Parking & Access Control

Kapsch TrafficCom North America (Kapsch), part of Kapsch TrafficCom Group, has been selected by engineering and construction company HNTB and the Michigan DOT (MDOT) to deliver a truck parking connected-vehicle system at five sites along the I-94 corridor in Michigan. Kapsch will supply 5.9 GHz Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) in-vehicle units and roadside equipment with customised application software that together provide drivers with real-time truck parking availability information from MDOT f

In a five-year contract with the London Borough of Enfield, Adaptis Solutions has rolled out its Dash Park, its cashless parking solution across fourteen car parks throughout borough. The introduction of Dash Park now gives parking customers the option to make payments by phone, text, mobile, web or through a smartphone application. The system provides motorists a fast, simple, and dependable alternative to pay and display machines already in operation at Enfield’s car parks. Enfield Council’s head of parki

Parking specialist APT Skidata has returned to refresh and substantially upgrade the parking technology at Castle Quay Shopping Centre in Banbury, Oxfordshire, UK, more than twelve years after it originally installed the centre’s parking systems. Castle Quay has over eighty retail units and two visitor car parks, offering a total of 820 spaces to the 700,000 shoppers that park at the centre each year.

Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority’s (VTA) State Route (SR) 237 Express Lanes, for which TransCore serves as lead integrator, received the 2012 Transportation Project of the Year Award from the San Francisco Bay Area Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE). VTA is implementing the Silicon Valley Express Lanes Program to provide congestion relief in one of its major Bay Area commuter corridors. As part of the program, the SR 237, US 101, SR 85 and parts of I-680 corridor will convert the existin

One of a number of recent improvements and developments that have been carried out in Wellingborough town centre as part of Northamptonshire County Council’s Highways initiative is the installation of an access control gate system that gives public transport vehicles sole access to a designated town centre route during peak times. The council hopes that the system, which uses long-range vehicle identification technology to allow only buses and taxis to enter the specified route between the hours of 0900 to

Finland’s capital city, Helsinki, has installed an intelligent vehicle access control system in an effort to increase road safety, reduce hazardous emissions and make the city centre more cyclist and pedestrian friendly. Developed by Dutch vehicle detection supplier Nedap, the system provides selective vehicle access control, enabling the city to regulate traffic move movements and reduce the volume of vehicles in the city centre, by allowing only vehicles with a valid permit to enter. The system offers a

San Diego North County’s Interstate 15 corridor is best known for its flood of freeway traffic, not its mass transit stations. This is due to change next year, when the Sabre Springs/Penasquitos transit station, just east of I-15 on Sabre Springs Parkway, is set to undergo a US$12.2 million face-lift that will include a four-storey parking garage, electric vehicle charging stations, electronic next bus signs and even some smart parking spaces. “This will be our flagship station,” said Frank Owsiany, who ov

Drivers using the Windsor-Detroit tunnel linking Canada with the US will shortly be able to pay electronically on both sides of the border. Until now, electronic payment has only been available on the US side. Tunnel president Neal Belitsky said, “It’s part of a plan to eventually phase out tunnel tokens after 2013. We’re going to be getting out of the token business. If you look throughout the US or Canada, you can count the number of transportation facilities that use tokens ... probably on one hand.” T

Swedish parking services provider Cale Access has expanded its product offering with the acquisition of parking enforcement company Mobiway, manufacturer of Smartpark and Nice, a complete solution for enforcement queries and permits. Cale Access says this acquisition, and the addition of Smartpark to the current product offering, is a further step in the group’s ongoing strategy to offer complete parking solutions. “This solution is exactly what the industry needs to connect all payment suppliers on the mar

Revcon Technology Group, US-based turnkey parking systems provider, has installed licence plate recognition (LPR) systems from Hi-Tech Solutions (HTS), in several parking garages in Chicago. The LPR systems are integrated into a new overall parking management and revenue control system provided by TIBA Parking Solutions. Revcon says the HTS LPR system assists the garage operators to increase revenues with more accurate processing, auditing, control and billing functionality, as well as reduce loses due t