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Free Online Shoptalk: Data-driven Parking and Mobility Management Moderated by Kevin White, AICP, Walker Consultants

Data-driven Parking and Mobility Management Moderated by Kevin White, AICP, Walker Consultants


May 5, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm ET

To register, click here. 

Free to all industry professionals. 

Join IPMI for our next online Shoptalk addressing the parking, transportation, and mobility industry’s response and recovery planning. Open to all, join us for discussions centered on best practices, next steps, and the challenges ahead.


Shoptalk Summary 

From its evolution as a buzzword to part of daily operations, data has grown into a critical part of both regular business and planning for the future—and no more so than in a time of great change for parking and mobility. We’ll talk about how parking organizations are collecting, analyzing, and using data; what kinds of data they’re using; and how they’ve set up their staff to collect, analyze, and use data for right-now and the future—practical solutions and demystifying data-driven parking management. We’ll also talk about several case studies from real organizations and have an open, roundtable discussion with questions and answers.

Submit your questions and thoughts for the discussion on the registration page.


Kevin White, AICP, Walker Consultants

Kevin White is a parking and mobility planner and consultant for Walker Consultants based in their Minneapolis, Minn., office. He specializes in parking and mobility planning, curbside management, and transportation demand management, with a focus on policy and user behavior and integrating all modes of transportation. Kevin is passionate about solving site circulation and parking challenges on campuses and in cities by integrating a blend of infrastructure, program, and policy strategies that promote access for all types of users. He strives to create planning processes that are meaningful and informative, with a focus on stakeholder transparency and the use of data and visualizations to tell a story, generate ideas, and gain consensus.

Free Online Shoptalk: Touchless Technology: The Latest Updates and Case Studies. Moderated by David Hoyt

Touchless Technology: The Latest Updates and Case Studies. Moderated by David Hoyt


April 7, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm ET

To register, click here. 

Free to all industry professionals.

Join IPMI for our next online Shoptalk addressing the parking, transportation, and mobility industry’s response and recovery planning. Open to all, join us for discussions centered on best practices, next steps, and the challenges ahead.


Shoptalk Summary 

Challenges sometimes present opportunity and that’s definitely true in the parking and mobility industry. Touchless technology saw huge demand and growth in 2020 due to COVID-19 and a desire to put patrons’ minds at ease as they made their way through cities, campuses, medical facilities, airports, and other parking areas.

Join IPMI members to hear case studies of touchless technology implementation, learn where the technology is going (and how far it’s come), share your own successes and challenges, and ask questions of our experts.

Submit your questions and thoughts for the discussion on the registration page.


David Hoyt, SVP, Sales and Account Management, ParkMobile

David Hoyt, a parking and transportation professional with more than 20 years of expertise, manages sales and partnerships at ParkMobile.  Prior to joining Parkmobile, he was national account manager for T2 Systems, responsible for sales and client relations in the Southeast U.S., Caribbean, and strategic accounts. David began his parking career with Standard Parking, where he worked for 13 years and served as vice president of operations, managing the company’s portfolio of municipal and private parking operations throughout the State of Florida.

 

Morphing Our Mobility Mindset

People boarding a GRCW train at night.By Casey Jones, CAPP

In October 2018, the International Parking Institute changed its name to include mobility. “Our broadened name signifies changes in the industry and what is happening in the larger sphere, where mobility is emerging as a more inclusive term for the expanding role of parking professionals,” said IPMI CEO Shawn Conrad, CAE, at the time of the change.“We feel the new name provides an umbrella that incorporates parking and mobility and thus will better serve our members by ensuring future opportunities for growth.”

To most of us, mobility pertains specifically to mode of travel and it’s now fully expected that parking professionals also deliver or actively support bicycle, scooter, and public transportation alternatives to driving. The more we do of this, the more we achieve the growth our sage friend Mr. Conrad talked about a few years ago. As much progress as we’ve made in name and in action, I suggest that it’s possible our mindset about mobility hasn’t changed enough and should expand further to fully embrace our role in promoting social and economic mobility.

One incredible example comes from Portland, Ore., where an open design competition was held to generate ideas about how to repurpose old light rail cars. Rail cars originally put in service in 1986 were headed to the dump when Portland State University and the city’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability stepped in to launch the MAX (Metro Area Express) Reuse Design Challenge to find a way to repurpose the equipment and serve underserved communities. Read more about the project that aims at “reconstruct the models to offer food, hygiene, and therapy for these experiencing homelessness” here.

