Glossary: Top Parking and Mobility Industry Terms You Need to Know in 2025
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The parking and mobility industry is constantly evolving, making it challenging for newcomers and enthusiasts to keep pace. Staying informed about industry trends and key terminology is essential for parking facility managers, owners, and operators. This glossary is designed to simplify the jargon and provide clarity in this dynamic sector, serving as a valuable tool for anyone looking to deepen their understanding.
2025 Insights: Strategic Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Planning for Canadian Parking Facilities
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Electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming increasingly popular in Canada as the country aims to achieve its 2050 zero-emissions goal. This makes now the ideal time for parking facility operators to prepare their facilities for this transition
Accessibility: Parking Pay Stations and Kiosks
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Parking pay stations (or kiosks) play an integral role in permitting someone to park at a facility.
Everywhere at Once: Virtualizing the Customer Experience
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Parking facilities are becoming more sophisticated and promising greater customer experiences all the while continuing to deliver exceptional value to owners and operators.
Regain Revenue with Flexible Permit Options
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Recurring revenue from monthly permit subscriptions in most cases has , if not eliminated; causing parking technology providers to develop flexible, alternative permit options.
How Parking Technology Reduces Your Carbon Footprint
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Today’s parking technologies offer a number of benefits that help to reduce traffic and minimize pollution in our cities. Learn more about why our parking tools are a greener choice.
Why Smart Parking Leads To Smarter Cities
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Parking in a busy city can be stressful if the right systems aren't in place. Learn some of the ways smarter parking tools can improve parking in your city.
Why Your Long-Term Parking Strategy Should Continue to Be Top of Mind
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With the pandemic shifting dynamics across every industry, it’s essential for parking operators to rethink their parking strategies now and into the future.
The Benefits of a SaaS Parking Solution
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Learn more about the benefits of implementing a SaaS parking solution and the cost-effective opportunities it provides for your overall parking strategy.
Sign of the Times: Precise ParkLink Launches ‘Touchless Parking Solutions’
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Canada’s first zero-contact gated parking solutions are now available.
How Technology Can Solve Recent Parking Concerns in Public Parks
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Parks have been filled to the brim with visitors. The influx of visitors has become a cause of concern and resulted in a handful of issues for parking authorities and municipalities.
Touchless Parking Solutions to Help Businesses Adapt to Today’s Reality
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As the world continues to adapt to a rapidly changing environment, day-to-day parking interactions will need to be reimagined to minimize contact while still optimizing visitor and staff journeys through parking facilities.
Frictionless Parking: Promoting Public Health During This Pandemic
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During this public health crisis, frictionless parking can play an important role by dramatically reducing the number of common touch-points within a garage or parking lot.
Parking Harmony – Where Paid Parking and Free Parking Live Together
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While it may be counterintuitive to offer free parking, a balance must be struck to keep harmony between customers, merchants, and parking initiatives.
The Future of Frictionless Parking Solutions
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With the rapid development of technology and licence plate recognition (or LPR), some lots have advanced to ticketless parking where LPR is employed to uniquely identify a customer upon entry.
Frictionless Parking: Promoting Campus Public Health During This Pandemic
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In recent years many colleges and universities have turned to frictionless parking to better manage campus parking facilities.
Must-have Features for Your Mobile Parking Payment App
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Recent trends in the Canadian parking market indicate that drivers prefer to use mobile parking apps that resemble the user-friendly and familiar experience offered at a parking meter.
Why Contactless Parking Is More Important Than Ever
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As businesses begin to reopen the importance of safer, more sanitary processes continues to be a priority as we navigate through the current pandemic.
Smart Cities and the Role Parking Technology Will Play
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With parking being one of the largest revenue sources for a city, parking technology will play a large role in the creation of smarter infrastructure to give you the analytics you need to grow operations.
sweb® Mobile Pay: Safely and at a distance, pay instantly for parking from your mobile device. No app, no registration.
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sweb Mobile Pay is the smart, easy and safe way for your parking guests to directly pay with their own smartphone.