DfT explores National Parking Platform requirements
The Department for Transport has launched a Discovery project to understand the need for the introduction of a National Parking Platform. The project sets out to “explore the opportunity to improve the parking experience for customers and enable greater efficiencies and opportunities for operators and service providers through data sharing, via a National Parking Platform”. […]
New York considering giving commission for public to dob in illegal parkers
People in New York City could be paid a proportion of parking fines, by reporting illegally parked cars. Route-Fifty.com reports the bill, sponsored by City Council members Stephen Levin and Corey D Johnson, would give parking whistleblowers 25% of any fines resulting from reports of cars that obstruct bike or bus lanes, pavements, crossings or […]
Welsh Government to give Councils powers to crack down on Pavement Parking
Ministers in Wales are backing the recommendations of an independent expert group to give councils additional civil enforcement powers to fine what they call problem parkers. The Welsh Pavement Parking Taskforce rejected the outright ban being pursued in Scotland, which is set to take five years to implement, calling it “overly slow and complex”. Instead it […]
Dorset chooses AppyWay’s traffic management order processing
Dorset Council has chosen the parking, kerbside data and management firm AppyWay to deliver an end-to-end Traffic Order (TRO) Suite. The suite is comprised of four tools designed to accelerate the traffic order process. To create and amend traffic orders Dorset uses Mapper, a next generation traffic order software that manages both static and moving […]
Ford and Bosch trialling self-driving parking
A new trial to test self-parking technology for connected cars is getting underway in the American city of Detroit. Ford Motor Company has teamed up with technology firm Bosch and commercial property provider Bedrock to test whether vehicles can drive and park themselves. They say this is America’s first infrastructure-based solution for automated valet parking. […]
AI Company launches in-car payment system “which anticipates a driver’s needs”
AI technology firm Cerence has launched Cerence Pay, a new product that delivers secure, contactless in-car payment through voice-powered AI. The American company says Cerence Pay is designed to anticipate drivers’ needs and provide a seamless payment transaction from intent to authentication via voice and facial biometrics and through to purchase. The company is currently […]
WPS upgrades parking kit to touchless
Dynniq’s parking subsidiary WPS is introducing new solutions to reduce the risk of virus transmission in car parks by upgrading ticket machines and barrier entry terminals. They’ll replace buttons with a touchless infrared ticket printer button where the customer just waves their hand in front of a sensor and the ticket is issued. Pay stations […]
New parking API “to transform journeys”
Parking technology company AppyWay is launching a new interface for developers to help drivers get what it calls “a parking sixth sense”. It’s mapped parking restrictions for more than 450 towns and cities in the UK to create what it says is the UK’s largest, standardised kerbside restriction dataset showing if it’s legal to park, […]
