Home » Parking & Security Operations » Parking Management Systems Parking demand used to be predictable. Faculty parked in faculty lots Monday through Friday. Students arrived in the morning and left in the afternoon. Visitors went to visitor parking. The permit structure reflected a stable, repeating pattern that didn’t change much from semester to semester.…
Home » Parking & Security Operations » Parking Management Systems Most writing about parking management systems focuses on the technology — what features exist, how they’re built, what data they produce. Less attention goes to what it actually looks like to run a parking operation day-to-day once a connected system is in place. That operational…
Home » Parking & Security Operations » Parking Management Systems Most software conversations about parking focus on features. Does it support virtual permits? Can it do LPR? Is there an online payment portal? These are reasonable questions. But they’re the wrong first question. The right first question is: how is the system built? Specifically —…
Home » Parking & Security Operations » Parking Management Systems There’s a version of parking management that most operations know well. Permits are sold through one system. Enforcement officers work off a separate tool — or a spreadsheet, or a list exported that morning. Payments go through a payment processor that doesn’t talk to either.…
Home » Parking & Security Operations » Parking Management Systems There’s a version of parking management that most operations know well. Permits are sold through one system. Enforcement officers work off a separate tool — or a spreadsheet, or a list exported that morning. Payments go through a payment processor that doesn’t talk to either.…
