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CPMA 2024 Annual Conference & Expo

Automated Parking Guidance Systems (APGS) - Is it time?  Are you Ready?

Wednesday, September 25, 9:30 AM, Room: Glenwaters

An Automated Parking Guidance System (APGS) is an occupancy monitoring system of sensors, loops, or cameras with electronic digital signs designed to guide parking patrons to and through a maze of parking to find available spaces in the most fuel and time-efficient manner possible.  An APGS can be as simple as monitoring total spaces available in the parking facility as a whole, by the level or zone, or as complex as monitoring and displaying each and every available space including Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Electric Vehicle Charging Stations (EVCS), or reserved spaces. Varying technologies are available to monitor these different “levels” of APGS including ultrasonic sensors, magnetic detection sensors, vehicle detection loops, LIDAR sensors, and camera-based sensors.  Camera-based sensors have the added benefit of using License Plate Recognition (LPR) technology for lost car assistance, preferred space rate changes, and non-payment notifications when tied to Pay-by-Plate payment technology.  Single-space sensors of all types can be used for preferred space and non-payment when tied to Pay-by-Space payment technology.  Single-space monitoring can also be used for parking inventory management of hybrid workforce by tying into a reservation system and identifying the “reserved for hybrid” parking spaces. Once the space monitoring has been achieved, the APGS can disseminate the parking availability to the parking patrons at strategic locations using digital electronic signs. It can also provide this information on websites and mobile applications. Join Geoffrey Posluszny, CPP, CAPP of Walker Consultants, as he describes these various levels of guidance, devices used for monitoring, and situations where these can be implemented, including covered parking, rooftop parking, and open surface lots.    

Learning Objectives

  • Learn what Parking Guidance is.

  • Understand how it benefits the user and the owner.

  • Discover the potential return on investment.

Geoffrey Posluszny (Walker Consultants)

 

Geoffrey Posluszny is a parking technology and operations consultant in the Charlotte, NC office specializing in Parking Access and Revenue Control Systems (PARCS), Automated Parking Guidance Systems (APGS), Electric Vehicle Charging Systems (EVCS), planning studies and evaluations, supply and demand analysis, and is a member of Walker’s Planning, Operations, and Technology Group. During his time at Walker Geoff has consulted on numerous PARCS, APGS, and EVCS specifications, procurements, and contract administration projects.

Geoff is accredited as a Certified Parking Professional (CPP) by the National Parking Association (NPA) and a Certified Administrator of Public Parking (CAPP) by the International Parking and Mobility Institute (IPMI).

He has been “parking cars” for 30 years and has done so in Denver, Co, New Orleans, LA, Western New York (Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse), and Raleigh and Charlotte, NC. Geoff has been in management and commercial operations, sales and service of parking equipment, and even headed up his own parking operations firm and a PARCS distributorship.

 

 

This conference offers up to 7 CAPP Points towards application and the maximum in Program Type 2 for recertification.