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LOS ANGELES, CA — Orikan, a leading provider of parking management technology solutions, today announced that the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has selected the company to provide upgraded parking management technology across its campus parking operations following a highly competitive procurement process. The agreement includes an initial five-year contract with a five-year extension option and encompasses the deployment of Orikan Metro LITE MAX multi-space parking kiosks equipped with both card and bill acceptors. UCLA will also implement Orikan's Metro LITE Virtual solution, primarily to support parking operations during special events and periods of peak demand.

Open to members from academic institutions. Campus challenges? You’ve got a whole community ready to talk about them. Join fellow IPMI higher education members for a lively, members-only conversation about the issues shaping parking, transportation, and mobility on campuses today. Bring your questions, swap ideas, share what’s working, and tap into peers' experience with the unique demands of higher education communities. It’s a chance to talk through real-world challenges, hear fresh perspectives, and connect with colleagues who are tackling many of the same issues on their own campuses.

Open to members from academic institutions. Campus challenges? You’ve got a whole community ready to talk about them. Join fellow IPMI higher education members for a lively, members-only conversation about the issues shaping parking, transportation, and mobility on campuses today. Bring your questions, swap ideas, share what’s working, and tap into peers' experience with the unique demands of higher education communities. It’s a chance to talk through real-world challenges, hear fresh perspectives, and connect with colleagues who are tackling many of the same issues on their own campuses.

Open to members from academic institutions. Campus challenges? You’ve got a whole community ready to talk about them. Join fellow IPMI higher education members for a lively, members-only conversation about the issues shaping parking, transportation, and mobility on campuses today. Bring your questions, swap ideas, share what’s working, and tap into peers' experience with the unique demands of higher education communities. It’s a chance to talk through real-world challenges, hear fresh perspectives, and connect with colleagues who are tackling many of the same issues on their own campuses.

The 2026 World Cup brought fans from more than 100 countries to host cities across the US, Canada, and Mexico, creating one of the largest coordinated arrival challenges the parking industry has ever seen. JustPark powered event parking for every 100+ matches, backed by 15+ years of running peak-day operations at venues across North America. The lessons apply to anyone running high-demand parking operations, including cities and campuses.

San Diego, CA— EnSight Technologies has delivered a vision-based parking occupancy management and guidance system for the new Bancroft Parking Structure at the University of California, Berkeley. The system helps students, staff, and visitors quickly locate available parking across all eight levels of the garage, which opened to campus earlier this month.

Register for this 30-minute microlearning webinar featuring Uber. We’re witnessing a major shift in how colleges and universities approach campus mobility. As travel behaviors evolve, parking demand changes, and institutions face increasing pressure to do more with limited resources, many campuses are rethinking the role of traditional fixed-route transportation. In this session, we’ll explore the broader industry trends driving the adoption of on-demand tech in campus transportation and its role in creating flexible, resilient transportation networks. By examining real-world shuttle replacement initiatives as a benchmark for this evolution, we will explore why and how campuses are reimagining fluid, rider-centric transit ecosystems.

If you work in university parking and transportation, you quickly learn that parking is rarely just about parking. Our departments serve a remarkably diverse group of people—students, faculty, staff, medical professionals, visitors, contractors, administrators, and other university departments. Each group has different needs, expectations, and priorities. Trying to balance those needs can make parking operations one of the more challenging areas of a university to manage.

I am relatively new to my role directing parking and transit services at Kent State University, and, as you can expect, I’ve had some challenges and lessons along the way. I’ve found it both cathartic and beneficial to reflect on the challenges and lessons learned since stepping into leadership in this industry. I’ve learned how much of a collaborator I truly am and how this has helped me to be a better leader. I’ve dealt with the strain of not being fully staffed and struggling to remain operational while also trying to manage burnout for myself and my staff. Finally, dealing with the politics of parking has challenged me and spurred me to grow as a leader.

At North Carolina A&T State University (N.C. A&T), sustainability is more than a buzzword; it is woven into daily operations. As the nation’s largest historically Black college or university, N.C. A&T hosts a vibrant calendar of events, from legendary homecomings to major athletic matchups. Yet with each event comes the challenge of managing parking logistics efficiently and responsibly.

It’s been a couple of months since our campus was thrust into a moment none of us were prepared for, and I’ve been thinking a lot about how the emotional landscape shifts with time. In the first days following the campus shooting, later defined a terrorist attack, everything felt sharp and disorienting — a kind of collective vertigo. Now, a couple of months later, the edges have softened, but the weight hasn’t fully lifted for me. It hasn’t disappeared. In many ways, it feels as though it’s settled quietly beneath the surface.

Lessons in Collaboration, Technology, and the Politics of Parking