Training/Education

Open to members from cities and municipalities. Big challenges are easier to tackle when you’re not tackling them alone. Join fellow IPMI municipal members for a candid, members-only conversation about the issues, opportunities, and challenges facing public-sector parking and mobility professionals today. Bring your questions, share what’s working in your community, ask for advice, and learn from peers who understand the unique realities of municipal operations. These roundtable discussions are about real conversations, practical ideas, and connecting with colleagues navigating many of the same challenges you are.

Join IPMI’s Planning, Design, & Construction Committee for an interactive Roundtable focused on an important question for every parking professional: What can the deterioration, distress, and failures of existing parking structures teach us about building, maintaining, and managing better facilities for the future?

The September/October Ask the Experts question generated so many strong responses that not all could be included in one place...

Before he built parking technology, Sean Glavin spent nine years in the Army, including six as a Green Beret with the 5th Special Forces Group, the Army's elite unconventional warfare unit. Green Berets deploy in small teams into ambiguous, high-stakes situations where decisions must be made with incomplete information. He came away with one conviction that outlasted the uniform: Nothing is ever finished; it is either being improved or neglected.

On October 13, IPMI’s Planning, Design, & Construction (PDC) Committee will host an interactive roundtable examining lessons learned from the deterioration of existing parking structures—not simply to understand what went wrong, but to consider how those lessons can improve the way parking facilities are designed, constructed, monitored, maintained, repaired, and adapted for the future.

Meeting Controversy with Play

Designing Safer Counters, Lobbies, and Public-Facing Workspaces

This Frontline Fundamentals session, "Stronger Together: Building Solid, Supportive, and Successful Teams," was led by Vanessa Cummings (Ms. V), a parking and mobility consultant with more than 32 years of experience. Participants explored four key work styles, task-oriented, time-oriented, risk-taker, and follower, and learned how understanding these styles can improve teamwork, communication, and task delegation. Ms. V also shared practical strategies for collaborating with and managing different personality types across organizational settings.

Broxton Harvey, PTMP, is the General Manager of Parking for the City of Sarasota. Find out why he earned his PTMP and how it’s impacted his career.

IPMI’s New Board Chair

Taking Care of the People Who Take Care of the Frontline

Why Mentorship Matters More Than Ever