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Rising COVID Rates Transform Hospital Parking Garages

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Photo: Renown Health

With COVID-19 rates spiking across the U.S., hospitals are again transforming garages into triage or patient care units. One of the first is Renown Health in Reno, Nev., which turned an entire garage into a COVID patient care unit that opened late last week.

The 10-day transformation from parking to hospital cost $10 million and can treat more than 1,400 patients. COVID patients will be moved to the garage unit when they are stable and improving. As of the weekend, three patients were being treated in the garage, but Nevada is experiencing a large spike in cases.

Read more about it here. Are you seeing an uptick in COVID efforts involving parking? Let us know on Forum and download our comprehensive, industry specific Roadmap to Recovery resource. And don’t forget to stay connected with IPMI.

Online Instructor Led Learning: Wicked Problem Solving – May 13, 2021

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REGISTER HERE.

You’ll notice that we have launched your new member portal.  If you have questions or need assistance, please contact info@parking-mobility.org. 

Non-Members may attend for a $300 registration fee.  NOT A MEMBER? JOIN TODAY.

Wicked Problem Solving

In this intermediate-level course, industry leaders will be provided wicked problems and practice how to solve them. Learn what makes a problem wicked. The easy problems are solved, the ones left for executives are wicked.

Objectives:

  • Learn about your approach to problem-solving and those of others.
  • Practice identifying the three aspects that make a problem wicked and recognize steps on how to solve them.
  • Practice identifying wicked problems given current real-life scenarios that the industry is facing due to COVID-19.
  • Identify the people problems that impede solutions.

This is a two-day course.  Offers 4 CAPP points or .4 CEU’s toward application or recertification.

Instructor:

Dr. Andrea Hornett

Andrea Hornett taught strategy at Penn State and is retired from the business faculty at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Andy researched virtual teams at Xerox, earning her doctorate at George Washington University. She has more than a hundred presentations and peer-reviewed publications in organizational problem solving and learning, leadership, ethics, and knowledge transfer. In her extensive business career, she developed and consulted on global strategies and organizational solutions (e.g. DuPont Pharmaceuticals, The GAP, National Alliance of Business, Manufacturers’ Association of the Delaware Valley).

Online Instructor Led Learning: Wicked Problem Solving – May 11, 2021

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REGISTER HERE.

You’ll notice that we have launched your new member portal.  If you have questions or need assistance, please contact info@parking-mobility.org. 

Non-Members may attend for a $300 registration fee.  NOT A MEMBER? JOIN TODAY.

Wicked Problem Solving

In this intermediate-level course, industry leaders will be provided wicked problems and practice how to solve them. Learn what makes a problem wicked. The easy problems are solved, the ones left for executives are wicked.

Objectives:

  • Learn about your approach to problem-solving and those of others.
  • Practice identifying the three aspects that make a problem wicked and recognize steps on how to solve them.
  • Practice identifying wicked problems given current real-life scenarios that the industry is facing due to COVID-19.
  • Identify the people problems that impede solutions.

This is a two-day course.  Offers 4 CAPP points or .4 CEU’s toward application or recertification.

Instructor:

Dr. Andrea Hornett

Andrea Hornett taught strategy at Penn State and is retired from the business faculty at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Andy researched virtual teams at Xerox, earning her doctorate at George Washington University. She has more than a hundred presentations and peer-reviewed publications in organizational problem solving and learning, leadership, ethics, and knowledge transfer. In her extensive business career, she developed and consulted on global strategies and organizational solutions (e.g. DuPont Pharmaceuticals, The GAP, National Alliance of Business, Manufacturers’ Association of the Delaware Valley).

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When Your Community Speaks, Listen

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By Matthew Hulme, CAPP, MPA

When meeting with community partners such as business councils, neighborhood advocacy groups, and resident coalitions, I don’t often hear, “We’d love to see more parking tickets issued around here.” So I tend to take notice when I do. Last time, my hope was that my constant blustering about how important effective parking enforcement is to the community was finally taking hold. Ultimately, the primary complaint prompting the request for heavier handed enforcement was related to a much bigger problem: criminal activity associated with loud parties going on late into the night. I know this is not just a problem in my city, as many areas are experiencing the same types of unruly parties, particularly with the Coronavirus shuttering typical gathering places.

If you think this is merely a police issue, you are likely wrong. Non-local party participants require parking just like any other customer. With this in mind, parking managers need to work collaboratively with the police to address these customers in a way that may be counter-intuitive.

