IPMI & Member News
By Michelle W. Jones, CMP Many of you will remember that the IPI Conference & Expo held earlier this year in Nashville oversold its sleeping room block until the hotel was completely sold out. While it’s great to fill our contracted sleeping room block, we don’t want our attendees having Read More »
IPI’s panel of experts answer a question in every issue of The Parking Professional. Here’s a recent question and some great answers—check out more here. We hear a lot about shared parking, especially in urban areas. How is it actually working? Leonard T. Bier, CAPP, JD Principal Bier Associates Shared Read More »
By Faith Altman The Lancaster County Amish are the oldest and largest Amish settlement in the U.S. The Old Order Amish generally live in the southern end of Lancaster County. When traveling through this area, you seem to step back in time and enjoy a much slower pace—the horse and Read More »
By Lauren Nelson It took a bit of persuasion but a beautiful mural in an usually overlooked area is becoming a tourist attraction. Garage placemaking is a trend sweeping the parking industry. Stimulated by the green garage movement Parksmart, the idea of placemaking helps people see the garage as part Read More »
The holiday shopping season has officially kicked off and that means more demand for parking at malls and in busy downtown areas. In Illinois, it also means a crackdown on illegal users of parking spaces reserved for the disabled. Secretary of State Jesse White announced stepped-up enforcement efforts throughout the Read More »
IPI members are invited to participate in a 10-minute questionnaire to provide data about parking garage and lot lighting inventory to the U.S. Department of Energy Solid-State Lighting Program. Data will be part of the next update to the Lighting Market Characterization, which provides an estimated lighting inventory of installed Read More »
By Donald Shoup The most emotional topic in transportation planning is parking. When it comes to parking, rational people quickly become emotional and staunch conservatives turn into ardent communists. Critical and analytic faculties seem to shift to a lower level when thinking about parking. Some people strongly support market prices—except Read More »
Traveling this Thanksgiving holiday? At least one travel analytics expert is warning U.S. drivers they may have a long road ahead. INRIX last week released its annual Thanksgiving traffic forecast, which says drivers may be less than thankful for all their neighbors on the road this year. According to the Read More »
By Helen Sullivan Parking Matters® to the National Association of University Business Officers (NACUBO). The cover story of a recent issue of their magazine, Business Officer, features an article chock-full of quotes and references to IPI members and our Emerging Trends in Parking Survey. The article conveys important pro-parking messages Read More »
By Paul Wessel An academic transportation journal from the University of California Transportation Center and the University of California Center on Economic Competitiveness argues that how we manage parking is as, or perhaps more, important than how much parking we have. Richard Willson, professor and chair of urban and regional Read More »
By Amy Zaid With all the new and upcoming technology in the parking industry you might think something simple wouldn’t be hard to find! In July 2016, we automated an event-driven garage in Houston, Texas. We primarily intended to increase revenue, reduce costs, and enhance the tenant and visitor parking Read More »
By Brian Shaw, CAPP As the U.S. attempts to heal and come together following a contentious and acrimonious presidential election, the parking industry offers an inspiring example of how two opposing sides can reconcile and come together. You may remember a few years ago when the United States Green Building Read More »
