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Amano McGann Inc., Awarded City of Sacramento Parking Garage Upgrade Contract
January 11, 2016 – Minneapolis, MN and Sacramento, CA – Amano McGann Inc., the industry leader in parking automation and revenue control, was recently awarded the contract to upgrade the City of Sacramento’s five downtown parking facilities. The garages are being updated in part due to the construction of a new downtown arena that will be the home of the Sacramento Kings basketball team. With installations to begin in March and be completed by August 2016, Amano McGann is currently mobilizing for the modernization of the city’s parking facilities.
“The goal of the City’s parking division is to effectively manage the City’s parking supply, especially during a time of increased activity,” said Matt Eierman, City of Sacramento Parking Manager. “The new technology will enhance the parking experience for businesses, residents, and visitors.”
Amano McGann’s OPUSuite Cloud-Based Parking Management Platform solution will enable the City of Sacramento to achieve enhanced parking operation management through revenue and operational on-demand reporting. The new system will allow patrons to see where parking is available, pay in advance and enter and exit the garage with almost no delay – enhancing the patron’s overall experience when visiting these parking facilities.
Project Highlights
- Enable customers to reserve spaces and pre-pay for parking with a goal of enhancing the parking experience through streamlined entry and exit
- Incorporate license plate recognition (LPR) technology to improve vehicle throughput speeds by allowing gates to open without the need for the parker to present an access card
- Notify parkers which garage level has parking available through an advanced wayfinding system
- Utilize enhanced Amano McGann customer and merchant self-service features to complete routine transactions such as purchasing monthly parking permits or obtaining merchant validations, eliminating the need to visit the customer…
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Full Product Transparency: It’s time to be clear about the facts.
Ottawa, ON – Chicago, IL – Carmel, IN – January 12, 2016 – The North American Precast Concrete industry is pleased to announce the release of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) in three key precast concrete product categories. The EPDs will allow architects, engineers, building owners, and other specifiers to better understand the environmental impacts of precast and prestressed concrete products.
The precast concrete industry wide EPDs are now available for the following products: Architectural and Insulated Wall Panels, Structural Precast Concrete Products and Underground Precast Concrete Products.
Third-party verified EPDs
An EPD is a standardized, internationally recognized, comprehensive tool for providing information on a product’s environmental impact. Information in the EPD documents is based on an ISO-compliant Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and verified by a third-party. The detailed analysis considers all processes in the manufacturing of a product, including raw material and energy extraction, preliminary production and the manufacture of end products.
EPDs and LEED
The industry wide EPDs, jointly released by the Canadian Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (CPCI), the National Precast Concrete Association (NPCA) and the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI), are issued within clearly defined product groups based on the precast concrete Product Category Rules (PCR). Using products with EPDs can contribute to LEED credits. LEED v4 has incorporated a new credit for EPDs that have been third-party verified by an approved program operator. For more information on LEED credits, visit www.usgbc.org and www.cagbc.org.
The EPDs were independently prepared by Athena Sustainable Materials Institute in accordance with ISO 14025 and ISO 21930; the Product Category Rules for Preparing an Environmental Product Declaration for Precast Concrete (UN CPC 3755), March 2015; and ASTM international’s EPD program operator rules. They were also independently verified by…
New parking strategy would address complicated signage, update pricing and encourage other modes of transit
By Elias Abboud, CBC News Posted: Dec 16, 2015 11:31 AM ET Last Updated: Dec 16, 2015 3:32 PM ET
Montreal is working on a new parking strategy to address complicated signage and to update pricing, while encouraging drivers to leave their cars at home.
City officials have completed a comprehensive study looking at street parking and public parking lots and how they are used, signage and regulations.
- Parking signs in Montreal too confusing, councillor says
- Westmount’s pay-by-plate parking replacing coin meters
The city says its goal is “to offer a balanced parking plan to improve quality of life for citizens and to assure economic vitality, and at the same time, reducing dependence on the automobile and its impact on the environment.”
On Wednesday, Mayor Denis Coderre said sustainable development and quality of life concerns are key to the new parking strategy.
“When you waste time to go around four, five times , it’s not truly good on your humour. So it enhances your own joie de vivre,” he said.
City officials say they want a coherent strategy that will apply to all boroughs across the island.
There are 37 proposed measures, including:
- using dynamic signage to indicate availability of parking in certain areas.
- using sensors to indicate, in real time, availability of parking spaces.
- setting up zones for modes of sustainable transport, such as bicycles.
- encouraging use of Bixi shared bicycles, taxis and car-sharing.
- building bike shelters at metro stations.
- introducing new parking fee structures, such as progressive pricing or pricing based on availability.
- simplifying street signage.
The city wants to hold public consultations on the new parking strategy in the spring of 2016.
