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Indianapolis Public Parking System request for Qualifications
Mayor Greg Ballard issued a request for qualifications (RFQ) on Feb. 10 for a long-term concession arrangement and management contract for the city’s public parking system. On Mar. 15, the City received 16 responses to the RFQ, and after reviewing the proposals, eight companies were short listed. Central Parking, chosen as a short list bidder, opted to team up with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Co. and Duncan Parking, resulting in seven bids selected to make their presentations to the team in May. The bidders include: ACS, Denison Global Parking, Evens Time and Sease Gerig & Associates; Gates Group, Serco and Imperial Parking; Cintra; Central Parking System; Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Co. and Duncan Parking; ; P4 Partners, Aurora Capital Group and LAZ Parking; and Standard Parking Corporation. The City plan envisions easier parking with increased customer satisfaction by combining operation of government parking assets, such as parking lots, metered spaces and garages, under one management company. The city currently oversees more than 15,000 parking spaces and hopes this effort will incorporate other governmental entities’ parking lots throughout the area.

Skymeter Corporation Wins Main Prize in Intertraffic Innovation Awards
Six organizations were presented with Intertraffic Innovation Awards at the 20th Intertraffic in Amsterdam. Awards were presented in six separate categories: ITS/Traffic Management, Parking, Safety, Environment, Cooperative Systems and Infrastructure. The winner in the ITS/Traffic Management category, Skymeter Corporation, was also recognised as the Overall Winner for its Skymeter GPS-based financial-grade road use meter, designed for a variety of applications from road user charging and pay-as-you-drive insurance to parking. The winner of the Cooperative Systems category was Germany’s Gevas Software for its involvement in the Travolution project, while Israel’s Lidror was identified as the most innovative product in the Parking category. The Safety gong was claimed by Spain’s Badennova, while Gatsometer from the Netherlands took the Environment category. Finally, in Infrastructure, the UK’s Crown International proved that it is poles apart from the competition with its simple but ingenius wind-up/ wind-down VMC pole.

Add Water Systems to U.S. Infrastructure Challenges, Says Infrastructure 2010: An Investment Imperative
More and more urban areas throughout the United States—in both dry and rainy locales—are facing growing pressures on their water infrastructure systems, necessitating both greater investments for overhaul and a change in development patterns that are more conducive to conservation, according to Infrastructure 2010: An Investment Imperative, a new publication by the Urban Land Institute and Ernst & Young.

National Parking Association PArkINg June 2010

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