{"id":57,"date":"2017-03-28T13:48:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T13:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.parkpnp.com\/?p=57"},"modified":"2024-02-05T23:25:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T23:25:36","slug":"the-future-of-parking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parkpnp.com\/blog\/the-future-of-parking\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Parking"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The parking industry is changing.\u00a0 It\u2019s catching up fast on other industry sectors\u00a0in terms of its use of information technology. Traditionally, at the big parking expos, all the parking equipment manufacturers take centre stage, showing off their latest designs and colour schemes. However, software and its importance to parking solutions is taking a more prominent role in everyday parking activities.<\/p>\n

What was obvious in Chicago, at the at the recent annual Parking Industry Exhibition (PIE) (March 6th \u2013 8th, 2017), is that software companies are playing a much bigger role in the future capital expenditure plans of car park owners and operators. \u00a0Indeed, much of the discussion on the stands of the \u2018traditional\u2019 equipment manufacturers was of interfaces with booking engines, licence plate recognition systems, bluetooth devices and \u2018Big-Data\u2019.<\/p>\n

Why, you ask, is this change happening?<\/p>\n

In short, it\u2019s because cars, their owners and the places they want to park, are now finding each other through web search engines, data\u00a0aggregators, or pre-payment and pre-booking apps. \u00a0Just driving to the general area in which you want to find a parking space and hoping you find one, is not how it\u2019s done for the huge number of drivers who use smartphones, or whose car is connected to the internet. \u00a0They call up the area in which they want to park via their in-car displays and click on the location which is the best value or most convenient, then click through to book and pay for parking. \u00a0On arrival at the car park entry, they gain access without having to take a ticket and leave without having to wait in line at payment stations to pay with cash.<\/p>\n

The \u2018connected\u2019 driver of today wants to look forward to what they are going to do at journey\u2019s end, rather than worry about where they are going to park. \u00a0As Alex Israel, COO of Inrix.com, said during his PIE presentation on Parking Apps & Connected Cars, \u201cIf you\u2019re not on Google, your car park doesn\u2019t exist to the millennial driver!\u201d.<\/p>\n

Another interesting fact delivered at PIE is that 50% of new cars sold in 2017 will be ‘connected’ cars and that by 2025 it will be 100%. \u00a0Will these connected drivers and cars be able to find your car park?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Getting started is really easy, all you have to do is download our app, it\u2019s available for iOS<\/a>,\u00a0Android<\/a> or register online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The parking industry is changing.\u00a0 It\u2019s catching up fast on other industry sectors\u00a0in terms of its use of information technology. Traditionally, at the big parking expos, all the parking equipment manufacturers take centre stage, showing off their latest designs and colour schemes. However, software and its importance to parking solutions is taking a more prominent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":70,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,397],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry","category-parkpnp-archive"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/parkpnp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_1987.jpg?fit=3159%2C1938&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkpnp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkpnp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkpnp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkpnp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkpnp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/parkpnp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkpnp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkpnp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkpnp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkpnp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}