City Updates Parking Operations
Following the recent launch of Winnipegs first parking authority, the city, located in Manitoba, Canada, will combine parking operations and management.
Prior to the launch of its new parking authority, Winnipeg, with a population of more than 685,000, depended on several separate parking departments to administer parking operations. To complicate matters, each department used different management systems: citations were run by police, meters were controlled by the works department, off-street parking garages and lots that belong to the city were managed by the property department. Now, with the new streamlined parking authority, all the parking departments within each group have merged together naturally and will work from the same unified system.
To upgrade from the old manual system, the city chose T2 Systems Inc.s PowerPark Flex to unify all parking operations through a single system.
The system allows the parking authority to spend more time and resources focusing on proactive parking projects, rather than fixing old problems. In addition to PowerPark Flex, Winnipeg will use Recon wireless handheld ticketwriters, communicating in real-time, for increased efficiency in the field.
Initiative came from the city council to harmonize parking operations in order to facilitate a rebirth of Winnipegs downtown area, says David Hill, Chief Operating Officer and general manager of Winnipegs parking authority. Not only does the new system create a smoother process for the parking authority, it eases the burden on Winnipegs residents and visitors by housing all parking operations online, managed by one office.
PowerPark Flex is a hosted solution in which all software and data residing on servers can be securely accessed from any PC with a browser. A unified platform for everything parking, PowerPark Flex minimizes duplicate work between various systems. The open architecture integrates multiple functions, allowing parking operations to share data within an organization and with outside vendors, via standardized data exchange protocols.
For more information on T2 Systems, Inc., visit: http://www.t2systems.com
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