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Articles
AA tracking device to cut cost of car insurance
AA Insurance is offering to instal a small electronic device in customers’ cars that tracks driving behaviour. The Drivesafe device will help... continue
Categories: technology, The Enforcers, AA
Parking Review
Parking Policy
Drivers cut fuel consumption due to petrol and diesel costs
UK drivers have cut their fuel consumption by more than 15% since the credit crunch and recession. Record pump prices between April and June helped... continue
Categories: surveys, AA
Parking Review
Feature
Protecting private land
When a car is left without permission on private land, or overstays its allotted time in a public car park, it has been common for the site... continue
Categories: ANPR, appeals, clamping, debt recovery, enforcement, The Enforcers, AA, Approved operator scheme AOS, BPA, DfT, RAC Foundation, England, Wales
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Parking Policy
Rising cost of driving hits Londoners
The rising cost of motoring has led 24% of motorists in London to give up their car over the past 12 months, a survey suggests. By abandoning their... continue
Categories: reports, retail, surveys, AA, All of UK
Parking Review
Technology
AA works with Parkopedia on location app
The AA has launched a smartphone application designed to helping motorists find parking wherever they are in the UK and Ireland. The £1.79 app... continue
Categories: customer service, phone parking, technology, AA, All of UK
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Traffic Management
Road accidents fall to all-time low
Deaths on UK roads have fallen to below 2,000 for the first time ever according to Department for Transport provisional statistics for the 12-month... continue
Categories: surveys, The Enforcers, AA, All of UK
Parking Review
Congestion Lead Story
Time to start charging ahead
Mark Moran
All English local authorities need to have their third Local Transport Plan in place by April 2011, but the current economic and policy climate sees... continue
Categories: ANPR, congestion charging, consultants, enforcement, guidance (advice documents), local government, parking payment, Parliament & law, performance, political parties, reports, residents, signs & lines, technology, The Enforcers, Traffic Management Act 2004 (TMA), AA, BPA, CPRE, DfT, DVLA, Local government association, London Assembly, London Councils, TfL, All of UK
Parking Review
Editorial
Who is willing to lead the charge on new road charges?
Mark Moran
The coalition government is on a mission to reduce public sector spending. Reductions in spending of between 25% and 40% are widely anticipated once... continue
Categories: ANPR, congestion charging, guidance (advice documents), local government, parking payment, Parliament & law, political parties, residents, signs & lines, staff, AA, DfT, Local government association, London Assembly, London Councils, RAC Foundation, TfL, Westminster City Council, England, Wales
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Lead Story
Going, going, gone: End of the speed camera
Patrick McDonnell
Savage cuts government spending on road safety schemes could see thousands of speed cameras switched off across England and Wales. Speed cameras... continue
Categories: ANPR, appeals, crime, enforcement, financial results, funding, local government, Parliament & law, performance, police, political parties, procurement, safety, signs & lines, staff, surveys, technology, The Enforcers, Traffic Management Act 2004 (TMA), training and recruitment, AA, BPA, DfT, DVLA, TfL, England
Parking Review
Viewpoint
Council ‘levy plan’ scoop was just a damp squib
Mark Moran & Deniz Huseyin
Anyone reading the press or listening to the radio and TV news at the end of last month would have had good reason to believe that local authorities... continue
Categories: ANPR, appeals, clamping, customer service, debt recovery, enforcement, Rail, retail, signs & lines, The Enforcers, AA, Approved operator scheme AOS, BPA, DVLA, Home Office, RAC Foundation, East Anglia, East Midlands, East of England, Metropolitan Counties, North East England, North West England, South East England, South of England, South West England, West Midlands, Yorkshire and Humber
Parking Review
Letters
A defence of clamping
Grahame Rose
The government’s proposal to ban wheel clamping and towing on private land has not been thought through. It is a landowner’s right to... continue
Categories: ANPR, appeals, branding/marketing, clamping, enforcement, hospitals NHS, retail, signs & lines, The Enforcers, Traffic Management Act 2004 (TMA), training and recruitment, CP Plus, AA, Approved operator scheme AOS, BPA, DfT, Home Office, England
Parking Review
News Lead Story
President Brown launches BPA’s parking master plan
