, Tel: +1 630.282.1204

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In addition, personal references are important. If you can find students who have previously done internships at the company of your choice, you can ask them about the type of work they got to do and whether they were able to add any of the project work to their portfolio.

(Fetching coffee and being stuck in the copy room are not going to help you build your portfolio!)

Another important factor to consider is compensation.

Some companies offer a stipend, which is payment for the duration of an internship. Others will pay on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. This is important to know up front.

Geographic location and desirability, as well as knowing where you will live and how you will get to your internship, are also high on the priority list. If you

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The 2017 IPI Expo comes to New Orleans. here’s no exhibition like the annual IPI Expo, and this year’s is better than ever, with suppliers and experts sharing ideas, new technologies, products, and services in a hands-on way. Talk about, touch, and try

the things that will change the way you do business for the better!

This listing is current as of press time and designed to help you navigate and plan for your time at the Expo. For more information, visit IPIConference. parking.org or download the IPI Conference & Expo app—search the App Store.

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The Industry’s Biggest Marketplace The 2017 IPI Expo Comes to New Orleans.

Booth #1221 Aiphone Corporation is the world’s largest intercom manufacturer. Our products range from simple audio-only door answering intercoms to enterprise level systems. We cover everything from buildings to parking garages to emergency stations posted throughout a campus. Aiphone is the first and only intercom manufacturer to win the coveted Deming Prize, as well as ISO 9001, 9002, and 14001 certification.

All Traffic Solutions Booth #601 All Traffic Solutions is consistently recognized as a leading innovator in the traffic safety market for speed displays, message signs, imaging products and intelligent transportation systems, delivering groundbreaking levels of service and product capability. By integrating cloud technology into all of its products, All Traffic Solutions allows customers to manage all their equipment and data remotely, through a browser resulting in better traffic safety outcomes and initiatives related to vehicle-to-infrastructure solutions and smart cities.

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Amano McGann, Inc. Booth #717

American Institute of Steel Construction

Automated Valet Parking Manager, LLC Booth #907

AWID, Inc.

Booth #1219 Parking garage owners must insist on an indepth review of a steel-framed alternate to compare the cost and availability of material along with the construction schedule of comparable concrete systems. High-performance coating technologies and hot-dip galvanizing offer life expectancies of more than 30 years with minimal maintenance. For more information contact the Steel Solutions Center for a no cost conceptual solution. E-mail them at solutions@aisc.org or call 866.ASK.AISC.

Booth #602 AWID, a Global Provider of Access Control Cards, Tags and Readers for the Parking and Physical Access Control Markets. Our focus is Improving Security while Reducing Risks, Threats and Losses. Our product mix includes Proximity Readers that outperform competitors at lower price points, to Long-Range Readers, that utilize LF and UHF technologies.

We have you covered up to 25 FEET! Stop by to see our NEW uAxcess UHF Readers!

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Booth #1208 Apriva helps parking professionals prepare for EMV and future payment technologies.

Apriva’s Integration Services include pre-built solutions that make it simple to add payment processing to attended, unattended, mobile, recurring, and web environments. Our payment processors support credit, debit, stored value, loyalty, EBT, check, and EMV transactions, as well as emerging alternate forms of payment. For parking payments now and into the future, visit developer.apriva.com.

Booth #1238 Ballparc develops cloud apps for smarter parking management. Visit us to learn more about our industry-leading mobile event parking revenue system or sophisticated enforcement and violation management system.

Bemrose Booth Paragon Limited Booth #710 Bemrose Booth Paragon supply billions of car park and transit tickets worldwide. ‘We are looking forward to the Nashville IPI show, because we want to talk to US parking operators and let them know that our competitors are charging too much for their tickets.

BBP will supply car park tickets & receipts for all major parking equipment including Cale, Parkeon, Amano, Zeag, WPS, Federal APD, 3M, Designa, Skidata and more.

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DEPARTMENTS

SHOWTIME 4 Entrance 6 Five Things 8 Consultants Corner 1 0 The Green Standard 1 2 The Business of Parking 1 4 Financial Matters 1 6 Parking Spotlight 1 8 IPI Ask the Experts 5 2 IPI in Action 54 State & Regional Spotlight 5 6 Community Digest 6 3 New and Renewing IPI Members 6 4 Parking Consultants 6 6 Advertisers Index 6 6 Parking Break

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t’s IPI Conference & Expo time! I get just as excited (maybe more excited) than IPI members when the show rolls around because it’s my yearly opportunity to see all my parking friends in person, including people I don’t know yet. What a great time of year!

We have lots of information and tips in this issue to help you make the most of your Conference experience, starting with our Expo listings. This is the biggest parking-specific exhibition in the world, and it’s well worth your while to spend a little time planning ahead. Use the listings to pinpoint products and services you’re looking for (or might look for in the future) so you’re sure to visit those exhibitors. Once you have your list, visit ipiconference.parking.org and click on “Expo” to easily schedule appointments with our experts—the best way to see, touch, and try before you buy.

Also in this issue is an introduction to the whole event and to New Orleans, a wonderful old city with lots of history and culture. Make the most of your time in town to explore some of its terrific features, and then take advantage of all of IPI’s networking and education offerings to learn the most, advance your own career, and meet colleagues from around the world. It’s an opportunity like no other, and it’s true what they say—the more you put in, the more you’ll get out of it.

If you see me running around the Convention Center, please put out a hand and say hello—I’d love to meet or catch up with you! I’m always looking for great article ideas, and it’s a great time for us to chat. I’m really looking forward to it!

As always, my email address is below—please get in touch whether or not I’ll see you in New Orleans next month (but I really hope I see you there).

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PROFESSIONAL PRIORITIES (YES, DEAR)

By David Hill, CAPP, MA, CD

“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”

—Albert Einstein

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pring is here, budgets are approved, conference season is beginning, and it’s time to start thinking about new stuff: concepts, gadgets, techniques. I have always hated the reporting and budget approval cycle—six months of begging for forgiveness for what you accomplished last year and begging support for what you need to accomplish in the upcoming year to an indifferent and sometimes hostile authority. With that past, I find I can enjoy the longer, sunnier days, warming temperatures, happier wildlife, and top down on the convertible.

We always do what is urgent before we do what is important.

Springtime gives me pause to stop and think about what I have done before and what I am going to do next. I also look at all of my unfinished projects and wistfully wonder when I am going to get back at them. My wife looks at them too and also wonders, albeit a bit more assertively.

I had a shorter list of projects than usual this year; it was either finish building the new walk-in closet or finish my last university degree. To my wife’s dismay, I chose the latter. “What?” she said.

“Do you want to be one of those overeducated bums who drives taxis and parks cars for a living?” I explained that I was already one of those bums and that it is important to firmly establish my professional bummery as competition among bums is fierce, the younger bums are kicking bum, and the standards that define bumming are always on the rise. Continuing education is important, even if you have to learn by the seat of your pants. As a consequence, I will be seeking enlightenment … right after I finish building the closet.

While I am looking forward to university to receive one sort of education, I am also counting the days till we all meet for our annual professional development and trade education in New Orleans. This year’s IPI Conference & Expo in the Big Easy promises to be the biggest and best ever. New Orleans is electrified with music and entertainment, an exciting and accommodating town, worthy of its reputation as a sort of Disney for adults; it is a suitable prelude to our future Conference locations in Orlando and Anaheim. Hope to see you there!

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DAVID HILL, MA, CAPP, CD, is CEO of Clayton Hill Associates and member of IPI’s Board of Directors He can be reached at david@ clayton-hill.com.

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Technical Editor Rachel Yoka, CAPP, LEED AP BD+C yoka@parking.org

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FIVE THINGS

FIVE WAYS PARKING PROFESSIONALS CAN CELEBRATE EARTH DAY First celebrated in 1970, Earth Day calls for an everyday awareness that our shared planet is both our current home and our common future. IPI’s Sustainability Framework, revised last month, provides a foundation for sustainability in our industry.

Download it at parking.org/sustainabilityframework.

We wanted to share some everyday things that help us build awareness and foster positive changes—here’s a five-item checklist to take stock of your operations:

1 2 3 4 5 Do you offer recycling? Spec it in your next contract and set target diversion ratios.

Is your wayfinding and parking guidance system effectively mitigating the time it takes a user to find a stall? Develop a benchmark to prove it.

What’s lighting your garages? Take the LEEP. Check it out at leepcampaign.org.

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Do you offer enough quality bike parking?

Ask your customers.

Do you utilize alternative energy, such as photovoltaics, wind, or geothermal, to run your operation? No need to build; just purchase clean energy through your utility!

Make Earth Day every day. Take an action that you can do not just once a year but can repeat. Change your commute so you can drive less. Use a reusable water bottle instead of buying bottled water. Environmental impacts are cumulative and mitigation strategies will see a result over time if practiced consistently.

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CONSULTANTS CORNER

WHAT DO I DO FOR MY PEOPLE

By Vanessa Cummings, CAPP, Mdiv

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arking and transportation directors, managers, supervisors, team leaders, and others often wonder how the people on their team got hired. Who made that decision and why? Then they get knocked back to reality when they realize they were the one who hired the wonderful person who currently irritates the stew out of them!

Oh, this is not about you. It’s about other managers, directors, supervisors, and team leaders whose employees are unhappy or don’t appear to be performing at the top of their games. Good employees rarely leave jobs; they leave supervisors and management. Thus, the question is, are your people ready to leave, and if so, why?

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Showing Appreciation As employers, we have to put in the work and show appreciation for the people who keep us going. You may say that if they leave, there are many others who would love to have their jobs. That may be true, but what is the real cost to process the paperwork, schedule and interview people, do background checks, offer positions, get turned down on occasion, have a failed search or two, hire someone, train them, and sometimes purchase clothing for them? That is much simpler and cheaper than investing in the people you have, right?

Rethink where you cut your budget. When you reduce funding for staff training and development you may end up increasing your overall expenses. People who feel unappreciated may become less efficient and less committed over time.

There are many staff training opportunities available, including speakers, consultants, trainers, and others who will come to you—including trainers from IPI. If you have a large team, hire a trainer or speaker to come to you. That will save your company travel expenses while still allowing your staff to get a few hours or a day of training away from their job responsibilities.

What do you do for your people? Start by saying thanks!

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VANESSA CUMMINGS, CAPP, MDiv, is supervisor of parking at Columbus State Community College and a member of IPI’s Consultants Committee. She can be reached at vcumming@cscc.edu.

Employees make your operation tick. How well they work is often affected by how you treat them, whether you share words of thanks, or if you provide opportunities for them to stretch and grow. Many companies, colleges, and universities experience budget cuts, and guess what? One of the first places to reduce the bottom line is often training, conferences, and other forms of professional development.

When people work hard, report daily, and are rarely told thanks, they may begin to experience feelings of being taken for granted. Most of us have heard supervisors say, “We pay you to do a good job so why do we need to say thanks or good job?” However, they take time to let you know when you mess up. It’s like being married and your spouse never says he or she appreciates you or loves you because he or she expects you to know it.

Those marriages tend to not last long.

Investing in your employees is like building a good marriage. The analogy is simple: You spend at least onethird of every work day at work, which is often more than your waking and family time. Therefore, it is important that all parties develop a healthy work relationship, similar to what you do when you get married.

Three major milestones or steps in a marriage are: ●● The honeymoon. You are happy, giddy, and glad to be there. ●● The return home. You begin to settle in and adjust to your new place and life with someone else. ●● The reality and long haul. This is when you realize that a good marriage takes work, commitment, patience, give and take, respect, and appreciation for one another.

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THE GREEN STANDARD

IS GOOGLE THE FUTURE OF PARKING AND SUSTAINABILITY?

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Google is making a major play to be front and center in this process. Google and Dan Doctoroff, a longtime executive in Bloomberg’s private and public ventures, last year announced the formation of Sidewalk Labs, “an urban innovation company devoted to improving city life for residents, businesses, and city governments, in particular by developing and incubating civic technologies.”

Sidewalk Labs, realizing that parking and transportation was a major opportunity, shortly spawned separate venture Flow to focus on just that. Described as “a transportation coordination platform that uses analytics and messaging to help cities work with citizens to increase the efficiency of road, parking, and transit use, improving access to mobility for all,” Flow was announced in a joint call in May 2016 with Sidewalk Labs CEO Doctoroff and Anthony Foxx, President Obama’s secretary of transportation.

Originally described as a platform and joint venture with the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), Flow’s website says it is a Sidewalk Labs and Alphabet, Inc. company. (Alphabet is the holding company Google set up in 2015 in recognition, in part, that it had grown far beyond its search engine roots.) Announced originally as a feature of USDOT’s Smart City competition and offered for free to competition winner Columbus, Ohio, Sidewalk Labs expects to refine Flow through work with an additional 16 Smart City finalists in a collaboration with the transportation advocacy group Transportation For America (T4A). Those 16 cities include Austin, Texas; Boston, Mass.; Denver, Colo.; Los Angeles, Calif.; Nashville, Tenn.; Miami, Fla.; Seattle, Wash.; and Washington, D.C., which join Sidewalk’s ongoing collaboration with New York City, N.Y. Flow’s website shows how important parking is in

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this product’s future; parking is mentioned seven times on its home page at press time. Flow even explicitly seeks the participation of parking operators to join its pilot. (How many people outside the parking and real estate industries even know there is such a thing as a parking operator?)

Flow will help build more sustainable cities “from the internet up,” explained Doctoroff in a talk at the USDOT’s Volpe Center last fall.

He predicted that aggregated, anonymized travel data would open up parking garages and lots at churches, office buildings, sports arenas, and elsewhere in a virtual supply of shared parking and would offer the choice of ride hailing and public transit services. The payoff for cities, he explained, would be cheaper development costs, lower rents for commercial and residential space, more small business, more mixed use, and less car dependency.

So we have Google working with USDOT, 17 cities, and T4A to build a tool harnessing the power of data to solve our parking problems and create more livable cities. Of the issues Sidewalk Labs could focus on to improve city life, why parking?

Sidewalk likely sees two overlapping opportunities: Urban parking supply is scattered and disorganized; it cries out to be inventoried and made easily available.

Secondly, unlike many public services, parking already has a revenue stream attached to it. There’s money to be made in more efficiently connecting the parker with the parking space.

Will Google’s Sidewalk Labs realize its vision of more sustainable, efficient mobility? Anyone familiar with parking knows the opportunity as well as the challenge here. Parking really is the wild, Wild West of urban real estate. Let’s see if Google can tame it. In any event, the 800-pound gorilla is worth keeping an eye on.

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mbedding sustainability in the everyday practices of parking and transportation will result in more people being more mobile while using less resources to do so.

Because we can’t manage what we don’t measure, we will increasingly track our sustainable mobility performance through a merging of data streams from garages, cars, smartphones, employers, and individuals. The race is on to produce the aggregation and analysis of all that data and then reporting it back to us.

Wish you could predict the future?

Join the conversation at booth #1021.

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CONNECTING THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

By Bill Smith, APR

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’m not on SnapFace and all that. … I’m really just worried about getting our team ready to go. I’m not too worried about what they put on InstantChat.”

When Bill Belichick made these comments in January, they elicited more than a few chuckles. The media got a kick out of this old guy mangling the names of some of the more prominent social media platforms. While the coach was obviously going for laughs, his comments hit home for marketing professionals who are trying to help their organizations and clients create and implement successful social marketing programs.

When it comes to using social media, many organizations struggle. That’s certainly the case for many parking organizations. The problem isn’t that social media doesn’t lend itself to promoting parking; it’s that many parking organizations don’t know how to use it properly.

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BILL SMITH, APR, is principal of SmithPhillips Strategic Communications and contributing editor of The Parking Professional. He can be reached at bsmith@smith-phillips. com or 603.491.4280.

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Parking lends itself perfectly to the visual and ­content-centered nature of the current social media marketing landscape. Many of the most effective tools, such as Facebook and Instagram, offer perfect opportunities to upload photos that demonstrate your organizational values and the stories that will engage new audiences.

Many parking organizations, including facility designers and technology providers, can use these platforms to showcase their work.

I recently had the opportunity to speak with social media guru Abbie McGilvery, the founder of From The Nest, a social media consulting firm that helps organizations integrate social media into their marketing programs. She says marketing managers—particularly those who have been at it a long time—often have trouble bridging the gap between the “traditional marketing techniques and the new marketing reality.”

She believes organizations that ask their established marketing leaders to design and implement a social media strategy are making a mistake, and they shouldn’t task personal assistants, receptionists, or junior marketers with social media. Instead, they should empower their marketers to bring in people with social media experience who can integrate social media programs into the organization’s existing marketing.

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—New England Patriots Coach Bill Belichick revolve around developing strategies for telling stories that will resonate with target audiences.

“Remember that the first word in social media is ‘social,’” continues McGilvery. “Your program needs to focus on being social, telling stories about your firm, your people, and why they matter. For many organizations this can be scary.”

Don’t talk just about how you do parking; talk about the issues that everyone else in the industry is talking about, and find ways to bring the conversation back to your organization. An effective social media strategy will help you make your organization more relevant to the industry.

Of course, as important as strategy is, it’s also important to understand which social media tactics will be the most effective. “You don’t want to post on Instagram at 7:30 in the morning,” says McGilvery. “That’s when people are sitting down with their morning coffee and reading the paper, going through their emails, or catching up with friends on Facebook. However, that can be the perfect time to post on Facebook or LinkedIn.” Don’t forget to connect with IPI on social, either—@IPIParking on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and search International Parking Institute on LinkedIn. She says social media managers should embrace learning how to use Google Drive, an essential, low-cost content management tool that allows you to store and organize your content and makes it accessible from any device. She also recommends Hootsuite, a content distribution tool that lets you schedule and organize your own content and distribute it throughout all of your social media channels, making it easier for you to be sure that the right content goes out on the right channel at the right time.