The specifics will vary by the particular situation, but we are working in several ways to assist our police department in curbing activities that are detrimental to neighborhood quality-of-life. Specifically, we are helping facilitate additional “No Parking” zones and signage, focusing enforcement efforts on safety related violations such as double parking and blocking alleys, and partnering with the police neighborhood liaison unit to safely work together on parties that are causing disturbances. Time will tell how effective our collective efforts will be in curbing troublesome activities, but we are showing the neighborhood that we have heard their collective voices.

Matthew Hulme, CAPP, MPA, is parking services supervisor with the City of Cincinnati.

NEPC University Forum, Return to Campus: Pandemic Response for Fall Term

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Return to Campus: Pandemic Response for Fall Term

Join us as our panel of experts, in university parking, transportation and commuter services, explain how top universities in New England have handled opening and students returning to campus for fall semester during Covid-19.

Panelist Include:

  • Jim Barr, Director of Transportation and Parking Services, University of Vermont
  • Jim Sarafin, Director of Parking & CommuterChoice, Harvard University
  • Carleia Lighty, Director, Transportation and Brown Card Services, Brown University
  • Ed Bebyn, Director, Yale University Parking and Transit, Yale University

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Granular Choice, Reduced Parking Demand, and Delighted Customers

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By Chris Lechner, CAPP

UCLA has long been a leader in reducing drive-alone rates. Historically, attention has been focused on subsidizing alternative transportation products, but parking policy plays a key role. Though often overlooked, daily discounted parking is crucial support strategy to meeting transportation demand management goals.

UCLA has been able to expand the use of alternatives, lower the drive-alone rate, and maximize the utility of a limited and shrinking parking inventory by selling parking by the day to faculty and staff at a discount from the public daily rate. This flexibility enables customers to drive when they need to, and do something else when they can. Daily discounts remove the incentives of all-you-can-park permits, incentivizing customers to “Drive Less and Save More.”

Recently, UCLA has been able to maximize this transportation demand management strategy by utilizing virtual permits. This has removed sign-up requirements and enabled pre-tax payroll deduction as a payment method. Additionally, the operational flexibility provided by this approach has provided frameworks and flexibility to respond to the impacts of Covid-19.

In an IPMI webinar later today, I’ll lay out the landscape at UCLA, review the history of our daily discounted parking program, highlight some of the operational flexibility afforded to us via this program, and finally review how this has allowed us to respond to the pandemic. I hope you’ll join us.

Chris Lechner, CAPP, is parking data analytics and strategic projects manager at UCLA.

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Acting with Purpose and Kindness

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By Rachel Yoka, CAPP, LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP

In a normal year, it takes discipline to set goals and stay focused on the steps you need to take to achieve them. This year has thrown us all for one heck of a curve. It’s easy to mindlessly scroll through 2020 memes (and there really are some great ones, so I recommend checking out a few).

Disruption caused by the pandemic has forced every parking, transportation, and mobility organization to revisit their entire operation. Our organization is no different. The level of disruption we have all experienced is challenging and painful. Yet, it can spur and advance innovation and positive change.

We decided as a team to respond to the ongoing crisis with intention, clarity, and kindness.

The intention behind our stay connected effort is to provide numerous resources, including Parking & Mobility magazine, frontline trainings through December, industry Shoptalks, and on-demand courses and webinars to train industry professionals.  Every one of these resources is available to IPMI members for free. 

Our Roadmap to Recovery initiative exemplifies our approach to clarity. We had to get crystal clear on what our members and the industry need, right now. We asked and you answered. We’ve heard from every segment of the industry on how they have had to adapt and stretch their organization to meet new demands.  Our newest edition of the special publication Roadmap to Recovery is available now–download it today and dive into survey results and articles by industry experts.

Kindness comes easy to our community (or at least it appears to!). Your willingness to share your experience and insight with your colleagues and lend a hand is absolutely extraordinary.  It’s apparent in our volunteers every single day. It’s evident from the generosity of our Frontline Training instructors, who freely give of their time to keep your team members up to date on essential skills.  It’s every one of our speakers showing up at the Leadership Summit  this week to offer their perspectives.  I could go on, but this would become a full feature article in the magazine.  For your kindness, thank you.  We are all that much better for it.

If you have ever had an inclination to volunteer, write, or get involved–this is your year.  Get off the sidelines and give of your gifts to our community.  Reach out to me and we will find you the right opportunity to do so.

Here’s a five-minute ask: We still need to hear from you, it’s critical to our success as a community. Here’s how you can do that:

We look forward to hearing from you–stay well and stay connected.

Rachel Yoka, CAPP, LEED AP BD&C, WELL AP, is IPMI’s vice president of program development.