Europe The World – What’s
Happening Out There?
Presented by Peter Guest, Parking Today’s European Consultant
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Europe The World –
What’s Happening Out
There?
Peter Guest
There’s a question at the end
&
a prize!
Topics
The Car Park
Lighting
Bay Guidance and Finding
your Car
Electric Vehicles, again
Park and Ride
Payment Systems, New Ideas
Smart Stuff
Disabled/enforcement
Sensors an alternative View
Camera Cars ?
Car Park Structures
Steel is increasingly King
• Lightweight
• Open
• Recyclable!
But Concrete Wins the Day this Year:
Heathrow T2
Steel Exteriors
Put a Lid on It!
• It Keeps the weather
out
• It reduces
maintenance costs
• It allows top deck
use during ice and
snow
• It extends structure
life
Put a Lid on It!
AND…
• You can use it to
generate power!
Car Park Lighting
We don’t do do LED!
Car Park Lighting
LED Lighting had not taken off in the UK a year ago, even
although companies offered good deals.
Now National Car Parks, one of the UK’s biggest car park
operators has entered into a deal with a supplier to re-light all 400
plus of their existing car parks with LED
Car Finder
•Above - bay LPR cameras
•Every Vehicle read every 30 secs
•Drivers enter licence plate on car
finder screen
•Driver given, floor, aisle and bay
number.
“Lost” vehicles found in minutes
with partial description, its
technology that works!
Electric Vehicle Charging Points
Still being installed, often as
planning requirement
Still hardly ever seen one used!
One car Park in central London,
system available but only to drivers
that have joined scheme before
they arrive
Payment Systems
Barrier
Ticketless
systems
In use but not exactly conquering the world, but
EMV – Wave & Pay
EMV:
Been there, done that, got the T Shirt...
Wave & Pay:
Low Value transactions £20 or less
Revalidate with a PIN
The Starbucks Solution
On the parking radar
Smart Stuff
• Flexibility.
• Unlimited / unrestricted possibilities of
integration with any platform
• Parking in the Cloud – minimal
hardware
• APNR – Automatic Plate Number
Recognition
Bay Sensors on-Street, for Enforcement
used as a part of a guidance
Most bay sensors
system. They have proved problematical in terms
of accuracy for compliance related tasks
However one system is now used Successfully in
Australia
• System detects and monitors vehicle
movements
• Magnetometer based
• Seven year battery life
• Processing in sensors, not via data-link
• Alerts passing patrol to potential offenders
• Successfully processing c2m violations a year
Park & Ride
How to deal with City Centre Space Issues, & Traffic Congestion
• Build Parking on edge of City
• Downtown reached with accessible high quality/high frequency buses
• Bus-on-stand philosophy
• Bus priority/bus only streets for speed
• Integrated fares: bus + Parking, one ticket
• Added value options
Currency:
Why can’t you do Coins and banknotes?
Disabled Parking Provision – Abu Dhabi
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The column has an LPR Camera
Each vehicle parking has its
LPR read and checked against a
database of vehicles belonging
to disabled drivers
If its on the list OK
If its not on the list the Police
issue a citation automatically
Doesn’t work if disability not
linked to licence plate
The European Blue Badge
Criteria:
•Government mobility allowance
•Registered blind
•War Pensioner's Mobility Supplement (WPMS)
•Armed Forces Compensation Scheme - inability to
walk or very considerable difficulty in walking.
•Cannot walk further than 50 metres
•Has a severe disability and is unable to operate all
or some types of parking meter
•A child who, must always be accompanied by bulky
medical equipment or may need treatment
Virtual Parking Bays
ACTIV8 virtual bay booking system
driver pre-books geo-coded “virtual” bay in a “no parking area using onboard computer.
Wardens notified time and place on hand-held unit.
Driver routed to “virtual” bay and parks with temporary timed dispensation
and no fear of enforcement action.
Used for delivery Trucks and disabled drivers to pre-book parking place/
assistance
No Progress since 2014
Virtual Permits – beginning to happen
•Hard-Copy
permits:
•Can be Lost / Damaged / Stolen /Counterfeited
•Permit Changes are time consuming
•Costly to issue and manage
•Blank permits have value and require security
•Virtual Permits cannot be:
•Lost / Damaged / Stolen /Counterfeited
•Permit Changes can be instant
•Permit cancelations can be instant
•Issue and Administration costs are minimal
•Can be highly flexible
•BUT requires real-time checking capability
The Westminster Experiment
The Westminster Experiment
Enforcement
Officers are now “Parking
Westminster
Marshalls
They:
• Advise/educate a motorist
• Guide a customer to a legal parking place – using
bay sensor information if available
• Move a vehicle on
• Issue an information notice
• Issue a warning notice
Results:
• Reduced confrontation
• Lower penalty revenues
• Higher meter revenues
• Greater public acceptance
• Higher levels of job satisfaction
CCTV /ANPR
has legislated
to ban in the UK:
Government
Except for:
School entrances
Bus lanes, moving traffic offences
Used in The Netherlands, Spain, Australia for parking
offence detection
Head Cams /Camera Badges
Parking Awards
• The British Parking Awards are an annual industry feel good
event whose impact is to promote our business.
• More Entries
• Positive media response (mostly)
• Impacting on how we do business
• Impacting on attitudes to quality:
And Finally
Remember Him?
Richard III, is often described as the last English Monarch to die in
battle
My Question Today is:
How many others shared this fate?