Mark Moran
New British Parking Association (BPA) president Graham Brown launched a Master Plan for Parking at a reception held at the House of Commons on 23... continue
Categories: airports, ANPR, appeals, clamping, crime, debt recovery, disabled parking (blue badge), enforcement, guidance (advice documents), hospitals NHS, local government, parking payment, Parliament & law, permits, signs & lines, The Enforcers, Traffic Management Act 2004 (TMA), training and recruitment, AA, Approved operator scheme AOS, BPA, DfT, Home Office, Local government association, London Assembly, London Councils, Mobilise, Parking & Traffic Appeals Service (PATAS), RAC Foundation, SIA, TfL, Traffic Penalties Tribunal, Women in Parking, All of UK
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Traffic Management Lead Story
AA’s route planner to offer car park locations
The Automobile Association’s online route planner is now incorporating car park information, not only for the end of the journey but also along... continue
Categories: customer service, technology, AA
Parking Review
Debates
Motorists publish their own manifesto
Parking enforcement is a highly emotive issue. Hardly a day goes by without a story in a newspaper somewhere detailing how an unfortunate motorist... continue
Categories: appeals, clamping, debt recovery, enforcement, local government, residents, signs & lines, The Enforcers, Traffic Management Act 2004 (TMA), AA, Approved operator scheme AOS, DfT, DVLA, RAC Foundation, TfL, Westminster City Council, All of UK
Parking Review
Parkex
BPA hospital charter launch at Parkex
This year’s Parkex sees the official launch of the British Parking Association (BPA) ‘Hospital Parking Charter’, which has been... continue
Categories: appeals, enforcement, hospitals NHS, parking payment, AA, BPA, RAC Foundation, All of UK
Parking Review
Enforcement News Lead Story
CCTV is a ‘flawed and unfair’ enforcement tool
The use of cameras to enforce parking is both underhand and unfair, the AA has stated. It is harder for drivers to collect evidence and mount a... continue
Categories: ANPR, enforcement, local government, signs & lines, technology, The Enforcers, Traffic Management Act 2004 (TMA), AA, DfT, DVLA, All of UK
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Transport
Pothole bills will soar with thaw, warns ICE
Local authorities are facing an expensive road repair due to the number of potholes created by the heavy snow falls and prolonged cold spells that... continue
Categories: car park design, construction and refurbishments, consultants, local government, maintenance and cleaning, procurement, signs & lines, surveys, AA, DfT, Local government association, RAC Foundation, TfL, All of UK
Parking Review
Editorial
Cold comfort as the snow drifts
When over 400 cars were abandoned in Basingstoke by drivers caught in heavy snow falls on 21 December the vulnerability of Britain’s road... continue
Categories: local government, maintenance and cleaning, procurement, residents, safety, signs & lines, AA, DfT, RAC Foundation, All of UK
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Crime
Car theft warning is ‘advert to thieves’, says AA
An anti-theft awareness scheme in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, has drawn criticism from  the AA for being “an advert to thieves”. Kent... continue
Categories: crime, maintenance and cleaning, parking payment, police, signs & lines, AA, South East England
Parking Review
Debates
Parking Review is 20 years old
Parking Review is celebrating its 20 birthday next month. The parking sector’s leading news magazine was launched in 1989 and has established... continue
Categories: acquisitions, airports, ANPR, appeals, awards, A-Z of Parking Management, branding/marketing, car clubs, car park design, charity, clamping, conferences/events/exhibitions, congestion charging, construction and refurbishments, consultants, contracts, crime, customer service, cycles & bikes, debt recovery, disabled parking (blue badge), enforcement, financial results, funding, green parking, guidance (advice documents), hospitals NHS, industrial relations, local government, maintenance and cleaning, manufacturers, mergers, multi-storey, new car parks, park & ride, parking payment, Parliament & law, people, performance, permits, phone parking, police, political parties, procurement, Rail, residents, retail, safety, signs & lines, staff, surveys, technology, The Enforcers, Traffic Management Act 2004 (TMA), training and recruitment, Parking Review, AA, BPA, DfT, Europe, Greater London, Ireland, Metropolitan Counties, North East England, North West England, Rest of World, Scotland, South East England, South of England, South West England, Wales, West Midlands, Yorkshire and Humber
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