“Social media marketing is all about psychology,” McGilvery says. “It’s about knowing the needs and desires of your audience and knowing how and where to reach them. When you know how to authentically connect with and entertain your audiences, it’s easy to build a strategy to reach them and make a lasting impression through social media.”

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FINANCIAL MATTERS

UNDERSTANDING SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE INVESTING

By Mark A. Vergenes

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nvesting with an eye toward promoting social, political, or environmental concerns (or at least not supporting activities you feel are harmful) doesn’t mean you have to forgo pursuing a return on your money. Socially responsible investing may allow you to further both your own economic interests and a greater good in whatever way you define that term.

By monitoring your investments’ performance and being prepared to look elsewhere if they don’t continue to meet your needs, you increase your chances of selecting appropriate choices. Here are some tips to help you evaluate investments through the lens of social responsibility:

Impact investments are often made directly in an individual company or organization and may involve direct mentoring of its leaders. As a result, such unique investments may be more similar to venture capital and private equity (where the concept of impact investing originated) and may not be highly correlated with traditional assets such as stocks or bonds.

Screening Potential Investments Evaluating investments based not only on their finances but on social, environmental, and even corporate governance practices is a common approach. Screens based on specific guidelines may eliminate socially unacceptable investments. Socially responsible funds often exclude companies involved with alcohol, tobacco, gambling, or defense. Funds might avoid companies that contribute to environmental pollution or that have significant interests in countries considered to have repressive or racist governments.

You can also employ positive screens to identify companies whose practices actively further a particular social good, such as protecting the environment or following a particular set of religious beliefs.

Community Investing Another approach involves directing investment capital to communities, projects, and nonprofits that may have difficulty getting traditional financing. Investors support organizations that help traditionally underserved populations with challenges, such as gaining access to affordable housing, finding jobs, and receiving health care.

Community investing often helps not only individuals but small businesses that may operate in geographic areas mainstream financial institutions deem too risky.

MARK A. VERGENES is president of MIRUS Financial Partners and chair of the Lancaster (Pa.) Parking Authority.

He can be reached at mark@mirusfinancial partners.com.

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Impact Investing Impact investing focuses on measuring and managing performance in terms of social benefit as well as investment returns. This type of investing aims to further a social good in ways that maximize the efficient use of resources. In fact, some have made a case for considering impact investing an emerging alternative asset class.

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Wide Net or Targeted Strategy?

One of the key questions for anyone interested in socially responsible investing is whether to invest broadly or concentrate on a specific issue or area. A narrow focus could leave you overly exposed to the risks of a single industry or company, while greater diversification could weaken the effect you might like your money to have.

A broad scope can make it difficult to choose among the myriad investment opportunities, especially if you don’t have expertise about a particular field or the time or energy to acquire it. However, unless you’re familiar with the science behind a specific company’s product or service, you might benefit from casting a wider net.

Though diversification and asset allocation can’t guarantee a profit or eliminate the possibility of loss, they can help you manage the amount of risk you may face from a single source.

If you don’t have the time to do detailed research or don’t trust your own judgment, you could work with an adviser who may have access to more information about your area of interest.

MIRUS Financial Partners, nor Cetera Advisor Networks LLC, give tax or legal advice. Opinions expressed are not intended as investment advice and may not be relied on for the purpose of determining your social security benefits, eligibility, or avoiding any federal tax penalties. All information is believed to be from reliable sources; however, we make no representations as to its completeness or accuracy. All economic and performance information is historical and indicative of future results.

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By L. Dennis Burns, CAPP

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s reported in edition 104 of the Mobility Lab newsletter, the City of San Francisco is moving forward with groundbreaking transportation demand management (TDM) legislation that requires developers to provide onsite amenities that support sustainable modes of transportation.

The ordinance applies to projects with 10 units or more of new residential development; 10,000 square feet or more of commercial development; and large (25,000 square feet) changes of use. Residential projects that are 100 percent affordable are exempt.

“This is the most progressive transportation demand program in our nation,” says city Board of Supervisors member Malia Cohen. “It will have significant and positive impacts as it accommodates new growth in our city. I commend transportation advocates and our development community for working together to develop a program that will encourage transportation options that are better for the environment, help manage congestion, reduce risks to pedestrians and cyclists, and improve the overall efficiency of our transportation network.”

The Program

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City staff developed a menu of 66 sustainable TDM measures based on best practices across the country, local

research, literature review, and professional expertise.

Each measure on the TDM menu has a different point value based on its relative ability to reduce the number of trips by people driving. Every new development project will be assigned a specific point target that’s calculated by the type of land use and the number of parking spaces the project proposes. Developers will use the TDM menu to choose specific measures that will get their project to its target point requirement. For example, providing showers and lockers as a benefit to commuters who walk or bike counts for one point, providing car-share membership and onsite car-share ranges from one to five points, and reducing the amount of onsite parking carries up to 11 points. Measures were assigned points based on relative efficacy in reducing vehicle miles traveled from site residents, tenants, and/or visitors. A user-friendly online tool (sftdmtool.org) will help developers calculate their project’s required points and identify ways to meet the points requirement though different TDM measures.

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Applicable TDM measures include: Active transportation measures that encourage trips made by walking or cycling. ●● Car-share parking and memberships. ●● Providing delivery services and facilitating deliveries. ●● Family-supportive amenities. ●● High-occupancy vehicles. ●● Education and outreach efforts. ●● Land use diversity and affordability. ●● Parking management. ●●

The Transportation Sustainability Program The TDM program elements represents the shift component of the transportation sustainability program (TSP), a three-part citywide policy initiative to help transportation keep pace with growth in the city. TSP is a joint effort by the mayor’s office, the San Francisco Planning Department, the San Francisco County Transportation Authority, and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. It is designed to improve and expand the transportation system to help accommodate new growth and create a policy framework for private development to contribute to minimizing its effect on the transportation system, including helping pay for the system’s enhancement and expansion.

The recent approval completes the third and final component of the initiative. The other two elements are: ●● Invest: The Transportation Sustainability Fee (TSF).

In November 2015, the board of supervisors adopted a transportation sustainability fee, replacing the transportation impact development fee, to provide additional revenue from new development to help fund improvements to transit capacity and reliability along with bicycle and pedestrian improvements. The fee is projected to add about $14 million a year, raising nearly $1.2 billion for transportation improvements over 30 years. Considering the revenue that would have been generated by the transportation impact development fee, the TSF will result in roughly $430 million in net new revenue during this period. ●● Align: Modernize Environmental Review. In March 2016, the planning commission replaced level of service (LOS) analysis, with transportation analysis that looks at vehicle miles traveled. Instead of counting car throughputs at already-congested intersections, the city is evaluating the more meaningful metric of how much new driving a project generates. This is consistent with state policy and a better standard of environmental review.

Cheers to San Francisco. Read more about this at bit.ly/SanFranTDM.

L. DENNIS BURNS, CAPP, is regional vice president with Kimley-Horn. He can be reached at dennis. burns@kimley-horn. com.

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IPI’S ASK THE EXPERTS

Vanessa Cummings, CAPP, MDiv Supervisor, Parking Operations Columbus State Community College Attend the first-timers’ welcome, and partner with someone who has attended before to help you navigate the Conference. Make it a point to meet new people, hand out business cards, and exchange ideas. This is one of the best networking opportunities you will find.

Frank Giles Area Manager

Lanier Parking Solutions When visiting the booths or when networking, always take a business card and jot something on the back to remember the person and the conversation. This works wonders for later contact. Also, don’t forget your own business cards. Have fun!

Rick Decker, CAPP Manager, Parking Operations

Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport Schedule a breakfast meeting each day with someone you can only meet at the Conference.

This gets you up and going strong both physically and mentally so you’re ready to charge into the productive day ahead!

Victor Hill, CAPP

Director of Parking and Transportation Services University of WisconsinLa Crosse Pay attention to nametags.

Look for mentors, CAPPs, and committee members.

We want to meet you and help you get your bearings. I had so much help at my first Conference that I’m happy to pay it forward.

Vanessa Solesbee Practice Builder Kimley-Horn Make a conscious decision to “show up.” We all have distractions—family, work, social commitments—that are constantly pulling us in different directions. Attending IPI for the first time is an important investment in your professional development so make sure to show up, be present, and make yourself a priority.

Have a question for IPI’s experts? Send it to fernandez@parking.org and watch this space for answers.

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The opinions, beliefs, and thoughts expressed by the contributors do not necessarily reflect the opinions and viewpoints of the International Parking Institute or official policies of IPI.

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IPI Jazzes Up NEW ORLEANS Your complete guide to the 2017 IPI Conference & Expo

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AISSEZ LES BON TEMPS ROULEZ! The 2017 IPI Conference & Expo is almost here, and thousands of parking professionals

from all around the world will spend their days learning, networking, exploring, sharing information, and letting the good times roll in New Orleans, La. It’s the biggest and best show in the parking industry, and it’s going to be chock-full of exhibits, chances to meet and mingle with new and old friends, the top professional development in the business, and lots of fun.

Have you registered yet? Need some more information? Ready to start planning your time in the Big Easy? Read on …

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of stress, and tools to avoid or process it and let it go for a productive outcome.

Planning, Design, & Construction will highlight how to use a limited-cost data base on the maintenance and repair of parking structures, including identifying trends of maintenance and repair costs throughout the service life of a structure (50–75 years!). Review considerations to evaluate and address short- and long-term parking planning to ensure an adaptive solution that will incorporate and integrate with the ongoing evolution of parking technology. Learn how to employ a collaborative planning, design, and construction effort. ●●

IPI is known as the parking and transportation industry’s leader in education and professional development and the 2017 IPI Conference is a great opportunity to fill your days with learning. From general sessions unlike any others to TECHTalks to Shoptalks to 50 education sessions in five themed tracks for everyone from the new frontline worker to the seasoned CEO, there’s lots to learn and discuss in New Orleans.

This year’s education sessions are organized into five tracks of learning— specialize in one or two or mix it up for a broad spectrum of professional development: Finance & Auditing will demonstrate how key performance indicators (KPIs) can better help define our industry and benchmark your program.

Explore benefits of the negotiation process and project scope changes. Examine various financial models and scenarios. ●●

Mobility & Alternative Transportation will analyze how on-demand technology such as Uber and Lyft has stunned the taxi industry while simultaneously enjoying triple and quadruple growth in many cities. What effect will it have on parking? Learn about how a redevelopment led to an increase in revenue of more than 29 percent, greater turnover in parking spaces, access to visitor parking, and increased customer satisfaction for one city, and examine mobility shifts between campuses and communities at large. ●●

Personal Development will offer insights into strategies to ensure you’re being your most effective self through managing self-talk and picking the words that best reflect your thoughts. Learn practical steps to use effective leadership skills that promote high levels of employee engagement and productivity. Discuss ways to recognize the onset of stress, the sources and causes ●●

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Technology & Innovation will illustrate how recent advances in transportation technology provide actionable information to improve customer satisfaction and create operational efficiencies. We hear and see the buzzwords: automated, self-driving, driverless, connected vehicles.

Learn how the advent of the internet of things (IoT) is progressively reshaping parking thanks to an intelligent network of connected devices. Do you collect a lot of data? Learn how to benefit with the right benchmarking tools.

The learning doesn’t stop in the education hallway. Catch a TECHTalk on the Expo floor—these 45-minute presentations emphasize technology, how it’s changing the industry, and how it best fits in your operation.

And don’t miss this year’s Shoptalks— segment-specific roundtable discussions designed for optimal networking and solution-sharing with your peers from around the world.

Attendees won’t want to miss this year’s general sessions, with entertaining, informative experiences guaranteed to give you plenty of food for thought. These kick off Monday, May 22, with an expert panel discussion on the fate of parking, transportation, and mobility. They’re the questions everyone’s asking as they plan for future success, and we’ve got the top experts and visionaries ●●

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to answer. Learn how the parking industry can not only keep up with rapid and tremendous change but evolve and transform to support new technologies and a new infrastructure—and new customers—that are on the horizon.

Tuesday, it’s the Parking Solutions Competition, and you won’t want to miss it! We challenged the best and the brightest to answer one of the biggest questions we need to answer as an industry: Find an innovative new way to reduce the use of single-occupant vehicles and maximize land use, increase mobility options, and decrease congestion, emissions, and pollution through parking solutions. College students responded to this design and development parking challenge to express their rendition of the next big idea in parking based on real-world scenarios. See our winners present their ideas and get your own wheels turning.

Wednesday, IPI honors the best of the best with this year’s Awards of Excellence, Professional Recognition Program awards, Parking Matters® Marketing & Communications Awards, and CAPP graduation ceremonies. Congratulate and celebrate your peers and see the ideas, practices, and habits that make them the cream of the crop.

See It, Touch It, Try It With more than 17,000 square feet of exhibit space, the 2017 IPI Expo is the very best place to see, touch, and try new products, technologies, and services to make your parking operation the best it can be. No matter what you’re looking for, chances are it’ll be on the show floor, along with the industry’s top experts to help you make the most of everything you find—all you have to do is say “hi” to get the conversation started.

IPI’s Green Star exhibitors will be clearly marked and easy to find—these are companies that offer sustainable products and services to help you go green.

With more than 12 hours of Expo time, you’re sure to find exactly what you need. See p. 34 for a complete listing (as of press time) of this year’s exhibitors.

Networking, Networking, Networking!

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You’ll have loads of opportunities to make new parking-­ industry connections as you take in education sessions, walk the Expo, and enjoy free time in the city, but IPI also offers some more concrete chances to meet people and connect: Opening Welcome Event: Mardi Gras Madness: You surely don’t want to miss our kick-off evening event that brings New Orleans up close and personal. ●●

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New Orleans was founded as a riverfront trading camp in 1718. In its first incarnation as a real city, New Orleans occupied what’s now the French Quarter. l The

city has served as the capital of Louisiana twice: once at the colony’s founding and again in 1864.

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first skyscraper in New Orleans was built in 1807. The four-story structure still stands at the corner of Royal and St. Peters streets. l

Louisiana Governor William Clairborne offered a $500 reward for the capture of pirate Jean Lafitte, who operated out of a New Orleans warehouse. The pirate then offered $1,500 for the capture of Clairborne.

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official colors of Mardi Gras were chosen in 1872: purple for justice, green for faith, and gold for power. l The

Mercedes-Benz Superdome, home to the New Orleans Saints, is the largest fixed-dome structure in the world, with a diameter of 680 feet and a 9.7-acre roof.

Each seat is a different color than the one next to it, providing an illusion of a full house even when some seats are empty.

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New Orleans has more miles of canals than Venice, Italy.

OLA is the birthplace of many N celebrities, including Reese Witherspoon; John Larroquette, Louis Armstrong (who grew up in a city orphanage); Harry Connick Jr.; Anne Rice; Truman Capote; Archie, Eli, and Payton Manning; and Cokie Roberts. Current full- and part-time residents include Brad Pitt, Sandra Bullock, Drew Brees, John Goodman, and Nicholas Cage. l

Sources: e xperienceneworleans.com; superdome.s3.amazonaws.com/doc/presskit.pdf; myneworleans.com

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Big ideas about parking and reducing singleoccupancy vehicles are headed your way at the parking industry’s most exciting event of the year! Featuring student entries from around the globe, our contestants will wow you with their innovative solutions and ultramodern ideas. Innovators of the four most groundbreaking concepts were invited to compete onstage at this exciting event for the cash prize, membership to IPI, and a feature in The Parking Professional.

Directed by IPI Board of Directors Chair Kim Jackson, CAPP, the program engages university students with the best experts in parking while revitalizing the industry with promising forward thinkers that are destined to become the parking professionals of the future.

The competition will be judged by a panel of parking experts from a range of disciplines and experience: • Adam Blake, president, T2.

• Mike Drow, CAPP, consultant.

• Kim Jackson, CAPP, director, transportation and parking services, Princeton University.

• Mark Lyons, CAPP, parking division general manager, City of Sarasota, Fla. • Diego Torres Palma, MBA, vice president of growth, Smarking.

Join us to cheer on our young contestants and give them a warm welcome into the wonderful world of parking! For more information, visit parking.org/parkingsolutions.

Networking Adventure Activities: These include a volunteering opportunity with HandsOn New Orleans, a city-wide scavenger hunt a la “The Amazing Race;” a cultural tour of the city; a New Orleans culinary experience; swamp tour, garden tour, and the Voigt CAPP Classic Golf Tournament. These opportunities may sell out—register early. ●●

Evening Networking Events: You’ve got a free evening and you’re not sure what to do. Why sit in your hotel ●●

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room or at the hotel bar? Get out and connect with other attendees in a more organized fashion where you can explore New Orleans and solidify connections.

Airport: featuring the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. ❯❯

Facility Tours: As the face of the industry is changing, “parking” is bridging the gap between transportation operations. Join us for one of the following tours that are available: ●●

Municipal: featuring downtown New Orleans and SP+.

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University/Medical Center Tour: Tulane Medical Center, LSU Health Sciences Center, and Tulane Uptown Campus. ❯❯

Come Early Several pre-Conference programs make it worth your while to come to New Orleans early: ●● UVA Business Management, four-day CAPP points course (22 CAPP points; 2.2 CEUs), open to all. ●● Parking Immersion and Operations, three-day CAPP points course (17 CAPP points; 1.7 CEUs), open to all. ●● Parksmart Advisor Training, one-day course (7 CAPP points; .07 CEUs). ●● APO Site Reviewer Training, one-day course (7 CAPP points; .07 CEUs). ●● Media Interview Coaching, one-day workshop (6 CAPP points).

Take advantage of this in-depth training to maximize your experience and catapult your organization and your career.

