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Parking and Transit-oriented Development: Featured Article from IPMI’s Parking & Mobility Magazine
June 18, 2021
The Orientation Toward Transit: Has COVID cooled the hot market of parking and transit-oriented development? By Jim Zullo, CAPP As we look ahead to life in a post-COVID world, there will certainly be some level of return to commuting, transit, and parking normalcy. But are the benefits that have traditionally Read More »
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Transit-oriented Development After COVID: What’s Next?
June 3, 2021
For more than 20 years, transit-oriented development (TOD) has been a desired destination for people to live, work, and play. The opportunity to reside in a vibrant locale with convenient access to restaurants, shopping, employment, and alternative mobility options has been a preferred lifestyle for many, especially since the great Read More »
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McCarthy Celebrates Dublin Transit Center Parking Garage Opening
July 1, 2024
McCarthy Celebrates Dublin Transit Center Parking Garage Opening Project exemplifies innovation in community partnerships, bringing first design-build delivery to Alameda County since 2017 Dublin, CA. – McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., recently celebrated the grand opening of the new Dublin Transit Center Parking Garage, marking a significant milestone in the Read More »
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eleven-x Awarded Major North American Smart Parking Contract by Arlington County, Virginia
February 21, 2023
eleven-x Awarded Major North American Smart Parking Contract by Arlington County, Virginia The company will deploy its award-winning eXactpark solution across the County’s commercial district to improve the parking experience and reduce vehicle emissions. Waterloo, Ontario – eleven-x, a global leader providing complete, high-performance, wireless IoT and Smart City Read More »
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Putting Places Worth Visiting in Parking Priorities
November 10, 2021
Traditional cities are typically found on and around transport routes–rivers, roads and railways. They occupy strategic locations for trade, security, crossings, and meeting points. Streets/roads define the city/urban form as both paths and edges. In the past few centuries, attempts to fix the city have focused on the restructuring of Read More »
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Member News: Leading Parking Engineering and Architectural Firm THA Consulting Kicks Off 2021 with a New Leadership Team, a New Brand, and a New Name
February 5, 2021
Leading Parking Engineering and Architectural Firm THA Consulting Kicks Off 2021 with a New Leadership Team, a New Brand, and a New Name February 3, 2021 TimHaahs rebrands as THA Consulting and industry veterans assume new leadership roles at firm. (PHILADELPHIA, PA) — Timothy Haahs & Associates (TimHaahs) – a Read More »
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Midwestern Values in Transportation
December 6, 2019
By Shawn Conrad, CAE At a recent IPMI-hosted event focused on parking and mobility professionals in the Midwestern region of the U.S., we heard from many business and transportation thought-leaders–experts who know parking management techniques and technologies and current trends. A presentation from the Verdis Group highlighted consumer research from Read More »
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Member News: WGI Paves Over Expectations; Accolades and Growth Already Exceed Last Year
October 1, 2019
(West Palm Beach, FL – September 30, 2019) National design and professional services firm WGI, a leader in technology-based solutions for the construction of public infrastructure and real estate development, has been in overdrive for the first three quarters of 2019, exceeding 2018 in the expansion of its employees, services, Read More »
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Case Study: Putting the Pieces Together
By Cali Yang A winning combination of features makes a transit-oriented development work. THE WALNUT CREEK TRANSIT VILLAGE IN WALNUT CREEK, CALIF., is an urban mixed-use development that includes studio apartments, retail, restaurants, and public plazas. This is one of the first of many new Transit Villages being planned by Read More »
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Top-tier Garage Spaces a Hot Commodity in New York City
September 16, 2019
In an era of tightening parking maximums for development and great calls for transit-oriented development and walkable cities, private parking has gone upscale in New York City and developers and real estate agents say it’s in hot demand at record-high prices. The New York Times this weekend ran a story Read More »
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Member News: Coalition Of 59 Groups Backs Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Governors for Developing Transportation & Climate Initiative
July 30, 2019
TRANSPORTATION NEWS: COALITION OF 59 GROUPS VOICES SUPPORT FOR 12 GOVERNORS AND MAYOR OF WASHINGTON, D.C. DEVELOPING REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION & CLIMATE INITIATIVE POLICY “Our Transportation Future” coalition members – including environmental, health, scientific and business groups – issue sign-on letter supporting Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States’ effort to develop a regional Read More »
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Making an Entrance — and an EXIT
