Adelaide Member Meeting - 20th July 2011
NOTE THAT THIS MEETING WAS SCHEDULED FOR 22 JUNE AND HAS BEEN POSTPONED.
Location: Adelaide Convention Centre, North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000
Time: 5:00pm to 7.30pm
Topic: License Plate Recognition Technology integrated with Car Parking
Speakers: Nick Parker (Sensor Dynamics) and Leyon Parker (Hobart City Council)
The Hobart City council has about 3000 off- street spaces in multi storey car parks located on the immediate surrounds of its CBD retail centre. It has adopted a fee structure that heavily favours shopper and visitor short term stays to assist retailers to compete with suburban shopping malls with so called ‘free parking’.
Unfortunately such a fee structure can also attract city workers who are prepared to move their cars in and out of the car parks one or more times a day. Surveys of these car parks revealed up to 35% use by these workers often resulting in large queues of shoppers and visitors in surrounding streets waiting to enter the car parks. This problem exists all over Australia not only in Council car parks but wherever large shopping centre car parks are attractive to workers able to come and go a number of times daily.
LPR that can be integrated into a car park management system offers one of the most effective tools to deter such behaviour and will provide the Council with a far more cost effective solution than attempting to build more parking spaces to maintain the attraction of the CBD for shoppers. Leyon will be giving a presentation on the planned use of LPR in Hobart’s CBD multi- storey car parks.
This meeting is sponsored by Sensor Dynamics
Attendance is free to members of the PAA. One-time guests with a specific interest
in the Parking Industry are also welcome to attend.
After the function: a few of our members will relocate to the Regattas Bistro next
door to the Riverbank rooms. Feel free to join the group and continue networking!
