Parker-X (A Parking Industry Podcast)

Brett, Brett and Lester talk about what's they're seeing in Parking and where the Podcast is going in 2021.  

In this episode, we chat with Diana Alarcon, Director of Transportation Planning for the City of Tucson, AZ. We'll chat about how transportation is changing in the City, how COVID impacted operations, how they are adapting new programs - like Slow Streets - to improve the community, and how they plan to emerge from the pandemic even better. And we get to meet her dog! Hope you enjoy!

In this episode, we sit down with Jim Corbett from Walker Consultants to discuss his career in parking, how he approaches consulting with a nod to his deep experience in operations, and trends he sees shaping our industry. 

** This episode was recorded in March 2020, prior to the beginning of the global pandemic. 

This week "Hot Source".  The team reviews what's hot in the industry, what's news and what we're missing out on from attending in person Industry Events due to  COVID. 

In this episode (taped pre-COVID), we chat with Gary Means, Executive Director of the Lexington Parking Authority in Lexington, KY. Topics include parking organizations and structures, advances in curb management, and the workings of the LPA. Hope you enjoy!

The team discusses where we started from and where we have come to as well as the world moving forward.

With an election coming up in Australia's capital territory this weekend - Brett was invited to have a quick chat on Parking and Parking Technology on the Radio.

In this episode, we sit down (Pre-COVID) with Brett Munkel of SP+ to discuss parking and mobility trends on university campuses in the US. We discuss event management, context-sensitive planning, and overall trends we see in the academic world and how they relate to advanced parking and mobility management.

In this episode, a plural of Brett's talk about the use and abuse of Smart Sensors.
Generally deployed by Municipalities, we introduce the topic and the significant use cases for this long emerging tech.  And not a snowplow in site!  We barely scratched the surface so we'll come back to unearth more...

In this episode, we sit down (Pre-COVID) with Luke Segars and Kate Wagoner of Passport to discuss curb management, mobility, and how technology is helping to influence the future of the curbside environment. While this was recorded earlier in 2020, the lessons still apply as a we plan for a post-COVID world in the parking and mobility industry. 

This week Brett and Lester connect with Cassius Jones, Head of National Accounts and Customer Success at Smarking Inc.  A great discussion on his introduction into parking, how to turn data into parking insights and the emerging trends across the COVD-19 pandemic as seen in their new Industry benchmark monitor.  

In this episode, recorded pre-COVID, we chat with Dawn Marti, Association and Event Manager for ten of our industries regional parking and transportation conferences. We chat with Dawn about the importance of regional conferences, innovations she's seen in recent years, and how to get the most out of the conference experience. 

While we are all without conferences now, hopefully we get back out there in the future!

This week the team are talking with Jacob Gonzalez of WGI about strategies for creating adaptive reuse and flexible parking structures. Its a real eye-opener!

This week the team break away from the gloom and start a new PX side series on 
what the long-term future holds for Mobility and Parking Design generally.
It has been a while, so catch us up! 

Field hardware delivered and supported as a service, a way to pivot to a capex free model.  What to concern yourself with.  We explore the significant upsides and potential downsides of these types of programs - allowing you to decide how much are you prepared to put down.

In this episode, we discuss the gradual re-opening of the economy and the parking industry and what that means for municipal parking programs. In particular, we look at data-driven policies, performance-based pricing, easing in parking management, and considerations for marketing and attracting customers. 

Frictionless, Customer Experience, Ticketless, Gateless, Ticket Reduced, Remote Control, Automated Recognition.... how do we evaluate what mix of technologies make sense to your Parking environment in a world where everyone wants to park and no-one wants to have to think about it?