Igor Karpovich has joined Passport, a US-based mobile payments provider working in the parking and transportation industry. Karpovich has been named chief corporate... continue
AppyParking, the kerbside management platform, has added Ben Boutcher-West and Minesh Naran to its team. Ben Boutcher-West is AppyParking’s new head of mobility, a role that will see him... continue
Australian parking technology and management company Smart Parking has reported an increase in earnings, including an... continue
International Parking Systems (UK) is completing its first year of operations by moving into new, larger premises in... continue
APT Controls has changed its name to SWARCO UK. The parking system supplier is owned by the Austrian traffic technology group SWARCO, which is rationalising its legal entities as... continue
Conduent Incorporated has been recognised as a member of the Fortune 500, a ranking of America’s largest companies after just one year of operation. Companies on the list are ranked by Fortune Magazine according to their total revenue for the prior year. Conduent debuted at #466 with $6.02... continue
Hospital car parking will finally become free at all Welsh hospitals by the end of the year a decade after the Welsh Government announced this as its policy. The free hospital parking policy was announced by the then Welsh Health Minister Edwina Hart in March 2008. Most hospitals scrapped parking... continue
Aberdeen City Council has processed no penalty charge notice appeals this year, citing a backlog of cases caused by a high volume of appeals as the reason. None of more than 2,289 PCN appeals received between 1 January and 20 May had been dealt with, the council revealed to a Freedom of Information... continue
Coventry City Council is standing by a city centre parking control scheme that was criticised by the chief adjudicator of the Traffic Penalty Tribunal (TPT). The tribunal upheld a group of appeals by drivers who said a lack of signs and double yellow lines within the city centre Restricted Parking... continue
Highways England has awarded JBW group a new three-year contract for the recovery of unpaid penalties issued to drivers not paying to use the Dartford Crossing. JBW Group has been collecting these debts since the launch of the Dart Charge scheme in November 2014. It has now selected as one of two... continue
Brighton & Hove City Council has approved additional civil enforcement officers (CEOs) to patrol the roads around schools during drop-off and... continue
The order regulating the Mersey Gateway Bridge has been revised following a decision by the Traffic Penalty Tribunal (TPT), which hears appeals from drivers issued with penalties for non-payment of tolls. Charges for crossing the bridge are collected online or via phone rather than at traditional... continue
Donald Shoup, the US academic widely regarded as the world’s leading thinker on parking issues, is the editor of a new book... continue
The International Parking Community (IPC) has held the first of its new quarterly forums for local authority parking managers. The forum’s members include county, metropolitan and district authorities, including Birmingham City Council,... continue
Ealing Council is to discuss revising the pricing of residents’ parking permits to encourage the adoption of environmentally-friendly travel while deterring polluting vehicles. The parking permit reforms are proposed in a new transport strategy to be discussed by the West London... continue
There appears to be overwhelming support for a footway parking ban in Scotland, a report published by Transport Scotland suggests. The Improving Parking in Scotland report considers the views of stakeholders and individuals who answered a series of questions on... continue
A Private Member’s Bill seeking to prohibit charging for car parking at NHS hospitals for patients, staff and visitors in England will receive its second reading in the House of Commons on 15 June. The Hospital Car Parking Charges (Abolition) Bill 2017-19, sponsored by Robert Halton MP,... continue
Plans to improve overnight lorry parking and to ease traffic... continue
Drivers will be able to use remote control parking on... continue
Ross Murray has joined Park Assist as a project manager, Europe, based in the United Kingdom (UK). His background includes full-time military service in the Australian Army followed by ten years’ work in the civil, commercial, infrastructure and fit out construction sectors. Murray... continue
Paul Caddy, managing director of Phoenix Commercial Collections, has been elected to the board of the High Court Enforcement Officers Association (HCEOA). Caddy became an Authorised High Court Enforcement Officer in 2010, and has worked in debt recovery for 30 years. He spent 10 years on the... continue
Dave Coates has joined parking systems provider SolutionsLab as its business systems manager. The Hove-based company supplies the GoANPR, PermitShop.uk, PaymyPCN.net, Tap2Park and UCS debt recovery & fully managed litigation solution. Coates was previously head of sales and development at... continue
Julie Lennard has been appointed as the new chief executive of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), a role she has filled on an interim basis since March. Lennard is the... continue
A 300-space car park opened to the public at Market Harborough station in Leicestershire on the Midland Main Line on 18 June. The opening of new car park has enabled the existing one to... continue
Park & ride facilities at St Helens Junction station have been expanded and improved by Merseytravel. A new car park that opened on 14 May saw the number of bays available at the station go up from 66 to 240. The increased car parking spaces have built on Merseytravel land and the current... continue
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