We can’t wait to see our parking, transportation, and mobility friends in New Orleans next month. If you’ve not yet registered or secured your IPI blockrate hotel room, don’t wait—things are filling up. Visit IPIConference.parking.org for more information and get ready to jazz up the Big Easy!

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nnovation is the order of the day in parking, and while innovation can be found in every corner of the

industry, it’s particularly prevalent when it comes to technology. A group of Bryant University students is staking their claim as parking technology innovators of the future for a creative new product they invented as part of a class project.

College students develop a kinetic speed bump with a perfect real-world application: parking.

By Bill Smith, APR

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Bryant University is a private university located in Smithfield, R.I. For those who grew up in New England, it’s best known as the former home of the New England Patriots’ training camp. The Patriots stopped training there after the 2001 season, and today the university is best known for its college of business.

The Idea The Bryant students last semester developed a speed bump Students Angelina Leandres and that generates energy as cars Noah Pease led the team that go over it, ideally to power a developed the kinetic speed bump. parking garage. How and why did they do it? The process started when professor Mark Vozella assigned students in his global foundations of organization and business class the task of creating a company.

After that, the company was to develop a product, business plan, and marketing plan. Five students—Angelina Leandres, Sean Cappellini, David Meikle, Jake Fontes, and Noah Pease—decided to focus their efforts on piezoelectricity, the electric charge that accumulates in certain solid materials when pressure is applied.

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The Theory Behind It The concept of piezoelectricity dates back to 1880, when the effect was discovered by Jacques and Pierre Curie. The Curies found that if they applied pressure to a quartz crystal, they could create an electric charge in that crystal. The crystal essentially becomes a tiny battery with a positive charge on one face and a negative charge on the opposite face. By connecting the two faces together, it’s possible to make a circuit, causing current to flow.

During the subsequent 137 years, scientists have found that there are many materials in addition to quartz that can be used to produce piezoelectricity and thus can be considered piezoelectric crystal. Naturally occurring crystals, including quartz, berlinite, sucrose, topaz, and lead titanate, are among the many substances that can be used in the process, as are silk, enamel, dentin, and even wood. There are also a number of synthetically produced crystals that can be used.

The students were interested in utilizing piezoelectricity because it provided an opportunity to promote sustainability through their company and the product they were developing. The immediate challenge they faced was finding the right application. While most of us may be unfamiliar with the term, many products we use every day use piezoelectricity in their operations.

Products as varied as cell phones, grill igniters, printers—even musical greeting cards—use piezoelectricity to run. And that was the group’s initial challenge: Every idea they came up with had already been done.

And of course it takes a lot of pressure to produce piezoelectricity. As a result, not all of the ideas the students came up with were workable. For instance, one early idea involved the placement of special piezo plates in highly populated areas with many pedestrians.

However, they soon determined that pedestrian traffic couldn’t produce the necessary pressure to create piezoelectricity.

As cars drive over the Energy Bump, the weight of each vehicle creates piezoelectricity, and the energy created is then converted to electricity to power the lights and manage the management systems of the garage or parking lot.

Finding the Answer

The Bryan University team won $1,000 in a marketing plan competition for their design of an energy-producing speed bump for parking lots and garages.

Here’s how it works: When piezoelectric crystal is squeezed or stretched, the structure of the crystal becomes deformed, pushing atoms throughout the structure, upsetting the balance of the positive and negative, and causing electrical charges. The process is simple and has been adopted by numerous industrial processes.

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After a great deal of brainstorming, the team hit upon a solution that they were certain hadn’t yet been explored: parking. After all, to create a useful amount of electricity you need to create a lot of pressure, and the team recognized that moving vehicles could be a terrific source of constant pressure. And that’s how the idea they christened the Energy Bump came about. Once they had their idea for a product, they needed a company to design and create it. Thus was born Project PET, which stands for pressure, energy, and technology.

The first step in creating the Energy Bump was meeting with a professor in the university’s science department to better understand the mechanics of the process and learn how to apply them to their idea. The concept of the Energy Bump revolved around the installation of piezo film sheets on speed bumps located in parking facilities.

Early in the development process, the team established two primary criteria that needed to be met by the Energy Bump: It needed an appealing design, and it needed to possess the correct mechanics for functionality.

Final Appearance

Behind the Scenes

The final design of the students’ proposed green and purple speed bump, and below, the locations of the piezo film sheets that generate electricity when cars drive over the bumps.

To make the product more appealing, the team settled on a lime green and purple design rather than the more traditional yellow and black color scheme that is common on roadways and in parking facilities. The unique color scheme was also chosen as a safety feature—the bright colors are highly visible. The final touch was applied by imprinting the Project PET logo on each speed bump in a highly visible design and location.

The Energy Bump is six feet long, 12.25 inches wide, and 2.25 inches high. Each bump is covered in 18 piezoelectric sheets, with nine sheets placed on each side of the speed bump. The sheets are strategically located to maximize contact with the tires of vehicles driving in the parking facility. As cars drive over the Energy Bump, the weight of each vehicle creates piezoelectricity, and the energy created is then converted to electricity to power the lights and manage the management systems of the garage or parking lot.

The Money Side As with many of today’s parking technology innovations, the Project PET team anticipates that the Energy Bump will provide a rapid return on investment. Even though the team hasn’t put the product into production, for the purpose of the school project the students established a per-unit price of $3,499. The price was set to provide a reasonable return over manufacturing costs.

Ultimately, the students are confident that the product can save parking owners and operators tens of thousands of dollars each year, providing a very quick return on parking.org/tpp

their investment. Furthermore, the Energy Bump’s cost is far lower than other more common renewable energy sources. For instance, a 5-kilowatt solar panel system costs between $25,000 and $30,000, and a large utility scale wind turbine can cost anywhere from $1 million to $3 million. When comparing the installation of solar panels and wind turbines to the installation costs of the Energy Bump, piezoelectricity should be able to provide sustainable energy at a much lower cost.

Project PET’s Future Even though the Energy Bump was created as part of a college assignment, the Project PET team believes their idea could provide important benefits to parking owners and operators and to society as a whole. At a time when sustainable energy is more attractive than ever, the Energy Bump can create truly renewable energy, with very little maintenance required, for a relatively minor investment.

Likewise, owners and operators can enjoy significant benefits by dramatically lowering their annual energy costs. When you consider the important role that electricity plays in parking facilities, particularly the safety and management roles that lighting plays, it’s easy to imagine how important having a constant source of cheap renewable energy could be for owners and operators.

Ultimately, the students would like to bring their vision to market. They think that their innovation could have an important place in the industry, and they would like to take their class project and put it into production.

BILL SMITH, APR, is principal of SmithPhillips Strategic Communications and contributing editor of The Parking Professional. He can be reached at bsmith@smith-phillips. com or 603.491.4280.

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CASE STUDY

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FUTURE LEADERS How one company structures its internship and development programs to produce top-notch future employees and give students invaluable real-world experience.

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EAR FUTURE PARKING PROFESSIONAL: Whether it’s your first internship

or third, finding a company to work for during your summer break or even while you are taking classes can be a daunting task. Ideally, you want to work for a company that will allow you to learn as much as possible about your industry rather than limiting you to one aspect or department. Post-graduation, you may also be looking for a professional development program or apprenticeship that can give you an opportunity to work for a company during a six-month period as a way to test the waters or get your foot in the door.

Getting Started The first step for students seeking an internship is to research companies they want to work for and compile a wish list of skills they want to obtain. Most companies will include information about their philosophy, unique value proposition, and case studies about past projects or press releases announcing new projects won. Social media is also an excellent way to gain insight into a company’s culture. For example, a company may post information about projects under construction on its LinkedIn page or post pictures of employee events or community service projects on Facebook. Doing some due diligence to look into a company’s culture is a great way to prepare for an interview.

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In addition, personal references are important. If you can find students who have previously done internships at the company of your choice, you can ask them about the type of work they got to do and whether they were able to add any of the project work to their portfolio.

(Fetching coffee and being stuck in the copy room are not going to help you build your portfolio!)

Another important factor to consider is compensation.

Some companies offer a stipend, which is payment for the duration of an internship. Others will pay on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. This is important to know up front.

Geographic location and desirability, as well as knowing where you will live and how you will get to your internship, are also high on the priority list. If you

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choose to do an internship outside of your hometown or your college town, it is important to take these factors into consideration.

Real-World Experience Our company offers internships for college students along with a professional development program (PDP). Our PDP offers a unique opportunity for qualified candidates with degrees in civil/structural engineering, architecture, and building construction among many areas of interest. The program includes hands-on training in design, estimating, drafting, architecture, engineering, manufacturing, quality control, construction, and project management.

We typically seek out college students majoring in engineering design (civil/structural or industrial), architecture design, manufacturing processes, construction management (design-build or project management) software development, and marketing. When evaluating candidates for our PDP and internship programs, we generally look for open-minded, objective-thinking individuals with an entrepreneurial spirit. We are particularly interested in people who have an inquisitive mindset, an entrepreneurial spirit, and a drive to succeed.

FINFROCK’s full PDP typically lasts between 18 and 24 months. During this period, participants are

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full-time employees given the opportunity to develop a comprehensive toolkit to prepare for future leadership positions in business and technical areas. Program participants perform rotational assignments, collaborate on company-wide projects, receive specialized leadership and technical training, attend in-house training programs, and are encouraged to complete higher levels of education and licensure or certification when applicable.

Our internship program provides the same cross-­ departmental training opportunities for college students on an abbreviated three-month basis. During this period, the intern will typically work in two departments and gain skills and hands-on experience in our design-­ manufacture-construct process.

A Holistic View Everyone in our company has an understanding of the many roles that go into a project, and we communicate well cross-departmentally to deliver the best end result.

The PDP fosters a sense of camaraderie and teamwork focused on the greater good of every project. The camaraderie also expedites the project delivery process by preventing problems downstream. For example, an architect who has firsthand knowledge of the challenges faced by engineers and manufacturers can apply that

YOU SHOULD APPROACH AN INTERNSHIP OR POST-GRADUATE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM WITH THE SAME VIGOR YOU WOULD WHEN APPLYING FOR YOUR FIRST FULL-TIME JOB.

knowledge to his or her design. He or she can actually anticipate how that design will work in the building construction stage and how it will affect the performance of the people who are in the field assembling the building.

Many of our internship participants have been hired as full-time employees. Travis Henriques is an internship and PDP graduate who came to us with an engineering background from the University of Central Florida. He tells me, “The PDP at FINFROCK helped me bridge the gap between what I was learning in school and what I needed to know for real-world applications. I was able to get firsthand experience in precast concrete manufacturing, drafting, and design.”

Emily Jones went through the program and is now employed with FINFROCK as the architectural manager.

Being a PDP allowed her to gain valuable insight into the everyday activities of the departments that make up Finfrock outside the field of architecture. “It allowed me to be able to make connections between all steps: from the initial design and cost in project development, to the engineering and coordinating behind each precast piece, to the actual building of the structure while on the erection crew to closing out the project through the construction department,” she says. “The PDP process opened my eyes up to the elaborate coordination that must go on between all departments in order to complete a project. The field and office knowledge I have gained throughout my rotations in different departments at FINFROCK will help with future projects as I advance toward becoming an architect.”

Steps toward Leadership Other PDP participants—including me—have not only stayed on in full-time positions but advanced to executive leadership positions. I came to the company in January 2004 as a graduating senior from Penn State University with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering.

I thought I was well-prepared to begin my career in the construction industry, but once I landed on the company campus, I quickly realized that there was much hands-on learning to be done. On day one, I put on my hard hat and safety vest, rolled up my sleeves, and got to work in the manufacturing department. For the next three months, I learned as much as possible about how we manufacture our precast concrete product. From there, I began working in the construction department. parking.org/tpp

For the next nine months, I got my hands (and boots) dirty working on an office building project in the Orlando area and then managed a parking garage as the jobsite superintendent in South Florida.

After one year of being with the company, I hadn’t been in the office yet, but I had been given a unique opportunity to learn in a new type of classroom—one without walls and without boundaries. The PDP essentially gave me a holistic view of our business and one that would yield long-term benefits for me and for the company.

Following my PDP experience, I continued to learn by working in the engineering department as a precast drafter, design engineer, and project engineer. Each of these roles solidified my comprehensive understanding of how our company works.

Thirteen years later, as executive vice president of design, I oversee a department of more than 60 employees that work for me directly or indirectly under a manager. Most of our executives have experienced some portion of the PDP. This training program allows young professionals to experience more than just their field of study.

Final Things to Consider After you have done your initial research and compiled your wish list of companies you want to pursue, it is important to understand how to market yourself as a good candidate. If you are pursuing an internship for the first time, you will want to demonstrate initiative by learning about the company prior to an interview. You will also want to bring an enthusiastic attitude as well as references from your college professors to the interview.

For those who have an internship already under their belt, show and tell will be as important as a great attitude and stellar grades. Be sure to build a great portfolio with examples of your experiences that include renderings, pictures of project sites, examples of marketing materials, and a written reference from your supervisor describing the skills you gained during your internship, an example of a stellar project you contributed to, and your proven ability to be a team player.

In essence, you should approach an internship or post-graduate professional development program with the same vigor you would when applying for your first full-time job.

LLOYD KENNEDY, PE, is executive vice president of design at FINFROCK. He can be reached at lkennedy@ finfrock.com.

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The 2017 IPI Expo comes to New Orleans. here’s no exhibition like the annual IPI Expo, and this year’s is better than ever, with suppliers and experts sharing ideas, new technologies, products, and services in a hands-on way. Talk about, touch, and try

the things that will change the way you do business for the better!

This listing is current as of press time and designed to help you navigate and plan for your time at the Expo. For more information, visit IPIConference.parking.org or download the IPI Conference & Expo app—search the App Store.

Companies with logos are IPI’s Strategic Partners.

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3C Payment

Alpha Technologies

AssetWorks

Booth #503 Parking focused integrated card processing solutions for both card-present and card-notpresent environments. End-to-End Encryption, tokenization, EMV, PCI-DSS scope reduction, and more with full range of centralized back-office tools and functionalities. Solutions for off-street, P&D, valet, pay-by-phone recurring monthly fees, ecommerce for website reservations / permits / monthly fees / citations.

For more information contact: Bill Lewis Sr. Sales Manager North America, 3C Payment USA Corp., bill.lewis@3CPayment.com, Tel: +1.630.282.1204

Booth #605 Alpha Technologies designs and manufactures power solutions for parking, security, traffic monitoring, communications and data networks worldwide, including UPSs, surge suppressors, off-grid and grid-tied solar, mobile/ self-contained power solutions, enclosures, batteries, and services including design, installation and repair.

Booth #706 AssetWorks focuses on software solutions for the public sector including parking management software. Stop by our booth for the latest information on our current BOSSCARS parking management software for higher education, as well as to learn about what we have in the works for next generation parking solutions.

AssetWorks also specializes in facility management software.

AeroVironment Booth #809 The AeroVironment story began in the air; early on we also understood the impact our energy technologies could have on the ground—leading to our role in the development of the GM Impact, the prototype for the world’s first commercially produced electric vehicle. Since then, our EV test systems and charging solutions have fast become the intelligent choice for electric vehicle manufacturers, fleet managers and drivers, paving the way for a cleaner, more sustainable world.

Aiphone Corporation Booth #1221 Aiphone Corporation is the world’s largest intercom manufacturer. Our products range from simple audio-only door answering intercoms to enterprise level systems. We cover everything from buildings to parking garages to emergency stations posted throughout a campus. Aiphone is the first and only intercom manufacturer to win the coveted Deming Prize, as well as ISO 9001, 9002, and 14001 certification.

All Traffic Solutions Booth #601 All Traffic Solutions is consistently recognized as a leading innovator in the traffic safety market for speed displays, message signs, imaging products and intelligent transportation systems, delivering groundbreaking levels of service and product capability. By integrating cloud technology into all of its products, All Traffic Solutions allows customers to manage all their equipment and data remotely, through a browser resulting in better traffic safety outcomes and initiatives related to vehicle-to-infrastructure solutions and smart cities.

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Amano McGann, Inc. Booth #717

American Institute of Steel Construction Booth #1219 Parking garage owners must insist on an indepth review of a steel-framed alternate to compare the cost and availability of material along with the construction schedule of comparable concrete systems. High-performance coating technologies and hot-dip galvanizing offer life expectancies of more than 30 years with minimal maintenance. For more information contact the Steel Solutions Center for a no cost conceptual solution. E-mail them at solutions@aisc.org or call 866.ASK.AISC.

Automated Valet Parking Manager, LLC Booth #907

AWID, Inc. Booth #602 AWID, a Global Provider of Access Control Cards, Tags and Readers for the Parking and Physical Access Control Markets. Our focus is Improving Security while Reducing Risks, Threats and Losses. Our product mix includes Proximity Readers that outperform competitors at lower price points, to Long-Range Readers, that utilize LF and UHF technologies. We have you covered up to 25 FEET! Stop by to see our NEW uAxcess UHF Readers!

Apriva

Ballparc

Booth #1208 Apriva helps parking professionals prepare for EMV and future payment technologies.

Apriva’s Integration Services include pre-built solutions that make it simple to add payment processing to attended, unattended, mobile, recurring, and web environments. Our payment processors support credit, debit, stored value, loyalty, EBT, check, and EMV transactions, as well as emerging alternate forms of payment. For parking payments now and into the future, visit developer.apriva.com.

Booth #1238 Ballparc develops cloud apps for smarter parking management. Visit us to learn more about our industry-leading mobile event parking revenue system or sophisticated enforcement and violation management system.

Bemrose Booth Paragon Limited Booth #710 Bemrose Booth Paragon supply billions of car park and transit tickets worldwide. ‘We are looking forward to the Nashville IPI show, because we want to talk to US parking operators and let them know that our competitors are charging too much for their tickets.

