IPMI & Member News
By Michelle W. Jones, CMP I think autumn is the warmest time. Not because of high temperatures outside, but because I find it to be the most heartwarming time of year. The faint smell of smoke from the neighbor’s chimney, vibrantly colored leaves crunching under your feet, chilly football games, Read More »
By Victor A. Hill, MPA, CAPP Offering child car seat inspections is a great way to promote your services and build partnerships. Parking and transportation operations are ideal locations because the facilities are —at the risk of stating the obvious—ideal places to park cars and assist families. Our university began Read More »
It’s a not-unheard-of refrain: I’d happily take mass transit to work but I can’t find a place to park at the station. In Seattle, the local transit authority and a parking company have teamed up to solve that problem. Sound Transit, a commuter train service in the Central Puget Sound Read More »
By Mark A. Vergenes Last week, we talked about financial planning for non-U.S. citizens. If you’re in a marriage between an U.S. citizen and a non-U.S citizen, you may face additional wealth transfer challenges that require advance planning: Estate taxes work differently for non-citizens. When two U.S. citizens are married, Read More »
Parking garages have become popular sites for public art installations and for good reason—they’re a natural fit. But in a new twist, a garage in San Francisco hosted the community for a day of interactive, highly creative fun to introduce its newest art installation. The Moscone Center Garage introduced a Read More »
By Cindy Campbell Last week, I boarded a regional flight headed to Houston. If you’ve ever been on a small regional jet, you’re able to envision the cramped passenger seating arrangements. I buckled into my first-row seat and settled in to read my emails. The solo flight attendant was busy Read More »
By Mark A. Vergenes “Foreign national” is a broad term that includes (from the perspective of the U.S.) both resident aliens (non-U.S. citizens who have established a legal domicile in the U.S. and have no intent to leave) and non-resident aliens (non-U.S. citizens who have not established domicile in the Read More »
We fell in love with the garage at Katwijk aan Zee, the Netherlands, the first time we laid eyes on it. So did a lot of other people; for the first time in memory, a parking garage—this parking garage—was named the Dutch Building of the Year. It’s an amazing 663-space Read More »
By Zachary Cook Maintaining cleanliness and equipment on the grounds of parking facilities is a basic and important aspect of what we do. Maintenance checklists are a tool many use to guide staff to complete daily, weekly, and monthly tasks, but are they enough? Handing frontline staff paper lists or tasks Read More »
By Rachel Yoka, CAPP, LEED AP BD+C It’s funny how often parking comes up as a topic, even among the Labor Day barbecue crowd. We were talking summer trips and vacations. My mom treated the whole family to a Caribbean cruise a few years ago (way to go, Mom!) and Read More »
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 »
By L. Dennis Burns, CAPP I recently came across a document that illustrated how far we have come in the evolution of shared mobility resources and options. This map was created for the Silicon Valley Mobility as a Service project, where mobility aggregators integrate various services. It maps out the Read More »
