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Large-scale parking operations face unique operational challenges due to both their environment and the high turnover of users.

Indianapolis, IN — T2 Systems, a Verra Mobility (NASDAQ: VRRM) company, announced the 20-year anniversary of its flagship T2 Flex® cloud-based parking permit management and enforcement solution. Since its launch, T2 Flex has helped modernize parking operations for hundreds of universities, municipalities, and private operators. T2 Systems provides the most comprehensive suite of parking and mobility solutions in North America, serving over 2,000 parking organizations. T2 technology manages millions of parking spaces and processes millions of transactions across hundreds of universities, municipalities, and private operators in North America. T2 Flex was one of the first digital browser-based solutions to solve the problem of fragmented, outdated parking systems that cause inefficiencies, silos, and poor customer experiences. Today, T2 Flex is a cloud-based tool that addresses the needs of large universities and cities that struggle to manage complex, high-volume operations spread across multiple systems with its centralized, enterprise-grade T2 UNIFI® Platform for seamless digital payments, virtual permitting, enforcement, and analytics. The T2 Flex platform enables organizations of all sizes to streamline operations, reduce IT burden, and deliver a better experience for customers and administrators. “Two decades ago, T2 Systems launched Flex to lead a technology shift in parking — delivering the first cloud-based, hosted, comprehensive parking system,” said Zack Harmeyer, Senior Vice President of Product at T2 Systems. “Today, Flex is the most advanced parking management platform available, supporting everything from permit sales to license plate recognition (LPR), mobile enforcement, along with Parking Access and Revenue Control System (PARCS) and real-time data analytics across college campuses, hospitals, airports, and cities throughout North America. This milestone is a testament to our customers and partners who helped guide its evolution and shape the modern parking experience.” The flagship Flex platform continues to evolve with software innovations for residential permitting from T2 Reside™, mobile citation payments with Scan & Pay™, and event or interim parking with T2 Tempo™. The company is advancing the solution with T2 FlexForward™, a scalable, fully cloud-hosted solution with enhanced integrations, streamlined user experiences, and deeper connectivity across the T2 UNIFI® Network, which is already being used by more than 60% of Flex customers to enhance parking operations. With its sleek, intuitive interface designed for today’s users, FlexForward provides a faster, cleaner, and easier system to navigate for complex operations or daily tasks. “T2’s collaborative approach to developing FlexForward ensured that customer feedback directly shaped the product. The result is a platform with meaningful enhancements, from the powerful global search to a more intuitive design that streamlines workflows and improves efficiency,” said Andrew Woloszczuk, Permit Specialist and Adjudications Lead, at Duke University. As the industry’s longest-standing and most widely adopted parking management enforcement solution, Flex powers mission-critical parking operations for more than 100,000 users across more than 400 installations in North America. “T2 has been our go-to parking strategy for nearly 25 years, and we’ve been using the Flex platform for the past 18 years,” said Josh Cantor, Director of Parking & Transportation at George Mason University. “From being the first customer of T2’s Parking Access and Revenue Control System (PARCS), to the integration of collections, pay stations, and license plate recognition, T2 has given us the ability to keep expanding our parking solutions under a single platform.” To celebrate the anniversary, T2 is launching the #Flex20 campaign featuring customer spotlights, historical insights, and product roadmap previews at its annual T2 Connect event, the parking industry’s largest and longest-running customer user conference. About T2 Systems T2 Systems, a Verra Mobility company, provides the most comprehensive suite of parking and mobility solutions in North America, serving over 2,000 customers, including universities, municipalities, and private operators. With industry-leading platforms like T2 Flex®, T2 UNIFI®, and Velocity™, T2 helps organizations manage parking permits, enforcement, access, payments, and mobility with confidence. T2 Flex® and T2 UNIFI® are registered trademarks of T2 Systems, Inc. About Verra Mobility Verra Mobility Corporation (NASDAQ: VRRM) is a leading provider of smart mobility technology solutions that make transportation safer, smarter, and more connected. The company sits at the center of the mobility ecosystem, bringing together vehicles, hardware, software, data, and people to enable safe, efficient solutions for customers globally. Verra Mobility’s transportation safety systems and parking management solutions protect lives, improve urban and motorway mobility, and support healthier communities. The company also solves complex payment, utilization, and compliance challenges for fleet owners and rental car companies. Headquartered in Arizona, Verra Mobility operates in North America, Europe, and Australia. For more information, please visit www.verramobility.com.

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Attractive and attentive parking and transportation management techniques will display public safety initiatives best servicing our communities by providing dependable access in well maintained facilities. Safe parking destinations demonstrate consistent cleaning and equipment upkeep, lighting functionality, clear wayfinding signage and pedestrian paths, and surveillance. As it relates to transportation, safe bus stops are defined by strong visibility, clear sidewalks, positioning out of direct vehicular traffic, and signage providing the user real time tracking. Depending on location, many of us in the industry experience periodic or routine disruptive weather events, and lack of preparation can cause for costly and potential disastrous situations. We find ourselves frequently adjusting lot restrictions and transportation programming at Old Dominion University, a University in the coastal city of Norfolk, Virginia, facing severe sea level rise and constant tidal flooding.  This past August with the effects of Hurricane Erin and flooding, the department closed a popular residential lot and large portions of a prime commuter lot and dedicated specific garages on campus for University community use during the impact. Communication through social media in tandem with departmental updates assisted with providing this information in a relatively short time frame, as well as any updates to transit routes and timing. I’ve found since last Spring through involvement with the neighborhood civic league within a portion of our University blueprint increases relations with the surrounding business and residential community. Highland Park is a diverse neighborhood described as residential, commercial, industrial, and educational, with the part of campus containing our Arts District, a 9,500 multipurpose event venue, and active restaurants. In these meetings with collaboration from Old Dominion University Police, I’ve been able to share updates around University facilities, upcoming events with increased traffic through the neighborhood, changes to programming with permitting and enforcement, field questions, and work towards solutions. This is an invaluable experience aimed to better our community and provide transparency between the University and neighborhood. Zach Pearce, PTMP, is an Associate Director of Operations for Old Dominion University. Zach can be reached at zpearce@odu.edu.