BBP will supply car park tickets & receipts for all major parking equipment including Cale, Parkeon, Amano, Zeag, WPS, Federal APD, 3M, Designa, Skidata and more.

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CALE America, Inc.

CAME Americas Automation, LLC CitySync/TagMaster AB

Booth #1427

Booth #519

Canada Ticket Inc.

Cale has a reputation for being a world leader in unattended payment solutions. The CWT pay station ensures that the payment process is both secure and user-friendly, whether you are paying for parking, a camp site, or entry fee.

The CWT is a successful combination of innovation and proven technology. It has a robust, durable and secure design as well as features such as a video-enabled color screen and contactless credit card payment.

Calpipe Security Bollards Booth #621 Calpipe Security BollardsTM is a division of Calpipe Industries.™ CSB has a full range of safety and high security products ranging from simple industrial products to custom aesthetic designs. All our bollard products are manufactured in our Rancho Dominguez, California facility, including fixed, removable, lighted, and retractable bollards made from carbon or stainless steel.

Cambridge Architectural Mesh Booth #1149 Cambridge Architectural began with an architect’s vision – an insight that perceived woven wire mesh as a unique and beautiful alternative to traditional designs. In 1958, Cambridge International produced a woven metal mesh to clad elevator interiors in the world-renowned Seagram Building in New York City. That first installation has lasted over 60 years, retaining its pristine look and condition. Cambridge provides a variety of fully engineered screening and facade systems for the parking industry.

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Booth #1223 It’s What We Do… Specializing in ticket printing since 1979, Canada Ticket is one of North America’s most diverse specialty printers. Providing you with virtually any style of citation, ticket, tag or label required, our flexibility allows us to customize our products to meet your needs and equipment specifications… rolls, fanfolded, thermal, barcoded, variable-imaging, magnetic-striped, spitter & machine dispensed/readable tickets, flats, stickers, hang-tags, valet tickets and a whole lot more.

Cardinal Tracking, Inc. Booth #1519 Cardinal Tracking, Inc. is a software development company specializing in developing solutions for the Public Safety and Parking industries. With over 400 clients in the United States and Canada, its products are recognized as powerful, innovative, easy to use and backed by Cardinal’s outstanding service and support.

Carl Walker, Inc. Booth #1227 Carl Walker – one of the nation’s longest operating parking consulting firms – specializes in parking structure design, restoration, functional design, and parking planning, operations, and management studies. Carl Walker is staffed with parking consultants, planning specialists, structural engineers, and restoration specialists who provide professional, responsive service and develop creative, feasible and economical solutions to your parking challenges. We focus on all aspects of parking – new design, restoration and parking operations.

CityLift Parking Booth #1035 Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, CityLift Parking marries a real estate developer’s perspective with engineering expertise to create automated parking systems. After installing 53,000 units across 12 countries, our carefully-selected manufacturing partners are best-inclass. We have the expertise to take the space out of parking for almost any type of location or need. CityLift has offices in Oakland, Los Angeles, Miami, and Chicago.

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Booth #1236 TagMaster/CitySync is an application driven technology company manufacturing advanced RFID & ALPR for demanding environments.

Business areas include Traffic Solutions and Rail Solutions providing innovative mobility solutions, sold under the brands TagMaster, CitySync & Balogh, to increase efficiency, security, convenience and to decrease environmental impact within Smart Cities.

CivicSmart, Inc. Booth #819 CivicSmart, Inc. provides innovative technology to the parking industry. Our “Smart City” solutions include handheld citation issuance and enforcement devices, smart parking meters, vehicle detection sensors, electronic permits, and data management systems.

Clancy Systems International Booth #806

Cleverciti Systems GmbH Booth #1036 Cleverciti is an IT company in the Smart City area. Newly developed Cleverciti sensor technology allows cities and parking operators to manage their on-street parking in an intelligent and efficient way. Cleverciti sensors mounted on buildings or lampposts analyze on-street parking spaces and send real-time data about the status (available, occupied) to cities, parking operators or motorists. One sensors can cover up to 100+ parking spaces.

Commend Inc. Booth #533 Commend, the world leader in security communication systems, is renowned for our audio quality, reliability and integration with access control and video systems. Ideal for the parking market, we are unique in offering both hardware and virtual systems. Our systems can be easily networked to multiple sites.

Commend’s intercom stations and PA amplifiers can be installed either on twisted pair, IP or a combination.

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Complus Data Innovations, Inc.

Creditcall

Daktronics, Inc.

Booth #1231 Complus Data Innovations, Inc. (Complus) is a recognized leader in the field of Parking Ticket Management solutions. A full service provider of products and services to over 200 municipalities, universities, and airports Nationwide, Complus offers aa proprietary ticket management software, state-of-the-art hardware including handheld ticket writers, and 24/7 “Signature Service”. Our fully integrated suite services also include onsite training, delinquent noticing, nationwide DMV lookups, TicketView Imaging service, online appeals and secure web-based payment capabilities.

Booth #1042 We provide the tools to enable secure payment acceptance from any device, anywhere.

From retail and hospitality, to parking, transportation or charity applications, our omni-channel Payment Gateway and EMV Kernels are at the very heart of our partners’ businesses, unifying payment transactions made in-store, self-service, online or mobile.

Payment device manufacturers worldwide rely on our contact and contactless EMV Level 1 Libraries and Level 2 Kernels, reducing their project complexity, risk and time.

Booth #920 Daktronics, world leader in LED display technology, engineers long lasting displays to increase parking convenience, efficiency, and revenue by providing way finding, relaying payment instructions, advertising, and more.

Daktronics builds its displays with the highest quality materials for maximum protection, and offers a nationwide customer service network and software integration services. Ideal locations for parking facility displays include outside roadways, entrances, exit plazas, and interior guidance.

Current Components Inc.

Data Ticket, Inc.

Booth #823

Booth #918 Data Ticket, Inc. offers complete Parking Citation Processing, real time CA DMV access as well as out-of-state access and authorized partner with NLET’s. We offer handheld units, a permit application, chalking mechanism and are able to integrate with pay-by-phone and LPR. Data Ticket is nationwide and offers a full suite of services for our Clients to choose from. Data Ticket prides itself on its Client and Customer Service and offers Cutting Edge Technology and Resources!

Conduent Booth #1307

Custom America

Conduent is a leading provider of Intelligent Parking Solutions. We provide Total Parking Management solutions for both on and offstreet parking. We develop, customize and integrate the best-available technologies, and then help cities decide which work best for them. When we combine these technologies with our proven strategies for efficiently managing programs and minimizing risk, it leads directly to powerful results for our municipal customers every time.

CornellCookson Booth #641 Cornell and Cookson, both brands of CornellCookson, Inc. are leading rolling door and grille manufacturers with facilities in Goodyear, AZ, and Mountain Top, PA. Since 1828, the brands that comprise CornellCookson have been developing innovative solutions to meet the needs of the markets served. Cornell and Cookson products can be found in stadiums, distribution facilities, hospitals, hotels and parking garages, along with a variety of other facilities where reliability, security and life safety is vital.

CPI Crane Payment Innovations Booth #401 As the world’s leading provider of money handling technology, Crane Payment Innovations offers the most comprehensive portfolio of cash management solutions in the transport and parking industry. From bank note acceptors and recyclers to a variety of different coin products, customers can be confident that our solutions are robust and efficient, and that they will deliver ROI that makes a big difference to business.

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Booth #1529 CUSTOM AMERICA designs and manufactures a wide range of Ticketing, Printing, and Point-of-Sale solutions. Our wide product portfolio offers robust and innovative solutions to meet today’s parking needs - from entry to exit regardless of parking environment.

CUSTOM AMERICA will feature the PP54 Parking System, a comprehensive solution for ticket management at entry, exit and payment stations. The PP54 is the latest addition to our vast Kiosk Printer line.

CyberLock, Inc. Booth #1217 CyberLock is the technology leader in the key-centric access control system designed to increase security, accountability, and eliminate the need to rekey. Track and control all access activity (authorized and unauthorized) with audit reports to identify and prevent shrinkage.

Wireless access control, daily schedules, and the ability to secure single-spaced meters, multi-pay stations, payment machines, and remote locations make CyberLock a must for the parking industry.

Cyclone Technology Booth #1433 Cyclone Technology’s patented cleaning system provides unrivaled cleaning capabilities on a multitude of surfaces to include anything from concrete to coated. The closed loop cleaning system simultaneously recovers all water and waste without the use of a vacuum leaving the surface virtually dry with no worry of water runoff. Optional recycling capabilities extend operational run times to 5+ hours on a single tank of water. EPA Compliant!

DBK USA, Inc. Booth #935 DBK USA, Inc. offers a full line of industrial thermal management products. We manufacture fan heaters, cartridge heaters, finned heaters, convection heaters, thermoelectric coolers, thermostats and more. Our products have been used in the parking industry for years.

We have rich engineering services to provide our customers with specific design solutions as well as standard product options to choose from. DBK also specializes in positive temperature coefficient technology.

Dero Bike Racks Booth #741 Since 1995, Dero has been supplying innovative bike parking and bicycle transit solutions to architects, contractors, municipalities, higher education, and parks and rec. Our bike racks, public repair stands and pumps, shelters, and lockers are high quality, thoughtfully designed and secure. We manufacture our products inhouse in Minneapolis, MN.

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Designa USA Booth #1533 Welcome to the Future of Parking! DESIGNA is a global leader for parking management solutions. Our integrated hardware peripherals provide cost effective automated controls that maximize vehicular throughput and minimize system downtime. As a global technology leader, our innovative web-enabled software utilizes the latest, most secure cloud technology.

Clients can manage the enterprise software themselves or subscribe to our ASP Model.

Are you ready for the cutting-edge technology of tomorrow? Get it today with Designa!

DESMAN Booth #1525

DoorKing Inc. Booth #1401 Established in 1948, DoorKing has long been recognized as one of the Nation’s leading manufacturer of innovative products for the access control industry. We manufacture a variety of PC programmable Telephone Entry and Multi-Door Card Access Systems, Telephone Intercom Systems, Digital Keypads and Vehicular Slide, Swing and Barrier gate operators. Our product offerings include a complete line of Magnetic and Electric locks, Proximity Card Readers and a variety of access control accessories.

DPS Booth #410 DPS has been satisfying the ticket needs of the parking industry for more than 40 years.

We produce a full line of machine dispensed, hand issued and jumbo numbered tickets.

Accurate and reliable machine readable tickets, whether using barcodes or magnetic stripes, are our specialty. We produce validation stamps and hang tags. We also carry a complete line of stock hand issued and machine tickets. Please contact us for service, security, accuracy and flexibility.

Duncan Solutions, Inc. Booth #701 Duncan Solutions is a leading provider of parking, tolling, and transportation management services for public and private sector clients.

Duncan’s services include enforcement solutions, citation processing, customer service, debt collections, tolling solutions, and integrated on-street parking management. Since 1936, the Duncan name has stood for quality, durability, and innovation in service to its clients.

More information about Duncan Solutions is available at DuncanSolutions.com.

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Eberle Design, Inc. (EDI) and Reno A&E (RAE) Booth #1013 Eberle Design, Inc. (EDI) and Reno A&E (RAE) provide a wide array of vehicle detection products from inductive loop detectors, Automatic Vehicle Identification systems, Accurate Count Detectors with Directional Logic and Prefabricated roadway induction loops.

EDI will be demonstrating their flagship DEFLECTOMETERTM series loop detectors which provide advanced features such as a built-in frequency meter, signal “CALL” strength meter, and loop diagnostics.

RAE will be demonstrating their DL-ATG Series of Accurate Counting Vehicle Detectors.

ECO Parking Lights Booth #1006

EDC Corp. (AIMS) Booth #827

ENC Booth #1715 Heavy-duty transit and shuttle bus manufacturer specializing in airport and university transportation solutions. Both low-floor and standard-floor bus models are available up to 40’ in length. A multitude of available fuels including clean diesel, CNG, LNG, diesel/electric hybrid and hydrogen fuel cell are offered. ENC, your bus solution for every application. Please contact us today!

EYEPAX IT CONSULTING LLC Booth #1527 The Eyepax digital parking management system OPS utilizes License plate recognition, IoT and cloud technologies to streamline your day to day parking management needs. The OPS Digital permit system offer fully integrated LPR enforcement hardware with integration to pay

by License Plate meter payment systems. The PARCS module in OPS is a digital ticketless parking revenue control system with gate or gateless parking controls, all managed in the cloud.

FAAC International, Inc.

AIMS Parking Software is used by parking operations to enforce and manage parking citations, permits and special events. AIMS provides fully integrated License Plate Recognition hardware and software for efficient citation issuance, automated lot occupancy counts, and statistics at your fingertips. Our AIMS Mobile Enforcement app generates citations in real-time and integrates with the pay-by-phone and pay-on-foot systems of your choice. Visit our booth for live demonstrations of the AIMS System.

ELSAG Booth #811 ELSAG is a world leader in license plate recognition technology for use in parking, tolling and law enforcement applications. Our software and hardware are developed and manufactured in the USA. Applications include access control, time enforced parking (e-chalking), digital permit management/enforcement, payby-plate integration, and automatic ticketing integration. Additionally, our parent company, Leonardo, offers Intelligent Transportation Management Systems and Land Mobile Radios.

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Booth #833 FAAC International, comprised of the Magnetic AutoControl and FAAC Simply Automatic brands, is a leading manufacturer of traffic barriers, security and traffic bollards, access control, turnstiles and other pedestrian solutions, and door and gate operators. FAAC International can offer you locally manufactured products that are designed, engineered, and manufactured specific for your application. All products are fully supported with our warranty and proven service throughout the markets we serve, including North and South America.

First Transit, Inc. Booth #1718 As the leader in university transportation and airport shuttle services, First Transit has extensive experience in operating campus transit systems at 31 colleges and universities, as well as over 15 airport operations across the US. From clients with just one vehicle up to 60, we operate shuttle systems of all types and sizes. First Transit understands the challenges unique to shuttle systems, and designs custom solutions to meet the needs of each client we serve.

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FlashParking

GAI-Tronics Corp.

GTechna Inc.

Booth #625 FlashParking is a parking technology company with a suite of products that together are reinventing parking for both consumers and parking operators. All FlashParking parking solutions—FlashValet, FlashPARCS, FlashMobile—use a cloud-based platform enabling parking operators to tap into real-time data from a mobile phone or desktop. With FlashParking, parking operators control their revenue and parking operations from virtually anywhere, while giving guests the ability to use their mobile device for a superior parking experience.

Booth #830 GAI-Tronics®, a Hubbell Company, is focused on the design and manufacture of the highest quality communication products available. Our RED ALERT® Emergency Telephones can be monitored for health and activity from a central location, via our TMA software. Available in a variety of connectivity options, all products are extremely reliable. GAI-Tronics’ Tower Products provide day or night visibility of emergency telephone locations and a public address location for mass notification.

Booth #1327 gtechna offers scalable feature-rich parking enforcement solutions for municipalities and private parking operators. Android-based offerings on consumer and prosumer devices are a part of our long-term vision on the technology road map centered around plate-based enforcement integration.

FlexPost, Inc

Booth #1115 Genetec™ develops open-platform software, hardware and cloud-based services for the physical security and public safety industry.

Its flagship product, Security Center, unifies IP-based video surveillance, access control and automatic license plate recognition.

Booth #1052 FlexPost, Inc. Manufactures a line of Universal SignPost Solutions for the parking lot. Mounted to durable high carbon steel springs. Our products are designed to absorb an infinite amount of impacts, saving property owners thousands of dollars in expensive replacement costs.

FoPark-Focus Engineering Booth #431 Fopark is a parking solution that uses cameras to provide real time space specific parking availability information for drivers and real time parking statistical data for parking managers to help them optimize pricing based on daily and hourly usage.

Frogparking Limited Booth #1202 Frogparking is a New Zealand-based world leader in innovative and high-tech parking management solutions.

The Frogparking system is designed to manage parking assets more efficiently. Using state-of-the-art parking sensors, wireless indoor & outdoor parking guidance technology, guidance lights, dynamic signage, and leading-edge cloud-based parking management software.

Frogparking’s products and services are scalable, future-proof, environmentally friendly, and are designed to improve and enhance the parking experience.

Fybr Booth #1411 Fybr delivers real-time data to actively connect and improve communities of all sizes, with data drawn directly from life as it happens and where it happens. As an end-to-end solution, Fybr’s low power, low data rate network can deliver reliable, accurate data in the most harsh urban environments – providing actionable data to save time, money and resources within the community.

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Genetec

Global Parking Solutions

Hamilton Manufacturing Corp.

Booth #838 Hamilton Manufacturing Corp. has been in business since 1921 and is a recognized industry leader in the development, manufacturing, and support of automated parking access systems, networked site solutions, and token/ change machines.

Hamilton products are designed and built to improve customer convenience and loyalty, while offering contemporary technology, legendary Hamilton durability and superior security.

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Hectronic USA Corp

Green Building Certification Inc. (GBCI)

HTS Hi-Tech Solutions

Booth #525

Booth #931 GBCI administers Parksmart (formerly known as Green Garage Certification), the world’s only rating system that defines, measures and recognizes high-performing, sustainable garages. Developed by industry experts, Parksmart applies to new and existing facilities and assesses projects in several categories, including parking structure management, programming, design and technology. Visit gbci.org/parksmart to learn more.

greenscreen Booth #1134 With 23 years of experience and over 7,000 installations worldwide, greenscreen® is the leader in green facade technology utilizing a 3-dimensional, recycled steel trellising system that can be installed freestanding or wall mounted. The welded wire trellis panels include attachments that meet demanding engineering requirements for wall panels, fences, screens or columns. Find more information on design, detailing and delivery @greenscreen. com.

