No Longer a concept- Green Parking is here now

Parking, whether in lots or garages, is benefiting from some fresh thinking these days, thanks to new technology and creative ideas that can both save operators money and reduce carbon footprints. Parking operators are also addressing the need for publicly available electric vehicle charging in New York and other cities, though it’s not widely installed […]

Oman’s first automated basement car parking area

An office building in Al Ghubra is the first of its kind in Oman to install an automated car parking basement, with 66 car parking spaces made possible in a 600 square metre-area without any ramps for driving in or out.

Construction to start on 1415 Park Ave. development with Robotic Parking Garage

With a multi-story parking garage at Park Avenue and 15th Street now reduced to rubble , Hoboken developer Bijou Properties is set to start construction on a 12-story development that includes apartments, a charter school and a robotic parking garage.

You Tube: West Hollywood Automated Parking Garage

Tracy Savage speaks with Don Monahan, VP of Walker Parking Consultants about the West Hollywood City Hall Automated Garage and Community Plaza Project. The City of West Hollywood has contracted with Unitronics to design, engineer, fabricate, install and maintain a 200-car automated vehicle storage and retrieval system.

Automation helps Chinese drivers in a tight spot

Cheniandian Hutong, part of a labyrinth of alleys in Beijing’s Dongcheng district, is the first to get an automated underground parking garage. With room for 170 vehicles, residents say the four-story facility, adjacent to the eastern entrance of the alley, will ease car owners’ headaches.  “The hutong is already very narrow, and cars make it […]

1.2 million spaces but nowhere to park

I was recently reminded of the phrase “the cobbler’s children have no shoes“, referring to a phenomena where people who are successful at doing something but don’t demonstrate that in their own backyard, or in this case, their parking lot. An article in The Tennessean tells how Central Parking, a company which has 2,500 parking […]

Automated Parking Systems Receiving City Approvals

As mentioned in an earlier post, approval from fire departments on the safety of automated parking is intergral in getting a project off the ground. An article in Build LA, the monthly newsletter of the LA Department of Building and Safety, explains more about how automated parking structures, widely accepted in Europe and Japan, are becoming […]

It’s safety first with Automated, Robotic Parking

I read an article the other day whose opening line was “Next time you barricade yourself inside a parking garage with an AK-47, keep an eye out for the flying garbage can.”   The Miami-Dade Police Department has received the first permit issued by the Federal Aviation Administration to fly two robotic planes that would allow […]

Inauguration for automated eight-floor parking facility ‘South Square’ at Sarojini Nagar

India inaugurated the 824 space, automated parking garage at Sarojini Nagar today.  Developed by the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) under public-private partnership with real estate developers DLF Limited, they will offer free parking space to shoppers at Sarojini Nagar Market for the first 20 days, as part of a real-time trial of the fully […]

Full Spectrum South bolsters Jackson State University’s green efforts

Green building developer Full Spectrum South has pledged $2 million to Jackson State University (JSU) to bolster green efforts by both organizations, as well as supporting education for designing and building sustainable communities.  One of these joint efforts between Full Spectrum South and JSU is Old Capitol Green, a mixed-use urban project in Jackson, Mississippi. […]