Futuristic Parking Garage Opens in Britain

Britain’s master-planned, mixed-use urban developments garner as many headlines for their financing woes and labor-contract disputes as for their vanguard architecture and residential amenities. Rarely would a parking garage feature among these complex’s biggest talking points, but not all garages are built to the specifications required by the Cube, a 450,000 square-foot site in Birmingham, […]

First Fully Automated Parking Garage in Copenhagen

In the Nørrebro district of Copenhagen you can now send your car underground and have it collected again – completely automatically. Copenhagen City Council has opened the first of three underground car parks, where ALECTIA is the consulting company. In the new car park only the cars go underground. You deposit your car in one […]

World Parking Symposium -Tech Solutions

Excerpt from Simple Solutions and Complex Technology at the World Parking Symposium Technological Solutions Several speakers presented on how high tech automated parking systems are being used to make more efficient use of garage space by eliminating access ramps and lanes. These systems function like giant filing cabinets for cars. Drivers simply park their vehicle […]