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HUB Parking Technology Booth #1317

HUB Parking Technology develops, manufactures, installs, and provides after-sales services for PARC Systems branded ZEAG and DATAPARK in the U.S. Our innovative products and cutting edge software solutions serve a wide variety of applications. Our sophisticated total system solutions and services will improve your business performance. As a vertically integrated company controlling everything from design and manufacturing to installation, maintenance and support, we are positioned to achieve lower total cost of ownership for our clients.

GROUPON Booth #1623 Make Business Boom with Groupon.

Join more than a million merchants who have found new customers, brand awareness, and profitable marketing with no upfront cost.

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IFB TICKET SYSTEMS

International Parking Design

sustain and grow their individual businesses.

Booth #1034 Supply of Tickets, paper rolls and Rfid solutions. Ifb Ticket Systems started as a paper transformation workshop in 1950. We are now a leading player in the tickets for access control and since 2009 the first Spanish company certified by SKIDATA and PARKEON. Ifb ticket systems presents its new range of products with Ifb rfid as a special division manufacturing rfid products from the inlay to the ticket, card, label or tag.

Booth #1206 Since 1969, International Parking Design, Inc. (IPD) has been a leader in providing architectural design, engineering and parking consulting services. As a full-service architectural firm, IPD is an expert at developing parking solutions which has been earned through 48 years of dedicated parking experience. Nationally recognized for award-winning and innovative work, IPD is committed to achieving the highest level of customer satisfaction by delivering quality, efficiency and value to our clients.

IPDisplays LLC

Indect Booth #506 Indect is a manufacturer of Parking Guidance Systems and also electronic signage for use in parking. Indect supplies a range of sensors, software and signage for use in indoor and outdoor parking lots. Indect specializes in interfaces to third party systems including the onsite PARCS. Indect has over 90,000 sensors deployed in the USA. We have a local office in Texas as well as factory direct and distributor offices around the world.

Innoplast, Inc Booth #1320 Innoplast specializes in innovative products for vehicle and facility protection – Our most popular, BollardGard post covers, install quickly and securely with our gripper tabs to improve visibility, safety and appearance while reducing maintenance costs. Additional offerings: speed bumps,column protectors, delineators, flexible posts, steel pipe, and clearance bars.

InPro Corporation Booth #834 JointMaster®, a division of Inpro®, protects buildings in their stand against the elements to provide a safe environment for people.

IntegraPark Booth #906 IntegraPark is the leading provider of accounting and operations management software for the parking industry. Our products include PARIS for managing monthly parkers, Geneva to automate the back office accounting, and Rome, to pull revenue information from the garage to the general ledger.

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IPS Group, Inc. Booth #1119

International Zinc Association Booth #413 The International Zinc Association supports and advances zinc products and markets through research, development, technology transfer and communication of the unique attributes that make zinc sustainable and essential. Zinc coatings provide proven corrosion protection for steel as both a barrier coating and through galvanic or sacrificial protection.

Applied by galvanizing or metallizing, zinc coatings provide decades of maintenance free life to exposed steel structures and also for concrete construction, by protecting embedded reinforcing steel.

IP Parking Booth #545 IP Parking is a developer and manufacturer of web-based Parking Access & Revenue Control Systems. Based in New York City, IP Parking serves end users and distributors both in the US and Canada.

Based in San Diego, CA, IPS Group focuses on the design, engineering, and manufacturing of intelligent parking technologies, payment processing systems, SaaS management software, and low-power wireless telecommunications. The company offers a fully-integrated smart product suite comprised of single-space meters, multi-space pay stations, pay station upgrade kids, vehicle detection sensors, smart cash collection systems and SaaS management software with advanced analytics.

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LAZ Parking

Booth #530 iParq offers a proven, stable, and secure parking management system that is currently used in over a thousand locations across the country. Our solutions are shaped by parking best practices, real-world feedback, and almost two decades of road-tested experience. iParq is a fully-hosted, web-based solution for all of your parking management needs; specializing in permits, enforcement, collections, and event management.

Booth #839 LAZ Parking, founded in 1981, is one of the largest and fastest growing parking operators in the United States operating nearly one million parking spaces across the country. With over 35 years of experience providing parking management services, LAZ works seamlessly across a variety of markets including hospitality and valet, office buildings, medical, airport and transportation, campus, government and municipal, retail, events, residential building and shuttle services.

Parking is our industry, people are our passion.

iPayment, Inc.

Lemonde Partners

Booth #711 iPayment is a premier provider of payment solutions and processing services in the U.S. With over 18 years of experience and 150,000 customers, the company is consistently recognized for its reputation, flexibility, and transparency. From new product innovation to customer service satisfaction, iPayment is an organization focused on enablement and delivering relevant and impactful services and solutions that help our partners and customers

Booth #755 Lemonde Partners, Inc. (Lemonde Partners) has been established as a high-technology manufacturing company based in Houston, Texas. We currently do business catering to a wide variety of market segments including advanced parking systems, mobile homes, building materials with partners mainly in Asia and North America. Lemonde Partners is a vibrant and entrepreneurial company with solid growth.

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Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, LLP

MacKay Meters, Inc.

Medeco Security Locks

Booth #1010 Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, LLP is a national law firm focused on collecting delinquent government receivables, including parking tickets, traffic citations, toll violations, court fees and fines, taxes, and other receivables. For over 40 years the firm has provided customized collection programs for its public-sector clientele. Learn more at www.lgbs. com. Principal Office: Austin, TX. The attorney responsible for this advertisement is Carmen Perez.

Booth #1415 MacKay Meters Incorporated in 1960, J.J. MacKay Canada Limited (MacKay Meters) is a recognized world leader in the parking control business. The MacKay product line includes: • Single-space parking meters featuring the mkBeacon™ and the MacKay Guardian™ X Series mechanisms. Additionally, MacKay manufactures its own line of parking meter housings, locks and decorative poles.

• The MacKay Guardian™ Multi Elite and MacKay Tango™ pay stations.

• Sentinel™ Meter Management System.

Booth #1331 Medeco is the industry leader in high security locking systems. Medeco’s Intelligent Locking System featuring Nexgen locks and keys empowers users to control access with electronic scheduling, reduce operating costs with electronic rekeying, and monitor all accesses with detailed audit reporting. A plug-and-play solution, all power comes from the Nexgen key, so there is no hard wiring. Simply remove the mechanical lock and replace it with a Nexgen electronic lock.

LocoMobi Inc.

MAPEI Corporation

Booth #716 LocoMobi provides a complete ecosystem of products and services to the Parking & Transportation industry. Customized cloud-based solutions that utilize the most pristine technology on the market today. Cloud communication between equipment and mobile devices is our business focus.

LSI Industries Booth #909 LSI Industries is a leading provider of ­IMAGE-enhancing interior & exterior lighting fixtures, lighting controls and graphic solutions that leverage its advanced technology, design and manufacturing capabilities. LSI primarily serves the needs of commercial/industrial, petroleum/convenience store, multi-site retail (auto dealerships, restaurants and national retail accounts), sports and entertainment market segments.

LymTal International, Inc. Booth #1130 LymTal International, Inc., is a manufacturer of waterproofing and concrete protection products. Marketed under the Iso-Flex brand name, the complete package of materials and systems is focused in Division 7 Waterproofing and specifically the parking garage market.

The Iso-Flex brand has 50 years of history and the product scope includes: deck coatings, sealants, sealers, and expansion joint systems.

Iso-Flex products are installed through approved installers and are covered by single source warranties.

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Meypar

Booth #318 MAPEI, a global corporation with 60 manufacturing facilities in 32 countries, has been supplying residential and major commercial projects with total solutions for concrete restoration systems for decorative concrete for more than 75 years. Visit our website at www.mapei.com for technical information or call 1-800-42-MAPEI (1-800.426.2734) for the nearest location.

MC Sign Co. Booth #850 MC Lighting Solutions, a division of MC Sign Company, is the one source for all your lighting needs. In addition to on-demand and routeplanned maintenance, MC performs LED retrofits increasing safety while minimizing energy consumption. The entire project is managed from design and installation to rebates and incentives. MC oversees your entire, customized lighting program while providing a single point of contact as well as the tools to keep you informed at a moment’s notice.

Booth #645 Meypar focuses its innovation efforts on usability and added value; usability to offer a more transparent technology, both to operators and to the thousands of citizens that use our solutions every day, and added value to optimize operations and contribute to our clients’ bottom line. With this foundation, we aim to continue to expand in the United States, where we are already present in Arizona, Nevada and California, and also to continue moving forward.

MM Systems Corporation Booth #911 Founded in 1960, MM Systems offers waterproof, fire rated, thermal and seismic expansion joint systems meeting the rigorous demands of parking structures, stadiums and buildings. Our total “engineered solutions approach” provides design and installation support to architects, engineers, and contractors.

Heritage, values and imagination make MM Systems a leader in the expansion joint and fire protection industry.

MDI Worldwide

MobileNOW!

Booth #328 MDI Worldwide designs and manufactures a wide assortment of indoor and outdoor products for promotional signage, merchandising, and fixturing. In addition to over 200 stock models of frames floor stands, and curb signs, MDI can create custom displays built to your specifications. Our Traffic Control Division has a complete line of products for the parking industry which includes: reflective roll-up signs, portable sign stands, channelizers, and safety vests.

Booth #700 MobileNOW! is a world pioneer and leading provider of mobile phone and other cashless payment methods for the parking industry. In addition to enabling virtual payment and collection options, the MobileNOW! platform offers full enforcement, management and reporting capabilities. For more information, visit Mobile-NOW.com.

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Nagels North America LLC

Next Parking, LLC

O&S Associates

Booth #1615 The Nagels Group is recognized worldwide as an innovative company specializing in the production of machine issued tickets. With over 20 years of ticket printing experience and with distribution to over 65 countries we truly are a worldwide supplier. Nagels specializes in the printing of magnetic stripe tickets, thermal tickets and our newest product line of RFID tickets and Access cards. As a certified partner of most equipment manufacturers we are a one stop solution.

Booth #1114 If you own parking property and are looking for an exit strategy, call Next Parking. We are well-capitalized and quickly evaluate opportunities. We have invested in parking properties over the past decade valued over $400M. Additionally, our consulting division applies knowledge and expertise in all facets of ownership to provide asset management services and comprehensive reports to property owners and managers.

Booth #537 O&S Associates is a leading source of design and restoration services for parking structures nationwide. We offer complete architectural and engineering services in addition to financial, feasibility, demand, PARC’s design, technology consulting, and operational studies. www.oandsassociates.com • New Jersey 201.488.7144 • New York 646.736.0699 • Pennsylvania 610.628.9400 • Ohio 614.469.1988 • DC 202.400.3533 • Chicago 312.462.1717 • Florida 305.676.9888

National Car Charging Booth #704 National Car Charging is one of the largest distributors of electric car charging equipment in the country. Representing the best manufacturers in the industry, we have the selection, the pricing, and the expertise to make EV charging easy for our clients.

Nationwide Payments Booth #735 Nationwide Payments is proud to be one of the most respected names in the Parking Industry. We offer EMV certified attended and unattended solutions along with end to end data encryption. We have rapid transaction processing times and a dedicated team of Parking Experts that contribute to your bottom line. We have diverse payment options for the parking industry. Our new features and software updates remove cost and downtime.

Give us a try!

Nedap Identification Systems Booth #1103 Nedap Identification Systems is the leading specialist in systems for long-range identification, wireless vehicle detection and city access control. Our readers, sensors and controllers optimize, monitor and control the movement of vehicles and people. Safe, secure and efficient.

netPark Booth #836 CLOUD HOSTED PARKING SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS Providing the parking industry the latest in cloud based parking technologies for revenue control, web design and mobile apps

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NextBus, Inc. Booth #1141 NextBus is a cloud-based solution that provides real-time passenger information systems to over 135 transit agencies and organizations.

We serve more than 300 million riders each year and offer a host of arrival information options, including apps for mobile devices, a full-featured website, and signage. For planning and management, agencies and operators have access to a suite of arrival information tools and reports. NextBus information is currently available in English, French, and Spanish.

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NIPPON PRIMEX INC. Booth #501 Nippon Primex Inc. manufactures and sells printers and other electronic equipment in Japan and internationally. It offers kiosk, mobile and portable, and POS printers; mechanism and control boards; and options and accessories, such as power supplies, paper presenters, paper bezels, paper holders, and cash drawers.

NuPark Booth #943 The NuPark Parking Management System was designed to leverage License Plate Recognition (LPR) technology in order to revolutionize the management of your parking operation.

NuPark provides back-office software, in-field hardware, and e-commerce solutions designed for permit management and parking enforcement. Built on a modern platform that integrates the latest technology with customer expectations, the NuPark Parking Management System offers tools and features that optimize daily workflow, improve operational efficiency and increase revenue.

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OmniPark Booth #713 OmniPark is made up of a fully-integrated, hosted desktop application plus mobile enforcement, pay-by-phone services, electronic pay-boxes, notice payment capabilities and so much more.

The OmniPark vision is that of a complete parking solution, available as an out-of-the-box application or customized for you. We take pride in our ability to help you define the specific needs of your business, and to tailor our product to deliver maximum efficiency and satisfaction.

Oobeo, Inc. Booth #245 Oobeo Valetware is a new way to check-in and track vehicles at the valet stand using your mobile device. The platform allows you to collect data on the customers’ vehicles, including marking and pinning the parked location for easier retrieval. Oobeo Valetware lets you know who your customers are; and it can make the entire experience paperless and cashless, making your employees safer and the operation more profitable.

Optec LED Lighting Booth #611 California-based Optec LED Lighting® is a supplier of high efficiency, super bright LED luminaires, ideal for parking lots and structures.

Optec’s exterior fixtures help reduce energy and maintenance costs while providing a quick payback. The luminaires make parking lots and structures bright and secure, and improve the lighting’s quality and color rendition. Optec LED Lighting was established to dedicate resources to the emerging use of LED technology for general illumination.

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Pacific Cascade Parking Equipment Corporation Booth #902 ParkingZone is the online brand for Pacific Cascade, launched in 1987, which is the largest provider of supplies and related equipment for the parking and transportation industry. Visit us at www.ParkingZone.com!

Park Assist Booth #1049 Park Assist® is the parking industry leading camera focused innovator with the most camera based parking guidance installations in the world. Our technology helps customers effortlessly find parking spaces in real-time as well as find their cars when they return. Simultaneously, we provide parking operators with tools to improve customer satisfaction, create new revenue opportunities, realize greater operational control, capture parker analytics and expand CCTV capabilities.

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Parker Video Intercoms Booth #637 When guests press the “help” button, greet them with a smiling face! Discover how our two-way video intercoms put the human touch back into your automated parking facilities.

Stop by our booth to experience a live demo using our remote face-to-face HD video intercoms that bolt onto your existing PARCS equipment. Ask about our 24/7 Remote Attendant Call Center services too! We can answer your calls for as little as 52 cents per hour!

ParkEyes of IMAGiNA VISION ARTIFICIAL S.L. Booth #844 ParkEyes is the most advanced Space by Space Guidance System for Parking. Thousands of cameras watch all spaces supplying information about any robbery, any free space, any bad parked vehicle, etc. Also, each car park customer can locate his car using Find Your Car Kiosk or using his smartphone. ParkEyes is bringing the Future now.

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Parkifi

Parking Today Media

Booth #1033

Booth #404 Parking Today Media provides the broadest circulation and coverage of any media in the parking industry, world wide. 18,000 circulation, the magazine reaches owners, operators, municipalities, universities, airports, shopping centers and venues with parking as one of their missions.

Products include Parking Today, Parking Industry Exhibition, ParkingToday.com and ParkNewsBiz.com.

PARKIMON, INC. Booth #300 Parkimon is a SaaS Parking & Citations Management Platform leveraging disruptive patented technology to not only save millions in hardware costs but exponentially grow one’s parking revenues. Parkimon enables municipalities, airports, universities, private garages, hotels and anyone wanting to use the platform to manage, process and enforce their parking needs. The Parkimon platform offers all consumer facing payment channels including SMS, IVR, USSD, Smartphone apps, etc.

Parking Design Group Booth #619 Parking Design Group has been providing international parking consulting for all aspects of parking since 2003. We provide parking consultation for municipalities and agencies, universities, medical, developers, architects, etc.

We specialize in conceptual design for surface parking lots and parking structures, schematic design development, graphics and way finding, vehicular access controls/equipment layouts, premises liability and implementation of parking guidance systems. No project is too big or too small.

Parking Forward Booth #209 Parking Forward has the knowledge, business, and industry expertise to connect its clients with a full suite of parking technology products, solutions, and services.

Parking Forward partners with businesses of all sizes, including startups, to drive sales on behalf of parking technology and solutions providers. Parking Forward’s broad service offerings range from mobility technologies to full-service parking management and collections solutions. Our customers include operators, municipalities, universities, hospitals, commercial and residential buildings, and more.

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Parking Panda Booth #640 Parking Panda is the most complete, all-in-one solution for online parking reservations, offering a wide range of management tools to help sell excess inventory, automate access control, and process real time payments.

Parking Reservation Software Booth #636 What Makes Parking Reservation Software Unique?

• Developed by a team with decades of experience in travel/parking • Fully integrated across all channels – web, social, search, mobile and maps • Gives the parking manager full control over central reservations, online payments, revenue management, inventory control, customer loyalty rewards and consumer marketing

ParkingSense Booth #1403 Parking Sense is a parking intelligence company delivering a comprehensive suite of solutions to the transportation and parking markets. We provide an integrated platform known as Parking as a Service (PaaS) to satisfy the mobility needs evolving across the global industry. By expediting traffic patterns, we reduce congestion, carbon intensity, and optimize parking infrastructures which redistributes demand in space and time. This is the ultimate low energy technology that works with environmental compliance and sustainability.

