Accredited Parking Organization (APO) is a designation for parking, transportation, and mobility organizations that have achieved a comprehensive standard of excellence.
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The International Parking & Mobility Institute (IPMI) is the largest community for parking, transportation, and mobility professionals in the world. We welcome you to our community, where you will have access to best-in-class learning, a powerful network, and tools you need for success.
Mobi the Parking Unicorn is the IPMI Parking & Mobility AI Assistant, ready to help you find answers to your most pressing parking, transportation, and mobility questions. Mobi has been trained using the valuable content, resources, and data that IPMI offers its members, and can help your parking and mobility operation thrive.
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IPMI members maximize their access to our unparalleled network and community of parking, transportation, and mobility professionals and organizations.
With cutting edge-research and publications, members gain the information and expertise they need to streamline and advance their operations.
Learning opportunities include in-person events like the annual Conference & Expo and Leadership Summit, live virtual events, a comprehensive library of on-demand courses, and certificates and credentials.
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Got Something to Say? We Want to Hear It. Parking and mobility are changing fast, and the best ideas aren’t coming from the sidelines. They’re coming from you: the people building, operating, rethinking, challenging, and transforming our industry every day.
Join staff and current APOs in exploring the program. Discuss the application process, best practices for success in achieving the designation, and the positive effects that APOs have realized as a result of their accreditation.
Successful transformation, whether operational, technological, or cultural, depends on one thing above all else: communication. In times of significant change, leaders must balance strategy and empathy, ensuring that every message, decision, and adjustment keeps their teams and customers aligned toward a shared vision.
In-Parking, a leader in AI-driven parking intelligence solutions, is pleased to announce a new partnership with Zephire, an innovative monthly parking management platform designed to streamline operations, automate workflows, and enhance the customer experience. The partnership brings together Zephire’s comprehensive monthly parking management capabilities with the In-Parking SIGHT business intelligence platform, creating new opportunities for parking owners and operators to better understand their operations, identify revenue opportunities, and make data-driven decisions.
The International Parking & Mobility Institute (IPMI) is pleased to announce the release of three new books written by IPMI members, developed to advance knowledge, strengthen professional practices, and address important challenges across the parking, transportation, and mobility industries. IPMI provided publication assistance for all three titles, which are now available.
Portier, a global provider of intelligent parking guidance solutions, has completed the installation of its Portier SONIC parking guidance system at Turning Stone Resort Casino’s new South Parking Center in Verona, New York. The project was completed in partnership with construction manager The Hayner Hoyt Corporation and electrical contractor Bruce Electric.
Professional Development
Accredited Parking Organization (APO) is a designation for parking, transportation, and mobility organizations that have achieved a comprehensive standard of excellence.
IPMI offers industry-leading certification that places those who earn the designations as the leaders of the profession. The PTMP® credential is respected worldwide as the leading parking and mobility credential.
The IPMI Conference & Expo brings together professionals representing every level of experience and segment of the parking, transportation, and mobility industry. The event delivers four days of exceptional education, the largest display of parking- and mobility-specific technology and innovations, networking, and the opportunity to connect with a global community – to advance the industry.
Employees are an organization’s most valuable asset. An investment in staff training and education brings a high rate of return in job performance and satisfaction. IPMI offers custom, agency-specific trainings on these topics for your staff. Our training team is made up of industry veterans who can help your organization soar.
Parking Enforcement & Compliance Professional (PECP®) is the next step in your career path as a parking enforcement professional.
Virtual education includes live online training in the form of webinars, Frontline training , and instructor-led learning courses. IPMI also offers a robust online library for on-demand learning.
Enhance your visibility and increase your bottom line with IPMI’s publications, platforms, and events.
Work with the IPMI team to create a customized package to reach your target audience and exceed your sales goals.
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Consumers increasingly expect convenience in every part of their lives. They order food from their phones, check into hotels digitally, use mobile boarding passes, and pay for products without cash. Parking follows the same path.
Why High-Quality Data Is Essential for Parking Guidance and Wayfinding
Presenters discussed FIFA’s first-time operational control of venues and the coordination required across venues, transit, and city officials. Key strategies included early parking sales, multi-channel promotion, data-informed planning, and real-time monitoring. Examples from San Francisco highlighted how operations vary by event, while World Cup challenges with resellers and fraud reinforced the need for better coordination between parking operators and secondary marketplaces. The session emphasized early pre-sales, flexible communication, and alignment across teams.
Walk the arrivals level at any major U.S. airport at 6 p.m. and you’ll see the same scene: stopped vehicles, hazard lights blinking, and drivers craning their necks looking for a passenger still at baggage claim. The curb isn’t jammed only because too many cars arrive. It’s jammed because too many cars stay.
The growth of electric vehicles is creating a major opportunity—and challenge—for the parking industry. Parking facilities have historically been designed around one primary function: storing vehicles. Electric vehicles are changing that model by making parking facilities part of the vehicle charging ecosystem.
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