IPInsider - September 14, 2010

The IPI Conference & Expo is the premier event for parking and transportation professionals and where more than 2,500 individuals gather making it the largest gathering of parking professionals in the world. Already, 125 companies looking to expose their products and services to the most influential professionals who actively manage, operate and plan purchasing decisions in the multi-faceted parking and transportation industry have reserved their space at the 2011 IPI Conference & Expo in Pittsburgh. To showcase your products and services, be sure to reserve your space through the Virtual Expo Hall before it is all sold out! And be sure to check out the list of current exhibitors and see who helped make this the most successful exhibitor sales opening the history of IPI.

Register for the 2011 IPI Conference & Expo

IPI is offering multiple registration packages; continual online access with My Planner; electronic badge previews and online hotel reservations to ensure your registration is accurate and up-to-date and that your registration experience is exceptional.  There's no point in denying it, times are tough. We're calling in favors & pulling strings to make it easier for you to attend. Take advantage of our early bird specials on registration good through January 31, 2011, with additional incentives if you book by January 15 - receive all education sessions on audio - a $750 value.  In addition, IPI has blocked two hotels with fees as low as $189 a night good through April 19, 2011, and negotiated ground transportation discounts for as low as $34 roundtrip to/from the hotels. Reserve early - save today and reap valuable results throughout the year. And use IPI's Justification Toolkit to present your business case for attending.

Call for Presentations Deadline Approaching
Experienced and articulate individuals willing to share their expertise and real world practices are invited to submit presentation proposals for the 2011 International Parking Institute Conference & Expo.  Proposal presentations are due October 1, 2010.  More Information and Submission Instructions

There are ways of increasing revenues other than incremental fee increases. Are there potential paying customers for your parking operation that changes in your organization's fee structures, policies or practices could attract? Do some customers require special care or additional services for which you could charge? Could your parking rates be structured in a way that parkers would gladly pay more?

 

Money in the Cushions - Have You Overlooked These
Ways to Increase Parking Revenues?
Mark Miller, CEO, Public Parking Associates, Inc.

 

Through this webinar, you will:

· Learn to critically assess your organization's fee structures.

· Come away with ideas that could increase parking revenues.

· Gain greater community support for your parking program.

 

 

For more information and to register, visit the IPI e-Learning web site, www.parking.org/webinars.

The goal of the recent redesign of IPI's primary communication vehicle, www.parking.org, is for the IPI website to become a valuable tool for members, prospective members and those seeking information about parking  -  and a vehicle for advancing the parking profession.  One of the key features of the new website is the IPI Library.  The IPI Library is home to resources to advance the parking profession, and provide statistics and relevant parking facts and information. From archived articles from The Parking Professional to articles from other industry sources, the IPI Library provides information and knowledge in key industry subject areas.  Access to archived articles and resources is restricted to IPI Members. 

 

 

If you still need to create your new website account, follow the "Register" link and enter your email address and member-ID number.  Individuals that do not know their member-ID can contact the IPI Member Services Department at 540.371.7535 or via email at membership@parking.org. 

Plan to join the International Parking Institute in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, October 10-12, 2010 for the 3rd Middle East Parking Symposium.  IPI is hosting the main educational stream at this year's event which will address issues focused on Design & Planning, Finance & Investment, Equipment, Technologies, Enforcement & Operations as it relates to international parking and transportation programs.
 
Full conference program

 
Interested in showcasing your products or services?

 
All IPI members are entitled to special discounts.  If you are interested in attending or exhibiting, please contact Michele Amaya, IPI, at 540.371.7535 or Davyd Farrell, MEPS, at 00971.50565.2519 for more assistance.

This training medium consists of a PowerPoint presentation with video inserts to compliment the overall training. Individuals are able to access, view and train at their leisure. To access the First Observer web based training, visit http://firstobserveripi.com/index.php; click the "Get Started" icon and proceed. Upon completion of the training, persons will be prompted to answer a few short review questions. A First Observer card and certificate can be printed after the questions have been satisfactory completed. This training is free, and for more information on all the First Observer training options, visit www.parking.org/firstobserver.

 

 

During the course of your lunch break today, three or four Americans will probably succeed in killing themselves.  Each day 86 Americans take their own lives and over 1,500 attempt suicide. In 2008 alone, an estimated 8.3 million adults worldwide had serious thoughts of suicide, 2.3 million made a suicide plan, and 1.1 million attempted suicide.  Thousands of people attempt suicide by jumping every year, resulting in hundreds of deaths.  Although it is unclear how many of those deaths by jumping occurred in a parking garage, 34.3 percent of suicide deaths by jumping occurred at a transport area such as a parking garage, highway or train stations between 2005 and 2007.

 

Because we in the parking industry have heard stories about suicide jumpers jumping from parking garages and may have even witnessed one of these stories, we feel the topic needs to be addressed. 

 

IPI Members can read the rest of this article and view past issues on The Parking Professional page of IPI's new website. 

California Public Parking Association

The latest industry news and vital industry information:

 

· Canyon to Crack Down on Parking
· Nashville Unveils Special Parking Meters Meant to Raise Money for Homeless Programs
· Meter Running Out On Unpaid Parking Tickets in Dover
· Indianapolis Mayor Ballard Puts Brakes on Plan for Parking Meter Vote
· Redlands to Study Having More Downtown Parking
· Magazine Street Merchants Divided on Parking Meter Issues
· With Parking, Price is Not the Hard Part
· Austrailian Woman, 21, Owes $32,000 in Parking Fines
· Plan for Pricier Parking Worries Some
· New Haven Inks Deal With Zipcar for Train Station
· Cape May Rejects More Parking Spaces, Meters
· Pittsburgh Unions Support Mayor's Parking Plan
· Panel Tackles Albany's Permit Parking Plan
· New Signs Tell Which Seattle Parking Garages Have Space
· Bike-Lane Plans 'Still Hurting' Parking Garage
· UI Adopts New Pay By Phone Parking Meter Service
· Central Florida Parking Woes in Full Swing
· Wayne, Pa. Parking Crunch: Perception or Problem?
· Borough Trumpets New Parking Garage
· Major Players Vie to Build New Broward Courthouse Parking Garage
· Springfield Parking Garage Still on Market
· Boyertown Nixes Removing Parking Meters
· Downtown Aurora, Ill., Merchants Want City's Meters Gone
· Lansdale Parking Fines Could Go Up
 

 

For these stories plus more, visit the Parking in the News section of IPI's website.