Booth #626 Parking Logix provide you with a simple and effective counting solution that’s accurate, cost-effective, and you can install it before lunch. Along with our company, Traffic Logix, we manufacture both the rubber speed humps and digital traffic signage right in our company warehouse, enabling Parking Logix to deliver the most cost effective solution in the market.

We’re a team of a few hundred of the nicest people you could ever meet.

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ParkingSoft LLC

ParkPlus System

Paylock IPT LLC

Booth #1345

Booth #1532 The ParkPlus System offers an integrated SaaS solution that is compatible with any existing hardware and software. Use ParkPlus to better manage your parking by reducing costs, improving customer service, and generating quality information to help you plan for the future.

Booth #901

ParkingSoft is a developer and manufacturer of parking equipment and hosted SaaS cloud solutions. Our user-friendly technology lets our clients focus on their core businesses, helping them to increase profits and customer satisfaction. We deliver a full range of parking solutions that integrate secure, current technologies with a focus on usability for both facility operators and parkers.

ParkIT Booth #832 ParkIT offers a user-friendly dashboard and API on top of our patent-pending computer vision system to provide real-time parking data and reports to parking operators. Our software can work with parking lots with existing IP cameras as well as those that require new cameras to reduce the cost of collecting accurate, outdoor parking data. Connect your spaces to the Smart City with ParkIT.

Passio Technologies Booth #813 Passio, part of the Solstice Transportation Group, provides scalable transit solutions for systems of all sizes that improves efficiency, controls costs, and enhances passenger experiences. Core offerings include real-time vehicle tracking, passenger counting, automated voice announcements, electronic signage, passenger identification, business analytics and customer feedback via text message.

Passio’s proprietary platform, IncroMAXX, provides a single management solution that integrates the technology that passengers demand and operators require for excellence in transit service delivery.

Passport

Booth #1501 Based in Santa Monica, Calif., ParkMe is the leading provider of parking information to navigation companies and smartphones. Founded

by Sam Friedman and Alex Israel, ParkMe’s mission is to make parking easier. ParkMe has built the world’s most comprehensive parking database, including more than 28,000 worldwide locations, 1,800 cities, 32 countries and seven continents.

Booth #215 Passport is the industry’s leading mobile technology company specializing in enterprise business applications and payments for the public and private sector. Passport’s product lines--parking payments, transit payments, enforcement and permit management--­ collectively serve to deliver dynamic tools for agencies to better connect with their communities. Its services have been adopted by over 300 agencies on over 3,000 locations globally including Chicago, Toronto, Boston, Portland, Westminster, and Miami.

Parkmobile

PayByPhone Technologies, Inc.

ParkMe

Booth #1237 Parkmobile, LLC is the leading provider for on-demand and prepaid mobile payments for on- and off-street parking. Their services have been adopted in more than 2,000 locations, including 35 of the top 100 cities in the U.S. by millions of registered users.

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Booth #1633 PayByPhone is one of the fastest growing mobile payments companies in the world, processing more than $250 million in payments annually. Through the company’s mobile web, smartphone and smartwatch applications, PayByPhone helps over 12.5 million registered users easily and securely pay for parking without the hassles of waiting in line, having to carry change or risking costly fines.

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INTEGRATED PUBLIC TECHNOLOGIES

PayLock IPT has invented new ways to provide parking management services that will change how your customer views you – for the better.

SmartBooting, Digital Permitting, and Enforcement Services help public and private parking operators run lean, mean, and green AND change motorist behavior for the better and. At no upfront cost, you’ll get hardware, software and the nation’s best call center resulting in saved time, more choices, and fewer complaints.

Payment Express USA LLC Booth #526 Payment Express is a high growth, innovative global leader in payment technology. Providing PCI DSS compliant card readers and credit card processing for parking providers, we’re certified with all major card schemes. A global end to end payment platform that facilitates parking payments seamlessly in real time.

PCS Mobile Booth #311 PCS Mobile is a provider of proven solutions for field forces to gather information, access information and manage these resources— anytime, anywhere.

Pecora Corporation Booth #709 Pecora Corporation is an American manufacturer of architectural weatherproofing products since 1862, offering a full line of sealants, traffic coatings, and air barriers. Pecora’s high-performance system of traffic coatings and sealants will help protect your parking structure investment from the effects of d ­ e-icing salts, airborne chlorides, and freeze-thaw conditions.

Pecora-Deck’s one-part or two-part low-VOC, low-odor deck series offers unparalleled flexibility of virtually any color in the field through the use of our field-tintable top coat.

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PGAL

Q-Free

Restocon Corporation

Booth #803 PGAL is an international architectural firm with 11 offices throughout the US and Mexico.

PGAL designs a wide range of parking structures from 300 to 9,000 cars that are contextual to their surroundings. PGAL brings to every assignment the perspective and discipline of a long established firm as well as the energy and vision of a contemporary, cutting-edge corporate culture with 200 professionals. PGAL has completed signature parking garages for many public and private clients.

Booth #1627 Q-Free is a leading global supplier of single-source ITS solutions which make journeys safer, cleaner and more efficient. Within Q-Free, Q-Free TCS is one of the leading providers globally for customized parking guidance systems guiding drivers efficiently to available spaces. Q-Free’s other portfolio areas consists of tolling, urban, inter-urban, infomobility, and Homeland Security— all combine to help transport network operators address all smart mobility needs.

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Booth #1538 Restocon Corporation is a full-service commercial and industrial restoration and waterproofing contractor with offices in Tampa, Florida; Houston, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia and Memphis, Tennessee. Founded in 1997, Restocon grew to become one of the most respected general contractors providing structural restoration, parking garage repair, waterproofing, historic restoration, roof coatings, carbon fiber strengthening, post tension cable repairs, fire proofing and concrete floor coatings as well as a variety of other repair and restoration services.

Booth #1038 Philips Lighting solutions combine world-class LEDs with controls to deliver innovative illumination experiences. As leaders in the LED technology revolution, we prioritize energy efficiency, sustainability, and operational cost reduction and we bring deep expertise to execute flawless solutions that ensure the ideal lighting for any lighting need.

Booth #1432 Q-SAQ, Inc. is a US organization focusing on the vehicle parking gates market. The company’s foundation was built on over 25 years’ experience in the parking and access control industries as well as gates and barriers m ­ arket.

PIMS—Parking Intel & Management Systems Booth #541 cramZ marketing services, Inc. is the owner and developer of the PIMS (Parking Intel and Management Systems) software that is designed to make space availability and occupancy counts available to LED signage, across your computer network(s) and in the Cloud for any mobile device to access. We also offer the ability to transmit data from controllers to signage wirelessly, as well as wireless wiegand data transmission. It’s all about solutions and service!

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PSI Paper Systems Inc. Booth #939 Paper Systems Incorporated (PSI) is a direct manufacture of paper roll products for parking pay stations, violation/citation tickets, e-tickets, labels, POS receipts, kiosks, mobile printers, etc. From blank to 6-color custom printed on a variety of thermal paper grades, PSI is the answer to your parking paper roll needs. Our experienced sales team is ready to serve your company. Please give us a call at 888.465.9951 to get started today.

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Quercus Technologies Booth #1335 Quercus Technologies develops and manufactures highly technological solutions which aim at improving mobility in car parks. Quercus products rely on advanced computer vision algorithms and include: All-in-One license plate recognition units, parking guidance systems based on All-in-One LPR-based sensors and digital video recorders. Quercus has recently launched the innovative Birdwatch parking software suite that relies on all the smart detection technologies developed by the company and provides total control of car parks.

Rath Security Booth #807 Rath has been in the Emergency Communication business for over 35 years. We are a privately owned company located in Sussex, WI; a suburb of Milwaukee. We are the largest manufacturer of Emergency phones in North America. With over 400,000 phones in the field, you can rest assured the quality and performance of our Communication Systems lead the industry.

Relevant Solutions Booth #812 INTEC Controls provides carbon monoxide monitoring and ventilation control systems meeting the highest global standards for safety, reliability and energy efficiency including UL-2075, EN50545-1, IMC2015 and CA Title 24.

With over 25 years of experience and over 20 million square feet of carbon monoxide monitoring added in 2015 in the US alone, INTEC Controls continues to be a trusted, industry-leading, global source for this very important but often overlooked piece of enclosed parking garage operations.

RezPort Booth #1545 RezPort offers white-label parking technology solutions for airports, cruise ports, municipalities and universities.

Integrated seamlessly into your existing website, our cloud-based platform allows for the creation of a branded solution encompassing every aspect of your parkers’ needs with: • Industry’s best white-label reservation software • Central Reservation System (CRS): POS technology • Customer loyalty rewards.

Rollpark Booth #1349 Rollpark is the first rollable, eco-friendly alternative to asphalt — saving time, money, space, and the environment. Unlike asphalt and concrete, Rollpark replenishes the water table, filters hydrocarbons, and eliminates flood-causing retention ponds.

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Rytec High Performance Doors Booth #421

SB Ballard Construction Company Booth #1132

Scheidt & Bachmann USA, Inc. Booth #1039 Scheidt & Bachmann has been a leading international transportation solutions provider since 1872. The Parking Division offers parking access and revenue control systems to various industry clients including airports, hospitals, universities and municipalities. For more information, visit Scheidt & Bachmann’s website at www.scheidt-bachmann.com.

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Schweers Technologies Inc.

Smarking, Inc.

Spaceek, Inc.

Booth #1145 Developing, designing and manufacturing hand held parking enforcement equipment, software and mobile applications for 28 years.

With 1,200 municipal and police customers worldwide and 10,000 operating terminals issuing 100 million tickets we are proven experts at creating multi layered enforcement solutions for every size operation. Realtime ticketing, realtime integration with 3rd party providers i.e. pay by phone, realtime scofflaw + permit checks, LPR on devices, integration with any post processing provider.

Booth #1137 Smarking enables parking managers to foresee future demand and maximize the utilization of parking properties with optimized pricing.

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Secom International, Inc.

Southland Printing provides all Brand/MODELS of Machine and Hand Issued tickets.

Our products include Mag Stripe, Bar Code and RFID enabled products plus Validation/ Scrip Books, Hang Tags, Decals, and a variety of products for the Entertainment industry.

Southland offers... over 150 STOCKED items ready for 24 hour shipment...20 WORKING DAY TURNAROUND on all products...worry free ORDERING via Phone, Fax, Email or our Web Site.

We can supply what you need when you need it!

Booth #1316 Stop by and see Secom’s solutions for their customers’ revenue control needs. Whether its improved lane throughput and revenue capture with automated pay-on-foot configurations or simply speeding up valet vehicle retrieval processes, Secom offers systems tailored to meet your location requirements. Secom takes their signature audit controls to new heights with the Net Admin remote monitoring capabilities that permit real-time viewing of all location transactions and reports from just about anywhere in the world.

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Southland Printing Co., Inc. Booth #1025

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Booth #1116

Signal-Tech Booth #1243 Signal-Tech is a US manufacturer of LED signs.

We offer a complete line of LED parking signs, The RedStorm™ Parking Guidance System and Space Available signs with 4-digit counter displays. Our LED signs are ideal for entry, exit and wayfinding applications. We can also customize LED signs to your specifications, with fast lead-times and no minimum order quantities.

SKIDATA, Inc. Booth #1201 SKIDATA is an international leader in the field of access solutions and their management.

With 10,000 SKIDATA installations in over 90 countries worldwide we provide secure and reliable access and revenue control for people and vehicles. SKIDATA places great value in providing solutions that are intuitive, easy to use, and secure. The integrated concepts of SKIDATA solutions help clients optimize performance and maximize profits.

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SpotHero Booth #808 SpotHero is a parking reservation service that empowers operators to sell inventory online.

Operators can capture online demand by listing on SpotHero’s mobile and web platform to bring in customers that would otherwise not find their facilities. SpotHero currently partners with hundreds of parking companies across the country and if we’re not in your city yet, we will be soon!

State & Regional Associations (SRA) Booth #1030

STEGO Inc. Booth #516 Since 1980, STEGO has produced leading products for energy efficient thermal management of electronic components. Convection heaters, fan heaters, and filterfans to name a few. These products keep enclosed electronics on small and large scales running safely, economically, and reliably, from state-of-the art server racks for international corporations to wind turbines in extreme environments. With locations and strategic partnerships around the world STEGO is The Electronics Protector.

SURVISION

SP+ is a diverse provider of professional parking, ground transportation, facility maintenance, security and event logistics services to property owners and managers in all markets of the real estate industry. We are operations specialists who link innovation with exceptional market-based expertise in each of our service lines. With nine distinct operating divisions—each focusing exclusively on a single market—we are experts at understanding and satisfying their specific needs.

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Booth #1510 SURVISION is a global leader in Licence Plate Reading (LPR) with 20,000 sensors deployed in more than 30 countries thanks to our 300 Value Added Integrators.

Our sensors backed with our unique support softwares and innovative technologies provide integrators the best LPR systems for parking applications.

SUZOHAPP Booth #407 SUZOHAPP provides highly engineered cash processing solutions in the transportation, retail, finance, and cash center markets.

SUZOHAPP’s solutions include currency handling equipment, display solutions, machine operation components and payment systems.

Combining SUZOHAPP’s advanced technology and industry knowledge ensures solutions that make cash handling efficient, easy and economically viable. With approximately 1,100 global employees serving more than 25,000 customers, SUZOHAPP has manufacturing, engineering, distribution, and service facilities in 19 countries globally. More information available at www.na.suzohapp.com.

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T2 Systems, Inc. Booth #1001 T2 Systems was founded in 1994 with one goal: make parking better. Our focus is on our customers, which means giving you more solutions to make parking management as seamless as possible. To that end, we offer our unified parking management platform— the parking industry’s most comprehensive solution suite. Our solutions are designed to make parking easier for the people who make parking work—you.

TagMaster North America Booth #1101

Takeform Booth #1155 A manufacturer of wayfinding, vehicular and pedestrian signage. Created specifically for the parking garage environment, Transit is a complete sign system that’s as attractive as it is rugged—ideal for the twists and turns of a high-traffic facility. Designed with bold color palettes that correspond to the levels of your garage, Transit provides every sign type required, including bang bars, overheads, flags, and wall mounts.

Tannery Creek Systems, Inc. Booth #731

Tecnorap USA Booth #949 Tecnorap USA provides a unique Parking Deck Waterproofing and Protection with Radcon Formula # 7. Radcon does it’s waterproofing below the surface level unlike a membrane, which means it cannot be damaged by traffic.

By forming a gel in the cracks and capillaries, Radcon # 7 can accommodate thermal stresses arising from temperature changes from night and summer to winter in all climatic areas. 25-Year Warranty.

Telefonix Inc. Booth #708 Telefonix®, Inc. is the manufacturer of the PowerPost® commercial line of electric vehicle charging stations (EVSE), which is focused on low current charging solutions for commercial parking lots or garages where cars are parked for two or more hours. The L1 PowerPost™ EVSE, the first commercial Level 1 EV charging station, and the L2 PowerPost™ EVSE, a low current, commercial Level 2 EV charging station, are now both available in free-standing and wall-mounted product versions.

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Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) Booth #324 The National Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center (NERRTC), a founding member of the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium (NDPC), has been preparing state and local officials and emergency responders to prevent and respond to acts of terrorism and other disasters since 1998.

NERRTC is a center within the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX), and draws upon more than 80 years of experience in developing and delivering training for emergency responders.

TEZ Booth #817 SMS Valet is the world’s first TICKETLESS valet system. Using mobile phone numbers instead of paper, SMS Valet keeps you green and stops valet theft. SMS Valet system includes free Damage History, Electronic Validation, Online Reporting, Car Requesting. People may lose their ticket, but they won’t lose their phone!

The Barnacle Booth #301 The Barnacle is on a mission to revolutionize the way parking enforcement is done, making the process easier and more efficient for authorities and violators alike. Our Barnacle Parking Enforcement System uses the latest materials and technology to provide immediate cost savings, increased revenue generation, and a safer working environment for enforcement personnel.

It’s time for a better way to enforce parking.

The Gotcha Group Booth #1318 We are an eco-friendly marketing & transportation company offering ride share in our 100% electric vehicles and low cost bike sharing options on college campuses and downtown areas utilizing smart bike technology.

The Miner Corporation Booth #1409 Miner® is North America’s facility expert in equipment installation, repairs and asset management solutions to reduce customer costs and improve uptime, creating a safer and more sustainable environment.

THP Limited, Inc. Booth #1430 THP develops parking structures that are economical, efficient and inviting to the user.

Our approach begins with thorough owner and end-user dialog. Our designs balance aesthetics and functional needs within the schedule and budget. THP restoration personnel have assessed and repaired nearly 1,000 parking structures throughout the country. THP has 10 USGBC/Green Parking Council Parksmart Advisors on staff.

TIBA Parking Systems Booth #507 TIBA Parking is a global market leader providing innovative parking solutions that are geared to help operators monetize their parking assets. Customers from diverse industries, such as Airports, Universities, Commercial, Municipalities, Health and Hospitality, among others can benefit from a wide range of solutions that are built with exceptional craftsmanship and intuitive design. TIBA parking is focused on clients’ efficiency and profitability, maximizing ROI and improved TCO. TIBA has an extensive global dealer network.

Timothy Haahs & Associates, Inc. Booth #524 Timothy Haahs & Associates, Inc. (TimHaahs) understands the important role parking plays in development. A multi-disciplined engineering and architectural firm, TimHaahs specializes in planning – master planning for campuses, urban and high density areas, and transit related projects – and providing design services for parking and mixed-use buildings. TimHaahs’ engineers, architects, planners, and parking specialists focus on parking solutions, bringing a unique perspective to our clients in private corporations, real estate, education, healthcare, government, and transit.