March 20, 2019
By Michael Pendergrass, AIA, LEED AP; Matt Davis; and Taylor Kim. AIA, LEED AP WHEN WE THINK OF A PARKING STRUCTURE as simply a store place for cars, it’s easy to see it as an end point; its purpose and function are fulfilled once a car is parked. However, the Read More »
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Member News: WGI Welcomes New Mobility and Smart City Innovator Expert Lisa Nisenson
March 13, 2019
(WEST PALM BEACH, FL – March 13, 2019) WGI CEO David Wantman proudly announces that national thought leader Lisa Nisenson joined the firm as vice president of new mobility and connected communities. This addition to the team solidifies WGI’s leadership in helping communities harness the benefits of emerging mobility options Read More »
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Thinking Ahead
November 1, 2016
Thinking Ahead By Sanjay Pandya, PE Facilitating immediate or future adaptive reuse of parking structures. Technology and advances in society are affecting current thinking related to mobility and directly affecting traffic, transportation, and parking. What will the future hold? Will parking demands increase, decrease, or simply change? What will become of Read More »
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Ahead of the Train
October 28, 2016
By Robert Ferrin and Brett Wood, PE, CAPP Building a parking program from the ground up. What if you could build a parking program from scratch? Where would you start? What would your central tenets be? How would you integrate the wealth of knowledge gained by parking professionals during the past Read More »
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White House Takes Aim at Parking Requirements
September 30, 2016
A paper released by the White House Monday was supposed to be about housing but got attention—a lot of attention—for focusing solidly on parking requirements levied on developers. “Parking requirements generally impose an undue burden on housing development, particularly for transit-oriented or affordable housing,” reads part of the “Housing Development Read More »
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Playing a Critical Role
January 20, 2016
Todd Litman is founder and executive director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute, an independent research organization dedicated to developing innovative solutions to transport problems. There, he works to expand the range of effects and options considered in transportation decision-making, improve evaluation methods, and make specialized technical concepts accessible to Read More »
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Parking Plus
By June Williamson Parking has been an essential part of suburban development in North America since the Ford Model T was introduced in 1911. More than a century has passed, and it is high time for parking needs to be rethought, just as automobiles themselves and the fuels they run Read More »
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The Real Value of Parking
January 15, 2016
By Jim Zullo, CAPP As most people who read The Parking Professional understand, being a parking professional is a particularly unique experience. We have all faced the blank stares of family members, former classmates, and even people on the street when they hear of our chosen career path for the Read More »
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Reforming Parking Policies
January 12, 2016
By Valerie Knepper Parking policies are emerging as a key and sometimes volatile issue in land use development and transportation planning efforts. A growing group of public and private interests are seeking changes in parking policies, pointing to problems such as inefficient usage of limited land, negative economic effects of Read More »
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Press Release, 5/7/14, Groundbreaking New Book on Sustainable Parking
January 2, 2016
Groundbreaking New Book on Sustainable Parking Design and Management Advances “Green” Parking Solutions Sustainable Parking Design and Management: A Practitioner’s Handbook provides theory, application, and case studies from parking architects, planners, and LEED-certified parking experts (Alexandria, VA – May 6) A comprehensive new book, now available for pre-order from the Read More »
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Moving On Up
January 20, 2016
By Henry Wallmeyer Does the International Parking Institute (IPI) take itself too seriously? Perhaps its recent move 40 miles north to Alexandria, Va., after 25 years in Fredericksburg was the ultimate practice-what-you-preach—after all, the association says that parking is about moving people forward. Or was the motivation a famous quote Read More »
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Greening Before Design
January 19, 2016
By Brett Wood, CAPP Parking’s green movement has largely focused on the facility: How can we squeeze out the most energy efficiency through lighting, operations, and design? I have seen numerous presentations and publications documenting power savings, cost savings, and innovations in interior and exterior design that highlight and promote Read More »
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Parking Pricing & TDM
January 12, 2016
By Kurt Matthews Parking and traffic demand management (TDM): are they friend, foe, or partners? In Boulder, Colo., we look at these two concepts as elements of a larger notion that we call access management. Properly managed parking supports TDM by helping control and, at the same time, ensure access Read More »