Hope, tainted by experience
Driver Isabelle Langlois said she would welcome the proposed measures, but experience has…
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December 21, 2015 – Minneapolis, MN and Baltimore, MD – Amano McGann Inc., the world leader in parking automation, has partnered with Parking Panda, the nation’s leading app for on-demand parking, to announce the integration of Parking Panda’s PandaScan technology with Amano’s OPUSuite® Cloud application and FlexScan® on-premise technology. This integration will provide drivers and parking operators with the most streamlined parking solution available today. Users will have the ability to find and book pre-paid parking through Parking Panda’s mobile app or website and seamlessly scan into any Amano parking facility with the FlexScan and OPUSuite capability. Reservations will be consolidated and available for both count and revenue reconciliation with OPUSuite.
Amano’s OPUSuite Cloud® application consolidates operational and financial data allowing for the remote management of any number of facilities for consolidated management, reporting analytics and PandaScan. Seamless integration of the FlexScan reads both 2D and linear barcodes from a variety of media, ranging from paper to I.D. badges and smartphones.
“We are very excited to partner with Parking Panda, a company that shares our passion for innovation in parking technology,” commented Joe Survance, Senior Vice President – Marketing and Business Development for Amano McGann. “Our collaboration provides parking patrons with ease-of-use at facilities with Amano’s OPUSuite and FlexScan technologies. This forward-thinking approach will enhance the experience for both operator and the customer.”
“Our partnership with Amano McGann is proof of our unwavering dedication to improve the parking experience for our users and operators,” said Parking Panda CEO, Nick Miller. “This integration will provide our users with an increased level of convenience and mobile access, while our partner operators enjoy more control and easier management through this automated technology. We’re proud to be working with Amano McGann to make parking a lot easier and more efficient for drivers and…
Ottawa’s 90-second PSA concisely outlines the damage of a policy set in the past.
Of all the cities across North America relaxing their developer parking requirements, none can boast a PSA on the topic as clear and concise as Ottawa’s 90-second “Review of Minimum Parking Standards” video.
The clip accompanies a larger public discussion Ottawa has been having all year about new parking rules. The existing zoning codes, established half a century ago, require developers to create a certain amount of parking based on the type of building in the works—the sort of “parking minimums” found in so many cities. Ottawa wants to reduce or eliminate those outdated minimums for development that occurs in inner urban areas or near transit corridors, in line with a new city plan adopted in 2013.
The video spotlights three reasons why:
- To promote business and development. Parking costs a lot of money to build. Some commercial or residential developers can’t afford enough valuable downtown land to meet parking requirements, so they give up on their projects. Others build underground garages, which means they have to raise retailer or household rents or put up huge towers that can dramatically alter the character of a neighborhood. Eliminating parking minimums gives developers more flexibility.
- To improve urban housing. As the video points out, the land set aside for parking can be better used for other things, especially in cities with high demand for housing. Instead of building 20 parking spaces, you can put up an entire new building with 20 apartments. Affordability improves, too, because developers don’t have to pass along up-front parking expenses to new tenants.
- To reduce traffic and car reliance. When there’s a free or cheap parking space available to everyone, it’s only natural for more people to drive. That makes downtown traffic worse, dampens plans for…
JASON MAGDER, MONTREAL GAZETTE
Published on: December 16, 2015 | Last Updated: December 16, 2015 7:24 PM EST
Theo Zoumboulis said he has received many parking tickets in Montreal.
The business owner said when he’s rushed and heading to a meeting, he often doesn’t have time to look at all the signs, and can get penalized as a result.
“It’s very confusing,” Zoumboulis said. “They should definitely try to make it easier to understand all the rules.”
Mayor Denis Coderre said he hopes the days of six different parking signs on one sign post are numbered. The city’s new parking policy, approved by the executive committee on Wednesday, strives to simplify rules, and make it easier for motorists to find available spaces.
“Things have to be simple,” Coderre said. “When people come to the city and they see six parking signs on one post, there is a problem.”
The policy will be voted on at city hall next month, and will be the subject of public consultations over the winter. It’s expected the policy will be adopted by spring.
The new policy includes:
- Fees for parking meters that would change based on demand and where they are located.
- Sensors at parking spots and adaptive signs to direct people to available spaces. The information about available spaces would also be available on smartphones.
- Having better indications at parking spots like green lights at the top of meters to show when parking is permitted and red lights when parking is not permitted.
- Harmonizing reserved parking in residential areas so there is a city-wide rate system and a general guideline for boroughs to follow when creating reserved spots.
- Creating a city-owned agency to manage parking, repatriating Stationnement de Montréal, which is operated by the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal.
Coderre said parking should not be seen as a source of revenue for the city, but instead as a way to boost the…
Indianapolis-based T2 Systems Ranked #444 Fastest Growing Company in North America on Deloitte’s 2015 Technology Fast 500™
Attributes 134 percent revenue growth to organic growth and acquisition
Indianapolis — T2 Systems today announced it ranked No. 444 on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies in North America.
Indianapolis-based T2, a national leader in parking technology with clients including the City of Houston, Harvard, UCLA, and Duke universities, grew its revenue 134 percent during this period.