TNR Doors Booth #1407 TNR Doors provides a new generation of custom built High Performance Doors for the parking industry. Our rubber parking garage doors are designed for low headroom and reduced clearances. Offering fast, reliable and durable operation that’s easily reset after vehicle impact, significantly reducing downtime and repair costs. Our aluminum rolling doors provide security, insulation, premium aesthetics and include a perforated door option. TNR’s door controller accepts a wide range of external controls and safety devices.

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2017 IPI CONFERENCE & EXPO

Toledo Ticket Company

Trecan Snowmelters

Valcom

Booth #801

Booth #415 Trecan Snowmelters are the Industry Standard for Snow Removal Efficiency on parking decks, parking garages and parking lots. Save time and money with a reliable and cost effective Trecan Snowmelter. Put an end to trucking costs and on-site snowbanks, eliminate snow removal delays and snowdump fees. Save up to 50% of your snow budget with an eco-friendly and energy efficent Trecan Snowmelter. Visit us at booth # 415 and on line at: www.trecan.com

Booth #320 Since 1977, Valcom has been the leader in high quality loudspeaker paging and telecommunication system enhancement products providing solutions for the most sophisticated communication requirements. Specializing in system solutions, Valcom’s extensive offerings are manufactured in state-of-the-art-facilities in Roanoke, Virginia and include analog/IP Page Control interfaces/gateways, VoIP connectivity, IP EndPoints, ceiling/wall speakers, paging horns, analog/digital clocks (IP, wired, wireless), emergency blue light stations and message signs.

Turtle Top The Toledo Ticket Company produces tickets including bar-coded/magnetic-striped, hand-issued, valet, access cards, and spitters for thermal/non-thermal revenue control. Our RFID tags are great for college parking/credentials.

Check out PermitPoint–our permit management and fulfillment systems.

TransCore, Inc. Booth #916 For 80 years, TransCore has provided innovative, transportation solutions for All-Electronic Tolling and security access systems. Having pioneered RFID access technology, our systems secure access for parking garages, hospitals, universities, gated communities, and airport applications. Our tags and readers are hands-free, battery-free, interoperable, and sustainable.

Transponder & Reader Engineered Systems, Inc Booth #514 Transponder and Reader Engineered Systems is an aggressive RFID development company specializing in Passive 900MHz and Active 433MHz products. Designed for the Parking Industry, TRES products are cost effective, high quality with short lead times and custom tags available. Ask about our innovative, secure and uncompromising new “tres2prox” and “tres2smart” multiple technology ISO quality, printable Card/Tags. See our unique Valet tracking aspects of the TRES Intelli-Track. TRES is an American company with high performance solutions.

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Booth #151 Turtle Top specializes in manufacturing small to mid-sized buses and specialty vehicles. We started manufacturing automotive products in 1962 and believe the key to success lies in the satisfaction of our customers. We aim to satisfy each one beyond their expectations. We are proud of our reputation in the automotive industry as a company that ensures quality, service, longevity, and integrity. What better reason to choose a Turtle Top?

United Public Safety Booth #529 United Public Safety is a Pennsylvania-based technology provider that delivers the single best parking, permitting, code enforcement and e-citation solution(s) available on the market today. The solutions developed by UPsafety have been refined and adapted to satisfy the disparate needs of municipalities, law enforcement, colleges/universities, medical institutions, and private property owners throughout the USA. UPsafety utilizes cloud-based software and state-of-the-art hardware while offering unprecedented training and support for departments of one to one thousand.

Vigilant Solutions Booth #617 Vigilant Solutions helps law enforcement solve crimes faster. Our easy-to-use interface was designed by former detectives combining analytics with license plate recognition (LPR) and facial recognition to generate more leads.

Securely share real-time data amongst 1,000+ agencies and tap into our commercial LPR database of 5+ billion detections. Combine your mugshots with our hosted facial recognition gallery and image editing tools to boost potential match searches. Bring criminals to justice with Vigilant Solutions.

VIMOC Technologies Booth #707 VIMOC’s Landscape Computing is game-changing technology. By leveraging our novel edge-to-cloud and vision-based counting techniques, we accurately collect, aggregate & present parking data through a standard API accessible to 3rd party vendors, enriching applications such as enforcement, parking availability & guidance as well as increasing occupancy, revenue & customer satisfaction.

Universal Boot Inc.

W.S. Tyler

Booth #1017 Strong, simple and easy to use parking enforcement devices are just the beginning.

Come meet JP and Oliver and see for yourself.

The new approach to parking enforcement: a company that listens, and a product that adapts to your needs, with proven results and no strings attached. All of the innovation you require, none of the uncertainty.

Booth #1210 With over 150 yrs of experience, W.S. Tyler pioneered the process of weaving wire. Architectural design mesh can meet your aesthetic and functional needs. Taking parking garage design to the next level.

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Walker Parking Consultants

Weldon, Williams & Lick, Inc.

Worldsensing

Booth #910

Booth #1109 Since 1898, Weldon, Williams & Lick, Inc. has been serving our clients parking control needs.

Offering a full array of full color stickers & hangtags, allows the marketing/branding of your decal while preserving the enforcement aspect you require.

Parking solutions include: Permitplus, RFID, Custom Foil, among others, along with our fulfillment solutions of PermitDirect® and Direct Fulfillment as well.

We look forward to 2017 IPI and discussing your needs and the solutions WW&L provides.

Booth #745

Walter P Moore & Associates Booth #1112 Walter P Moore just turned 85 and we’re celebrating all year long! We are an international company of engineers, innovators, and creative people who solve some of the world’s most complex structural and infrastructural challenges. Providing structural, diagnostics, civil, traffic, transportation, and parking engineering services, we engineer solutions that are cost- and resource-efficient, forward-thinking, and help support and shape our communities.

Watry Design, Inc. Booth #1031 Watry Design, Inc., from our offices in Northern and Southern California and Texas, creates parking solutions specifically tailored to your project’s needs. Our highly skilled architects, engineers and parking planners provide services at all stages of the parking lifecycle whether you need an early study or full parking structure design. Infused with a passion for parking, our team produces cost effective, award winning solutions for satisfied clients.

Remember “It’s Not The Journey, It’s The Parking!”

Watson Bowman Acme Corp.

Booth #1322 Watson Bowman Acme Corp., a BASF company, is the leading innovator, designer, manufacturer and marketer of specialty expansion control systems & products for parking structures, stadiums and mixed-use facilities.

Leading architects and parking design engineers prefer and specify Wabo expansion joint & fire barrier systems when their clients require durable and responsible protection of their parking and building assets. T: 800.677.4922. Visit www.wbacorp.com.

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Western Specialty Contractors Booth #937 Western Specialty Contractors is the largest specialty contractor in the country. With over 30 offices nationwide, our network of 1,500 skilled craftsmen and tradesman carries out the vision that Ben Many and George Bishop started over a 100 years ago. Craftsmanship and relationships are the foundation on which this company started and continues to grow.

We provide our clients with services such as Masonry Restoration and Preservation, Roofing, Tuckpointing, Concrete Restoration, Waterproofing, and Disaster Recovery.

Westward Industries Ltd. Booth #445 Westward Industries is the proud maker of the GO-4 three wheel vehicle. A Task Specific Parking enforcement vehicle. Compact, nimble, and reliable, offered in gas or electric model.

The superior vehicle for easily navigating city traffic, allowing the department to increase parking revenue while decreasing operator fatigue, by simply choosing a GO-4 enforcement vehicle.

Winpark / Propark Booth #408 Winpark / Propark is a combination of two premier parking management companies providing services for more than 500 locations in markets across the United States. Winpark and Propark are experienced parking services providers, offering parking solutions for industries of all types. The two offer a wide variety of parking management services including valet, garage management, operations, remote management, and shuttle transportation services office buildings, retail centers, airports, medical centers, universities, municipalities, residential buildings and hotels.

WPS USA Corp.

Booth #1507

Zenitel USA, Inc Booth #1441 Vingtor-Stentofon by Zenitel Group, a leading provider of critical communications solutions, offers innovative onshore and off-shore communications worldwide. Vingtor-Stentofon provides integrated audio solutions for environments where life, property and assets are at stake. Systems interface with other security devices including CCTV, access control and alarm for a comprehensive security solution.

Live demonstrations will include the Turbine IP video intercom station, awarded MVP at ISC West 2016 by SSI Magazine, and Turbine intercom stations featuring Pulse.

ZipBy LLC Booth #1240 ZipBy is a global, comprehensive, ticketless parking system solution which integrates with both new & existing parking garage Access Control equipment. ZipBy’s system enables parkers to Enter, Exit and Pay for parking, with a guaranteed 100% Revenue Capture, and does not require the driver to interact with a smartcard, electronic device or the parking system equipment. ZipBy is effective for managing permanent parkers, regular users and first time visitors with ease and efficiency.

ZipPark, Inc. Booth #600 ZipPark is a global leader in parking technology for event and valet operations. Its broad line of products address the specific revenue control and management needs of parking operations at sports and entertainment venues, shopping centers, airports, hotels and casinos, office buildings, hospitals, and municipal garages.

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At the 2017 IPI Conference & Expo, Take Your Career and Your Team to the Next Level 2017 Pre-Conference Courses at the IPI Conference & Expo in New Orleans, La. Save the date, mark your calendar, and get registered. Courses are designed for all parking professionals, including those interested in CAPP; every course earns CAPP points for certification and recertification.

SATURDAY, MAY 20

Media Interview Coaching 6 CAPP Points SUNDAY, MAY 21

APO Site Reviewer Training 7 CAPP Points, .07 CEUs Parksmart Advisor Training 7 CAPP Points, .07 CEUs, 7 GBCI CEs

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IPI IN ACTION 2017 IPI CONFERENCE

GET SMARTER IN NEW ORLEANS

By Kathleen Federici, MEd

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ew Orleans, La., has it all: great Cajun food, music, dancing, and deep cultural history. Coinciding with all that is fantastic in New Orleans, the 2017 IPI Conference & Expo has a terrific lineup of educational opportunities. Unfortunately, we will not have a class on how to speak Cajun but we do want you to veiller with all your friends and colleagues at the Conference.

Start Planning

KATHLEEN FEDERICI, MEd, is IPI’s director of professional development. She can be reached at federici@parking.org.

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Get your planner and agenda ready! To kick things off, we have five pre-Conference sessions. “Media Interview and Coaching” will be facilitated by the Communication Center of Washington, D.C.—practice with an award-­ winning executive coach to strengthen your communication skills. We also offer APO Site Reviewer training and Parksmart Advisor certificate training, along with two multi-day classes: a business management class offered by the University of Virginia, and “Parking Immersion and Operations” offered by seasoned instructors who are also subject matter leaders.

IPI’s ever-popular ShopTalks provide an open forum to discuss challenges, solutions, and successes with your peers, emerging leaders, and consultants in the industry.

This year, we will offer several ShopTalks before the start of Conference: ●● Airport. ●● Municipal Operations. ●● University/Campus Operations. ●● Hospital/Medical Center.

Our education schedule lineup is stellar and will surely tempt your tastebuds, inspire a-ha moments, and offer ideas and actionable improvements to take home, in five tracks: ●● Technology & Innovation will illustrate how recent advances in transportation technology provide actionable information to improve customer satisfaction and create operational efficiencies. We hear and see the buzzwords: automated, self-driving, driverless, connected vehicles. Come learn what it all means. How are you using all the data you’ve collected? Learn how to benefit with the right benchmarking tools. ●● Finance & Auditing will demonstrate how key performance indicators (KPIs) can better help define our industry and benchmark your program. Explore benefits of the negotiation process and scope changes. Check out “Park Your Data Here: IPI’s Approach to Defining Our Industry;” and “Non-Profit Parking Privatization Partnerships.”

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Planning, Design, and Construction will highlight how to use a limited-cost database on the maintenance and repair of parking structures, including identifying trends of maintenance and repair costs throughout the service life of a structure. Learn how to employ a collaborative planning, design, and construction effort.

Take in “Planning and Designing for an Unknown Future,” and “Planning an Automated Parking Guidance and Wayfinding System: An Interactive Experience.” ●● Mobility & Alternative Transportation will analyze how on-demand technology such as Uber and Lyft has stunned the taxi industry while enjoying triple and quadruple growth in many cities. What effect will it have on parking? Learn how a redevelopment led to an increase in revenue of more than 29 percent, greater turnover in parking spaces, access to visitor parking, and increased customer satisfaction for one city. Sessions include “Uber’s Effect on Parking” and “New Brunswick: Modern Parking Increases Efficiency.” ●● Personal Development will offer insights into strategies to ensure you’re being your most effective self through managing “self talk” and picking the words that best reflect your thoughts. Learn practical steps to use effective leadership skills that promote high levels of employee engagement and productivity. Sessions include “Think Fast, Talk Slow: The Art and Science of Spontaneous Speech,” and “De-Stressing for Parking Professionals: Useful Tools to De-Stress at Work and Not Take It with You.” ●●

But Wait, There’s More Join us for our popular TECHTalks on the Expo hall floor. These 45-minute presentations have an emphasis on technology to help you gain further understanding of the changes afoot and run concurrently with show hours.

The most difficult part of all of these opportunities is choosing which ones will give you inspiration. We can’t wait to see you in New Orleans! Remember, don’t be honte to attend a session that is new to you!

VISUALIZE YOUR SUCCESS: WAYS TO EARN OR MAINTAIN YOUR CAPP CREDENTIAL New CAPP Resource Guide and sample CAPP exam questions available today at parking.org!

Have you considered earning your CAPP? It’s the world’s leading credential in parking and a pathway to personal accomplishment and career opportunities.

Good news: It’s now more convenient to prepare for the CAPP credential and find an exam testing center near you.

Take the first step. Start here: parking.org/CAPP

CAPP is a rigorous certification program that covers seven topic areas: I. General Knowledge II. General Management III. Operations Management IV. Financial and Operational Auditing V. Federal, State, and Local Laws VI. Marketing and Public Relations VII. Analysis and Application of Technology

STATE & REGIONAL SPOTLIGHT CAROLINAS PARKING ASSOCIATION

ADVANCING PARKING IN THE CAROLINAS

By Lynn Sylvia

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elcome to the Carolinas Parking Association (CPA)! CPA is a professional association of parking administrators, practitioners, suppliers, vendors, and consultants formed for the purposes of acquiring knowledge, encouraging professional development, providing mutual support, and creating an environment for professional interaction.

Membership is open to government bodies, authorities, colleges, universities, hospitals, airports, corporations, and other types of businesses and individuals associated with the parking industry, along with others who support the organization’s objectives.

The association is off to a roaring start this year! A huge thank-you goes out to Paul Whetzel for holding

the board together during many challenges and for producing a sold-out vendor 2016 conference. We are happy to welcome three new members to the board: Mark Aakhus, Kerry Beck, and Harry Brown.

The new board met in January 2017 to begin planning for the year, which is scheduled to include IPI regional training, enhancements to the organization’s website, and the fall conference. To allow for more member participation, the board established committees to oversee different aspects of the organization. Committee options are membership, outreach, website development, newsletter development, scholarship, conference preparations, and awards of excellence. Please contact me at lsylvia@ cfcc.edu if you are interested in participating.

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Board of Directors President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lynn Sylvia Vice President of North Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . Suzanne Williams-Dorsett Vice President of South Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mark Aakhus Secretary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robin Davenport Treasurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Garrett Male Vendor Representative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kerry Beck Consultant Representative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chris Iser At-Large Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Derrick Moore Dave Pitts Harry Brown Immediate Past President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Paul Whetzel

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We are excited about this year’s annual fall conference and trade show. The beautiful Renaissance Asheville Hotel, Asheville, N.C., will be our host, Sept. 26–29.

“Learning from the Past and Preparing for the Future of Parking: Celebrating the Parking Industry’s 100th Birthday, Gatsby Style” will be our theme, and we are excited to once again produce a full vendor exhibition hall. Sponsorship opportunities abound on a firstcome, first-served basis in levels VIP, Black Diamond, Diamond, Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Golf Friends of CPA. We are currently accepting presentation submissions from experienced, articulate individuals who are willing to share their professional experience and expertise in a myriad of specialized parking topics. The agenda will include a golf tournament, meet and greet with the board, vendor visitation, keynote speaker, breakout and roundtable sessions, Great Gatsby gathering, awards, door prizes, and much more.

Please continue to monitor carolinasparking.org for membership opportunities and conference registration.

Awards of Excellence At the 2016 Fall Conference and Trade Show, CPA was pleased to present its Awards of Excellence:

Category I: Parking Structure–Design (New) Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College Parking Deck Location: Asheville, N.C.

Submitted by: Keith Hargrove Architect, PC, Asheville, N.C.

Category III: Parking System/ Operation–Most Innovative and/or Effective Operations (two winners) North Carolina Department of Administration-Parking Equipment Installation, Decks 64, 75, and 76 Location: Raleigh, N.C.

Submitted by: Kimley-Horn

State Parking GIS Mapping Project 2016, 26 locations throughout the state government complex Location: State Government Parking Complex, Raleigh, N.C.

Submitted by: North Carolina Department of Administration, State Parking Division

Category IV: Parking System/Structure Marketing Program West End Park and Ride Lot Location: Greenville, S.C.

Submitted by: City of Greenville Department of Public WorksParking Services

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In 2017, CPA will award outstanding contributions in the categories listed on the left, along with Category II, Parking Structure-Renovation/ Restoration/Rehabilitation and—new this year— Category V, Frontline Employees and/or First-Level Supervisors who exhibit excellent work ethics and dedication to career.

