Parking World looks at the car in the city

12 November, KIA Oval, London

The relationship between the car and the city very much at the heart of this year’s Parking World event, which takes place at the KIA Oval. Over the past 11 years the annual conference and exhibition, programmed by the Parking Review team, has taken a wide-ranging and thought-provoking approach that recognises parking is variously a key transport policy and traffic management tool, a public service and a business activity.

Parking World is the backbone of a major ‘Intelligent City Mobility’ event that includes The Car & the City and Space & Place.

• Parking World 2015: Parking World looks at issues such as civil parking enforcement, partnership working, the emergence of new parking markets and new technologies.
• The Car & the City: The Car & the City seminar looks at trends such as the ‘connected car’, electric vehicles, the sharing economy and autonomous vehicles.
• Space & Place: Space & Place looks at how innovative approaches to public engagement can help deliver towns centres that are more accessible and viable.

The day starts with a plenary that will be followed by a series of parallel streams which encompass themes such as the managing the car in the city, autonomous vehicles, effective public consultation and project implementation, better parking management, enforcement and technology.

This year’s Parking World will look at key policy and operational topics such as civil parking enforcement, the pavement parking ban, Blue Badge fraud prevention and the value of partnership working in delivering effective back offices.

There will be expert presentations on the optimal pricing of parking and a look at new research on the realities of attempting to use ‘free’ parking to stimulate High Street trade.

For those running both on-street and off-street operations, there will be an expert panel on how to ‘future proof’ parking operations which will look at the best way to specify and procure payment and management systems.

The Car & the City is a series of landmark debates that look at themes such as autonomous vehicles, in-car guidance systems, parking apps, shared cars, all manifestations of the world of ‘Intelligent Mobility’ (IM). 

More than a buzzword, IM describes the use of emerging technologies to enable the smarter, greener and more efficient movement of people and goods. IM approaches enable cities to meet challenges such as traffic congestion, pollution, social exclusion and the historic lack of connection between different modes of transport. 

Rather than taking a traditional modal approach to planning and providing transport solutions, IM recognises that drivers, passengers, pedestrians, cyclists are not different species but, potentially, can be all these things from day to day and even within one journey. IM approaches enable people to select and use the most appropriate mode for the specific journey they need to undertake by providing better information, genuine choices and a means to calculate the cost of travel.

Using pilot schemes and engagement techniques as a way of piloting innovative or controversial traffic management schemes will be covered in depth in the Space & Place strand, which offers a forum for urban design, transport planning and property professionals.

The conference ends with a series of City Case Studies where delegates from Parking World, The Car & the City and Space & Place will come back together to listen to stories from UK and international cities that have developed and implemented policies such as: speed restrictions, car-free streets, cycle schemes, car clubs, park & ride schemes, maximum parking standards, etc.

Throughout the day delegates will be able to network in an exhibition hall showcasing the latest parking, street scene and cycling systems as well as management and consultancy services.

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Speakers confirmed so far...

• Nick Anderson, New Project Development, Transport Systems Catapult
• Jason Barbour, Managing Director, Barbour Logic
• Rohan Bloice, Business Development Manager, ADVAM UK
• David Birkbeck, Chief Executive, Design for Homes
• Martyn Briggs, Industry Principal, Mobility, Automotive and Transportation, Frost & Sullivan
• Harry Clarke, Commercial Director, RingGo
• Max Crane-Robinson, Commercial Director, NCP
• John Dales, Director, Urban Movement
• Oliver Davey, Traffic Engineer, Urban Movement
• Helen Dolphin MBE, Director of Policies and Campaigns, Disabled Motoring UK
• Lynn Donnelly, Blue Badge Manager, East Sussex County Council
• Iain Forbes, Head of the DfT-BIS Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Joint Policy Unit
• Ade Ford, Head of Sales - Civil Enforcement, Siemens
• Noel Frost, Chief Executive and Commercial Director, Zenco Systems
• Phil Goodwin, Professor of Transport Policy, University College London and University of the West of England
• David Graham, Head of Strategy (Workplaces and Schools), Living Streets
• Joe Green, Smarter Choice Manager, Sustrans (West Midlands)
• Richard Harris, Transport and Government, Xerox
• Yvonne Harvey, Blue Badge Senior, Brighton & Hove City Council
• Sampo Hietanen, Founder, Mobillity as a Service, Helsinki, Finland
• Dan Hubert, Chief Executive and Co-Founder, Appy Parking
• Vanessa Kelly, Major Infrastructure Delivery Officer, Cambridgeshire County Council
• Dr Rachel Lee, Policy & Research Coordinator, Living Streets
• Nick Lester-Davis, Corporate Director of Services, London Councils & President, European Parking Association
• Jon Little, Complementary Measures Manager: Mini-Holland, Waltham Forest Council
• Gerry Keaney, Chief Executive, BVLRA
• Brian Matthews, Head of Transport Stratey and Programmes, Milton Keynes Council
• Professor John Miles, Chairman of the UK Automotive Council Working Group on Intelligent Mobility and Arup/RAEng Res Chair, Transitional Energy Strategies, Cambridge University
• John McArdle, Independent parking consultant
• Dr Steve Melia, Senior Lecturer in Transport and Planning, University of the West of England
• Paul Moorby, Managing Director, Chipside
• Dr Peter Nieuwenhuis, Co-director, Centre for Automotive Industry Research & Electric Vehicle Centre of Excellence
• Ian Patey, Chairman, ITS UK Connected Vehicle Interest Group and Business Unit Director, Technology, Mouchel
• Professor John Polak, Chair, Centre for Transport Studies and Director, Urban Systems Laboratory, Imperial College London
• Andrew Potter, Technical Director, WSP/Parsons Brinckerhoff
• Chris Reeves, Commercial Manager for Future Transport Technologies, HORIBA MIRA
• Grahame Rose, Director of Development, CP Plus
• Joseph Seal-Driver, Director, DriveNow UK
• John Siraut, Director, Economics, Jacobs
• Ben Stephens, Head of Bromley and Bexley Shared Parking Service
• Peter Stonham, Chairman, Landor LINKS
• Richard Talbot, Principal, The Railway Consultancy