T2’s chief executive officer and founder Mike Simmons credits a combination of new customers, services and acquisitions with the company’s revenue growth.
“Over the last 21 years, T2’s portfolio of clients has grown to include universities, hospitals, airports, cities and private business campuses, all seeking an intuitive and customer-focused approach to making the parking experience as seamless as possible,” Simmons said. “This recognition is a credit to the strong team at T2.”
Montreal, November 9, 2015—VINCI Park, an established Canadian company with more than 1,800 employees and 600 parking facilities under management, will be rolling out a new identity in the next few weeks: Indigo. This new brand, accompanied by the tagline MAKING SPACE FOR THE FUTURE, is a strong indication of the direction the company is taking with the deployment of new technologies associated with individual mobility. More than just a place to park, Indigo parking facilities will be connected and will gradually offer the possibility of reserving a space and paying with a mobile app. The introduction of digital services includes the stepped-up installation of electric charging stations and bicycle parking spaces, for example. The introduction of the Indigo brand follows a major transaction completed in June 2014 in which two French companies, Ardian and Crédit Agricole Assurances, acquired a 75% stake in the company.
For Louis Jacob, the company’s executive vice-president, “Indigo is part of an overall approach to mobility. The current services will develop quickly to create hubs where users will not only find a suitable, accessible and safe parking space more easily, but they’ll also be able to plan how they will get around more efficiently.” With the growing number of vehicles in urban centres, Indigo is seeking to provide quick access to popular parking sites and thereby offer a solution that improves individual mobility.
In addition to having its headquarters in Montreal, Indigo is the major player in the Quebec parking industry. Indigo manages a large number of well-known parking facilities in Quebec as well as in Canada’s largest cities. Examples include Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Jean Lesage and Pearson international airports in Montreal, Quebec City and Toronto respectively, as well as the Bell Centre in Montreal and the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa.
Indigo is part of a global…
The News Wheel | Nov 3 | https://thenewswheel.com/canadian-condos-offer-free-nissan-leafs-if-tenants-buy-parking-spaces/
One Toronto real estate company is taking a drastic step in condominium purchasing incentives by offering new residents a free Nissan LEAF if the resident buys a parking space equipped with an EV charging station along with the condo.
The company, Bside at Minto Westside, is partnering with Nissan Canada to offer these vehicles in “an unprecedented move towards sustainability in the Toronto condo market.” Apparently, Bside thinks that condos in Toronto currently lack the infrastructure to deal with electric vehicles.
Wells Baker, Director of Conservation and Sustainable Design at Minto, said, “The majority of high-rise buildings are faced with the challenge of overcoming a lack of infrastructure and space required for transformers needed to install electrical vehicle chargers. Bside is aiming to set a new benchmark in Toronto. It’s being developed with a dedicated transformer for EV chargers as well as space to add additional chargers as demand grows.”
Of course, if the infrastructure is built up across Toronto for electric vehicles, Nissan (whose LEAF is the number-one-selling EV in Canada) can only stand to gain, especially as the company continues to improve its electric vehicles and EV technology.
As Steven Rhind, Nissan Canada’s director of marketing, said, “The added incentive of offering an all-electric Nissan LEAF to buyers is exceptional.”
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The Bank of Canada unveiled and issued a commemorative bank note today at Rideau Hall to mark the historic reign of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
This limited-issue bank note is a variation of the existing $20 note in the Polymer series. It has all the same security features, making it easy to check and difficult to counterfeit. The differences are in the visual elements of the large window.
The commemorative note will circulate along with the existing $20 note, and will be available to Canadians through their financial institutions starting tomorrow.
Since this commemorative note is being issued in relatively small numbers (5 per cent of $20s in circulation), and may be retained as keepsakes by Canadians, its volume and time in circulation may well be limited.
The Bank made commemorative notes available to financial institutions and others in the cash-handling industry for testing purposes. Testing by financial institutions showed no impact on ABMs and some note accepting devices, however, certain other note accepting devices did not readily accept the commemorative note. Should this occur, another bank note can be used instead.
La Banque du Canada dévoile et émet le nouveau billet commémoratif de 20 $
La Banque du Canada a dévoilé et émis aujourd’hui, à Rideau Hall, un billet commémoratif pour souligner le règne historique de Sa Majesté la reine Elizabeth II.
Émis en nombre limité, ce billet est une variante de l’actuel billet de 20 $ en polymère. Il intègre les mêmes éléments de sécurité (ce qui facilite sa vérification et complique sa contrefaçon), à ceci près que la bande transparente présente de nouveaux éléments visuels.
Le billet commémoratif circulera en parallèle avec l’actuel billet de 20 $ et sera distribué dès demain aux Canadiennes et aux Canadiens par l’entremise des institutions financières du pays.
Étant donné qu’ils sont émis en quantité relativement faible (5 % de la totalité des billets de 20 $ en circulation) et…
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