Catherine G. Reeve Professional Development Scholarship CPA implemented a professional development scholarship fund two years ago and named it after Catherine Reeve to honor her unwavering love of and dedication to the association and the parking/transportation industry. The professional development scholarship provides CPA members with financial support to further their professional development in all areas of the parking and transportation industry. It can be used for training and/or to attend conferences, such as the annual conferences sponsored by CPA and IPI. For more information and a scholarship application please visit carolinasparking.org

What the Future Holds CPA has an exciting and busy year ahead of it. The board could not do what we do without the support of our loyal sponsors, vendors, and members. You make our team successful, and we hope you will join us. Please reach out to any of our board members individually or email us at carolinasparking@gmail. com. We are happy to answer any questions you may have or discuss any of the great opportunities that exist within the Carolinas Parking Association. We look forward to hearing from you.

LYNN SYLVIA is events coordinator at Cape Fear Community College and president of the Carolinas Parking Association.

She can be reached at lsylvia@cfcc.edu.

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COMMUNITY DIGEST

Klever Logic Rebrands as FlashParking

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LEVER LOGIC has renamed itself FlashParking.

The rebrand is designed to signal to customers that the company’s suite of parking solutions goes beyond valet and now includes revenue control solutions for garages and parking lots.

The rebrand includes a new brand identity along with a new website that merged all of Klever Logic’s solutions—FlashValet, FlashPARCS, and FlashMobile— under the FlashParking umbrella. The company first started under the FlashValet moniker, which is why it became known as the “Flash Guys.” But as its solution portfolio grew, it became apparent that the company needed an identity that represented the full breadth of its capabilities.

Customers can visit flashparking.com to get a 360-­degree view of FlashParking and its solutions and log on to the customer portal to manage their venues in real time.

All of this comes on the heels of FlashParking’s funding announcement, led by Austin-based serial entrepreneurs Sam Goodner and Dan Sharplin. Their $3 million injection allowed for a hiring surge to better serve customers. Fueled by this growth, in

January, the company moved to its new headquarters in South Austin.

Since the company launched five years ago, FlashParking’s solutions now run in more than 850 venues across the country and are used by the top brands in the hospitality industry. The FlashParking platform has processed more than 33 million vehicles so far.

“During the rebranding process, it was important to us to maintain the integrity of the Flash brand and our continued commitment to being the best and fastest in the industry,” says company President Sam Goodner.

“It is our goal that the new FlashParking brand will become recognized as the industry standard for a superior parking solution that delivers on the promise of parking in a flash.”

SpotHero Launches Parking Developer Platform

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POTHERO announced the launch of the SpotHero Parking Developer Platform to provide parking reservation functionality to websites, apps, and cars with connected or autonomous capabilities. SpotHero enables drivers to reserve affordable off-street parking nationwide via its website and mobile app. With the SpotHero Parking Developer Platform, partner businesses will be able to offer similar parking reservation functionality directly in their own applications so drivers can easily secure parking using their interface of choice.

“SpotHero has the biggest network of parking facilities in the United States that accept online reservations, so we’re excited to make reservation functionality on our platform available to third-party apps,” says Anthony Broad-Crawford,

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chief product officer. ”Giving drivers the ability to reserve parking through their interface of choice—whether that’s on our app or another service—will help make driving even easier for more people, and that’s what we’re about.”

The SpotHero Parking Developer Platform includes three tools: an API, SDK, and web widget.

With select beta partners, SpotHero’s platform is already on track to process tens of thousands of reservations in 2017.

“We’ve seen tremendous success with a variety of partners over the past few months,” says Elan Mosbacher, VP of strategy and partnerships. “We look forward to continuing to partner with more companies for whom parking is a critical part of closing the loop on an end-to-end seamless transportation experience.”

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Towne Park Celebrates Record Growth TOW N E PA R K A N N O U N C E D it expects record performance in 2017, driven largely by organic growth of its leading hospitality services business, including strong expansion in key Florida markets as it continues to capitalize on the rapid professionalization of the industry and strong demand for more sophisticated, value-added services.

“Momentum has accelerated. We are well ahead of last year’s pace, and our pipeline is outstanding, pointing toward a tremendous 2017,” says Towne Park President and Chief Executive Officer Chuck Heskett. “We added nearly 50 new accounts last year organically in our hospitality business and fully expect to break that record in 2017 as we are approaching 20 new accounts in the first two months of the year.”

“Top hospitality organizations today need partners that can manage complexities, quickly scale up services, and provide business intelligence,” continues Heskett.

Towne Park’s operations include approximately 13,000 employees operating at more than 700 destinations nationwide, providing unsurpassed personal care and attention to 15 million guests every year—all managed by experts and thought leaders from multiple sectors.

“We manage complex IT and legal challenges for partners, deploy scalable special operations teams and all-star site leaders on demand, and provide analytics and market forecasts based on our own national data,” says Heskett. “The higher the bar, the more we shine.”

Five leading hospitality destinations in Florida recently selected Towne Park as their partner of choice to help them build better guest experiences and increase operational efficiencies. New hotel partners include the Wyndham Grand Clearwater Beach and the Tampa Marriott Waterside, where Towne Park drove an immediate increase in the profitability of the hotel’s parking business.

“These wins validate the marketplace’s confidence in our ability to add value and underscore how well-positioned we are as the market evolves,” says Heskett. “We look forward to continued success inspiring and delighting the guests of our partners throughout beautiful Florida and the rest of the country.”

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COMMUNITY DIGEST

EMX Industries Introduces the WEL-200 Wireless EdgeLink

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functionality. The WEL-200R is NEMA 4X, allowing

provides a complete wireless solution for

for easy, reliable outdoor installation. Featuring

interfacing sensing edges with gate and door

an integrated antenna, the receiver offers flexible

operators. The Wireless Edge Link eliminates wiring

mounting options outside the operator for maxi-

between the safety edge and operator control box,

mum performance.

reducing labor and material costs. Compliant with

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transmitter and receiver. The transmitter is battery powered and compatible with both 8.2K and 10K monitored safety edges. The receiver connects with up to four transmitters with separate relay and pulse outputs for open and close edge

LAZ Parking Realty Investors LLC Acquires Five New Properties LAZ PARKING REALTY INVESTORS LLC (LPRI) added five new locations to its portfolio in the past 18 months, involving a total investment of approximately $291 million. The largest and most recent acquisition was a nine-level, 1,037-stall garage with 50,000 square feet of retail space in Boston, Mass., that was purchased with a partner in October. LAZ Parking is operating the facilities.

The other locations include: 425 stalls in San Francisco, Calif.

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1,154-stall garage in Chicago, Ill.

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320-stall garage in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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526-stall garage in Seattle, Wash.

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These acquisitions span all classes of parking assets, including garages, surface lots, airport parking facilities, and municipal concessions, toseeking liquidity, funds for redevelopment, and other projects have relied on LPRI to successfully complete seamless transactions at fair prices.

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taling more than $2.7 billion. Parking asset owners

Hitex International Group Expands into North America HITEX INTERNATIONAL GROUP,

process to suit the available workforce,

With dedicated, in-house research

a global provider of traffic safety and

speeding up highway works and reducing

and development facilities, Hitex is fo-

pavement marking solutions, launched

traffic congestion.

cused on delivering products that offer

Hitex North America. Headquartered in

“Hitex is committed to prioritizing

market-leading levels of durability and

Vancouver, Canada, Hitex North Amer-

the safety and well-being of all highway

safety performance. The company has

ica will provide customers throughout

users with ongoing programs to devel-

also made significant investments into

the U.S. and Canada with innovative,

op innovative and cost-effective traffic

developing more sustainable materi-

high-quality products ranging from pave-

safety and pavement marking solutions

als and processes to meet the chang-

ment marking paint and high-friction

that deliver consistently high levels of

ing and growing challenges of global

surfacing to high-performance formulas

quality and performance,” says Lloyd.

transport infrastructures.

for highway striping and decorative surfacing materials.

According to John Lloyd, managing director of Hitex Traffic Safety, “Hitex North America will provide customers across the USA and Canada with easy access to Hitex’s full product range. In addition, by offering the highest level of technical support, we aim to provide a

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real alternative to traditional suppliers in these key markets.”

One of the key products to be launched into this new market is the HiFlex Preformed range of thermoplastic markings. Quick and easy to install, HiFlex Preformed offers precision-cut road markings, letters, symbols, numbers, and logos and attained the highest-wear level classification of P7 (> 2 million wheel roll-overs) during test certification on the BASt wear simulator in Germany. The formulation ensures surface applied glass beads remain suspended throughout the heating process for maximum retroreflectivity and higher road safety attributes.

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Walker Parking Consultants Announce New Executives

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ALKER PARKING CONSULTANTS’ board of directors named Casey Wagner executive vice president and chief operating officer. A longtime senior vice president in Walker’s Houston, Texas, office, Wagner now oversees company-wide operations, including the production of design, consulting, and restoration services. He also sits on Walker’s board of directors.

Walker’s board has also named new vice presidents and principals in seven of the firm’s regional offices.

In their new positions, each of the appointees will manage his office’s operations and oversee all Walker projects in the region: Jim (Hakam) Dib, PE (Dubai, United Arab Emirates)—promoted to vice president for the UAE offices. He joined Walker in 2010 as director of the Middle East and North Africa region. An engineer with more than 30 years of experience, Dib is a University of Illinois at Chicago graduate and active in the Society of Value Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the UAE Society of Engineers, and the Gulf Society of Engineers.

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Rick Klein, PE (Ann Arbor, Mich.)—promoted to vice president for the Michigan offices. An engineer with nearly 25 years of design, restoration, and evaluation experience, Klein has overseen the design and restoration of dozens of parking facilities. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Klein is active in the American Concrete Institute, the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the Masonry Institute of Michigan.

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Al Bustamante, PE (Houston, Texas)—named principal in Walker’s Houston office. An engineer with more than 15 years of experience, Bustamante is an expert in the evaluation, testing, and design repairs of a variety of structural, architectural, and material distress-related projects. He is a graduate of Old Dominion University, and he earned a master’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

He is active in the American Concrete Institute, the American Institute of Steel Construction, the Foundation Performance Association, the Precast/ Prestressed Concrete Institute, and the Houston/ Gulf Coast Chapter of Structural Engineers Association of Texas.

Dan Kupferman, CAPP (Boston, Mass.)— named principal and is director of car park management systems. A parking professional with more than 20 years of experience, Kupferman’s responsibilities include researching, analyzing, and recommending solutions to parking issues through the performance of studies involving established and emerging parking technologies. A graduate of Eastern Nazarene College, he is active in the International Parking Institute, the New England Parking Council, and Toastmasters International.

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Brad Navarro, PE (Elgin, Ill.)— named principal and is director of operations for Walker’s two Illinois offices. He has 15 years of experience at Walker and oversees the production and quality assurance process for all projects produced by the offices. A graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he is active in the American Society of Engineers and the Urban Land Institute.

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Brian Preston, PE (Tampa, Fla.)— named principal and is the director of operations in Walker’s Tampa office. Preston joined Walker in 1996, and his expertise extends to all aspects of the structural design and analyses, specifications preparation, and field support of new and existing parking structures. He is a graduate of Drexel University and active in the International Facility Management Association.

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Steffen Turoff, AICP (Los Angeles, Calif.)— named principal and is the department head for Walker’s Consulting Resource Group. An expert on parking policy and planning in commercial districts and downtown centers, Turoff is a member of Walker’s internal Municipal Task Force. A graduate of the University of California-Berkeley, he also earned a master of arts in urban planning from the University of California-Los Angeles and a Charrette Planner Certificate, National Charrette Institute. Turoff is active in the International Parking Institute, the American Institute of Certified Planners, the International Downtown Association, the Urban Land Institute, and the California Redevelopment Association.

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Broward County Aviation Dedrie Registe Savannah Airport Commission Savannah International Airport Dawoud Stevenson Spokane International Airport Jeff Collins Sydney Airport Corporation Limited Craig Norton

COMMERCIAL OPERATOR The Parking Spot Kevin Shrier Liban Park sarl Joe Zakkour Cornerstone Parking Group, Inc. Sher Vang Frogparking Limited Shareena Sandbrook ABM Parking Services Scott Hutchison

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CHANCE Management Advisors, Inc. Barbara Chance Rich and Associates, Inc. David Rich

Gresham, Smith and Partners Andy Stoebner

City of Virginia Beach Robert Fries

IPS Group, Inc. Stephanie Simmons

Timothy Haahs & Associates, Inc. Timothy Haahs

City of New Orleans Richard Boseman

Olin Blue Cube POLY-CARB David Wilburn

City of Sarasota Mark Lyons

Toledo Ticket Company Roy Carter

Wake County, NC Government General Services Administration Dian Hovland

Data Ticket, Inc. Marjorie Fleming

Lexington & Fayette County Parking Authority Gary Means

Schweers Technologies Inc. Pam Arian

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University of Kansas Medical Center Kevin Rowald Cleveland Clinic Paul Dexheimer

Albany Parking Authority Matthew Peter

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Oobeo, Inc. Philip Crutchfield Vigilant Solutions Bill Geraghty

Valcom Linda Bishop

Watson Bowman Acme Corp.

James Anderson

Yale New Haven Hospital Rodney Slaughter

Smarking, Inc. Wen Sang

FlexPost, Inc. John Kandra

University of California Davis Medical Center Peter Tiberini

Tannery Creek Systems, Inc. Bill Franklin

Genetec Kerri-Anne Beech

FAAC International, Inc Mcshell Alvarez-Rivon

IPDisplays Anna Black

City of Eugene Jeff Petry

Spaceek, Inc. Michae l Bigbee

IntegraPark Ruth Beaman

City of Rochester, New York Laura Miller

Tecnorap USA Mario Baggio

Rydin Stephanie Frey

City of Tulsa Parking Authority Peyton Haralson

Alpha Technologies, Inc. Michael Smith

City of Tulsa Parking Authority Toby Moreland

EDC Corp. (AIMS) Charles Genung

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ADVERTISERS INDEX Amano McGann, Inc... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 amanomcgann.com | 612.331.2020

HySecurity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63 hysecurity.com | 800.226.0178

ParkingSoft. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 parkingsoft.com | 877.884.PARK

Carl Walker, Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64 carlwalker.com | 800.FYI.PARK

International Parking Design. . . . . . . . . . . . . .65 ipd-global.com | 877.437.7275

POM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 pom.com | 800.331.PARK

CHANCE Management Advisors. . . . . . . . . . .65 chancemanagement.com | 215.564.6464

IPS Group Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C3 ipsgroupinc.com | 858.404.0607

Relevant Solutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 relevantsolutions.com/intec/ipi 858.578.7887

Designa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C2 designausa.com | 888.262.9706

Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc.. . . . . . .11, 65 kimley-horn.com/parking | 919.653.6646

DESMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64 desman.com | 877.337.6260

Magnetic AutoControl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 ac-magnetic.com/usa | 321.635.8585

DPS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 dpstickets.com | 877.375.5355

MITI Manufacturing Co., Inc... . . . . . . . . . . . . .57 mitico.com | 866.545.6484

EDC Corporation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 aimsparking.com | 800.886.6316

Parking Vision Information Technologies Inc. (ParkIT).. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 parkit.io | 484.342.0200

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Rich & Associates, Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64 richassoc.com | 248.353.5080 Stego. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59 stegousa.com | 888.783.4611 Timothy Haahs & Associates, Inc. . . . . . .15, 64 timhaahs.com | 484.342.0200 Toledo Ticket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C4 toledoticket.com | 800.533.6620

Highlighted are IPI and IPI Allied State and Regional Association Events

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

2017 April 3–4

June 14–15

September 27–29

New England Parking Council Spring Conference & Tradeshow Boston, Mass. newenglandparkingcouncil.org

Southwest Parking and Transportation Association Reno, Nev. www.southwestparking.org

Pennsylvania Parking Association 2017 Annual Conference & Expo Erie, Pa. paparking.org

April 3–6

June 20

September 27–29

Texas Parking and Transportation Association Conference and Tradeshow Fort Worth, Texas texasparking.org

New York State Parking Association Summer at Hinerwadel’s Grove Syracuse, N.Y. nyspa.net

Carolinas Parking Association Annual Conference & Tradeshow Asheville, N.C. carolinasparking.org

April 6

July 11–13

October 10–13

National Sports Safety and Security Conference Orlando, Fla. NCS4.com

New York State Parking Association Silver Anniversary Albany, N.Y. nyspa.net

July 12–14

October 17–20

Pacific Intermountain Parking and Transportation Association Tacoma, Wash. pipta.org

Canadian Parking Association Annual Conference Banff, Alberta, Canada canadianparking.ca

August 15

October 25–27

New England Parking Council Golf Tournament Stow, Mass. newenglandparkingcouncil.org

Parking Association of the Virginias Annual Conference Williamsburg, Va. parking.org/calendar

September 11–13

November 15–17

Southwest Parking and Transportation Association Annual Fall Conference Las Vegas, Nev. southwestparking.org

California Public Parking Association Annual Conference Monterey, Calif. cppaparking.org

September 20–22

Florida Parking Association Conference & Tradeshow Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. flparking.org

Third New York State Parking Association Spring Traditions at the Glen Johnson City, N.Y. www.nyspa.net

April 13–15 Mid-South Transportation & Parking Association Annual Conference and Tradeshow Knoxville, Tenn. mstpa.org

April 26–28 Parking Association of Georgia Conference Buford, Ga. parkingassociationofgeorgia.com

April 28 Parking Association of the Virginias Spring Workshop Fredericksburg, Va. pavonline.org

May 21–24 2017 IPI Conference & Expo New Orleans, La. ipiconference.parking.org

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GPALs Summit at the European Parking Association Rotterdam, Netherlands parking.org/gpals

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