Our definition of mobility and our role in promoting it need to expand to include more than just modes of travel. We have an opportunity to play an expanding role in addressing social and economic issues through creativity and a commitment to service. We don’t always need to lead these efforts but accepting responsibility for more than just transportation solutions will allow us to grow and will better serve the communities within which we work.

Casey Jones, CAPP, is senior parking and mobility planner with DESMAN.

MSNBC: Transportation Changes Equal Effect of Building Railroads

Cartoon delivery van in a city.An analysis on MSNBC equates pandemic-born changes to transportation with the birth of the U.S. railroads in the 19th century.

“If the pandemic were to continue or a vaccine was distributed right away, it really doesn’t change anything, because this was a train already moving down the track,” said Rich Thompson, who leads the global supply chain and logistics solutions team for the commercial real estate company JLL. “It’s just now accelerating.”

Thompson goes on to say a new network being created by private delivery carriers is effectively the same kind of revolution as the construction of the railroads hundreds of years ago.

“Parcel deliveries are akin to the creation of the American railroad system,” he said. “These alternative logistics providers are trying to create a private delivery network across the country — because that’s what we need.”

The article looks at what COVID-19 has meant for retail and delivery and briefly, into what it’s meant for cities; while curb management isn’t mentioned, there’s no question its acceleration has been a huge, permanent effect of the pandemic. Read the whole story here.

Free Online Shoptalk: The University Environment: Planning for Spring and What’s Changed, Moderated by Brett Wood, PE, CAPP

The University Environment: Planning for Spring and What’s Changed, Moderated by Brett Wood, PE, CAPP


January 6, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm ET

To register, click here. 

Free to all industry professionals. Registration coming soon.

Join IPMI for our next online Shoptalk addressing the parking, transportation, and mobility industry’s response and recovery planning. Open to all, join us for discussions centered on best practices, next steps, and the challenges ahead.


Shoptalk Summary 

Universities have walked a long road since March 2020. With some planning to welcome students back—at all or in larger numbers—for the spring 2021 semester and some still operating mainly or entirely remotely, the road to recovery can still be uncertain.

This open roundtable discussion will include results of the IPMI’s Research and Innovation Task Force’s research paper: Academic Parking-Mobility’s Response to COVID-19. Bring your challenges, your solutions, and your questions and ideas as we talk about flexible permits, mobility options, revenue recovery, staffing, and other issues universities face this spring.

Submit your questions and thoughts for the discussion on the registration page.


Brett Wood, PE, CAPP, Wood Solutions Group 

Brett Wood, CAPP, P.E. of Wood Solutions Group is a recognized industry expert in right-sized parking systems, parking management, and implementation of progressive parking policies. Throughout his 15-year career, he has been at the forefront of parking program design and the creation of innovative parking management practices. He’s worked with municipalities and campuses throughout the country to help create programs structured around community goals, customer service, and improving the overall vitality of the communities and campuses he serves.

Online Instructor Led Learning: Wicked Problem Solving – October 21, 2021

 

 

Register here for this event. $150 for IPMI Members


Non-Members may attend for a $300 registration fee. Click the register link above to attend as a non-member.  Need help logging in?

Contact us at professionaldevelopment@parking-mobility.org.

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Wicked Problem Solving

In this intermediate-level course, industry leaders will be provided with wicked problems and practice how to solve them. Learn what makes a problem wicked. The easy problems are solved, the ones left for executives are wicked.

Objectives:

  • Learn about your approach to problem-solving and those of others.
  • Practice identifying the three aspects that make a problem wicked and recognize steps on how to solve them.
  • Practice identifying wicked problems given current real-life scenarios that the industry is facing due to COVID-19.
  • Identify the people problems that impede solutions.

This is a two-day course.  Offers 4 CAPP points or .4 CEU’s toward application or recertification.

For more information, contact professionaldevelopment@parking-mobility.org


Instructor:

Dr. Andrea Hornett

Andrea Hornett taught strategy at Penn State and is retired from the business faculty at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Andy researched virtual teams at Xerox, earning her doctorate at George Washington University. She has more than a hundred presentations and peer-reviewed publications in organizational problem solving and learning, leadership, ethics, and knowledge transfer. In her extensive business career, she developed and consulted on global strategies and organizational solutions (e.g. DuPont Pharmaceuticals, The GAP, National Alliance of Business, Manufacturers’ Association of the Delaware Valley).

 

Register here.

Online Instructor Led Learning: Wicked Problem Solving – May 13, 2021

REGISTER HERE.

You’ll notice that we have launched your new member portal.  If you have questions or need assistance, please contact info@parking-mobility.org


Non-Members may attend for a $300 registration fee.  NOT A MEMBER? JOIN TODAY.


Wicked Problem Solving

In this intermediate-level course, industry leaders will be provided wicked problems and practice how to solve them. Learn what makes a problem wicked. The easy problems are solved, the ones left for executives are wicked.

Objectives:

  • Learn about your approach to problem-solving and those of others.
  • Practice identifying the three aspects that make a problem wicked and recognize steps on how to solve them.
  • Practice identifying wicked problems given current real-life scenarios that the industry is facing due to COVID-19.
  • Identify the people problems that impede solutions.

This is a two-day course.  Offers 4 CAPP points or .4 CEU’s toward application or recertification.


Instructor:

Dr. Andrea Hornett

Andrea Hornett taught strategy at Penn State and is retired from the business faculty at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Andy researched virtual teams at Xerox, earning her doctorate at George Washington University. She has more than a hundred presentations and peer-reviewed publications in organizational problem solving and learning, leadership, ethics, and knowledge transfer. In her extensive business career, she developed and consulted on global strategies and organizational solutions (e.g. DuPont Pharmaceuticals, The GAP, National Alliance of Business, Manufacturers’ Association of the Delaware Valley).

Online Instructor Led Learning: Wicked Problem Solving – May 11, 2021

REGISTER HERE.

You’ll notice that we have launched your new member portal.  If you have questions or need assistance, please contact info@parking-mobility.org


Non-Members may attend for a $300 registration fee.  NOT A MEMBER? JOIN TODAY.


Wicked Problem Solving

In this intermediate-level course, industry leaders will be provided wicked problems and practice how to solve them. Learn what makes a problem wicked. The easy problems are solved, the ones left for executives are wicked.

Objectives:

  • Learn about your approach to problem-solving and those of others.
  • Practice identifying the three aspects that make a problem wicked and recognize steps on how to solve them.
  • Practice identifying wicked problems given current real-life scenarios that the industry is facing due to COVID-19.
  • Identify the people problems that impede solutions.

This is a two-day course.  Offers 4 CAPP points or .4 CEU’s toward application or recertification.


Instructor:

Dr. Andrea Hornett

Andrea Hornett taught strategy at Penn State and is retired from the business faculty at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Andy researched virtual teams at Xerox, earning her doctorate at George Washington University. She has more than a hundred presentations and peer-reviewed publications in organizational problem solving and learning, leadership, ethics, and knowledge transfer. In her extensive business career, she developed and consulted on global strategies and organizational solutions (e.g. DuPont Pharmaceuticals, The GAP, National Alliance of Business, Manufacturers’ Association of the Delaware Valley).

Transportation Leaders Launch Future of Mobility Commission

Mobility and transportation leaders from around the world last week announced the launch of the Commission on the Future of Mobility, “to identify opportunities across transportation and technology silos and propose a fundamentally new vision for transportation policy for people and goods.” Members include:

  • Dr. Jared Cohon, president emeritus, Carnegie Mellon University (Commission co-chair) and chair of the Board on Energy and Environmental Systems of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.
  • Jim Hackett, senior advisor and former president and CEO, Ford Motor Company (Commission co-chair).
  • Thierry Mallet, chairman and CEO of Transdev Group (Commission co-chair).
  • Jason Grumet, founder and president of the Bipartisan Policy Center.
  • Richard Kramer, chairman, CEO, and president of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company.
  • Steven Mollenkopf, CEO of Qualcomm.
  • José Muñoz, Global COO, Hyundai Motor Company; president and CEO, Hyundai Motor North America and Hyundai Motor America.
  • Frederick W. Smith, chairman and CEO of FedEx Corp.
  • Cox Automotive.

Founded in research and advocacy, the Commission will provide new data and methodologies to drive innovative policy that optimizes across five areas for a cleaner environment, enhanced security, economic opportunity, safety, and access,” read a press release. The Commission is being organized within SAFE, a nonprofit organization focused on the future of transportation. It is still recruiting members.

Read the whole release here.