4 Technologies to Enhance the Airport Parking Experience
Posted: Aug, 27, 2024 9:21AM ET • 4 min read
Airport parking can be an overwhelming experience for travellers, providing them with an effortless parking experience can result in them becoming reoccurring customers as opposed to finding alternative options for parking or navigating to the airport. We have determined three technologies to integrate into your airport parking to enhance the overall experience.
1. Enhancing Accessibility and Convenience with Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
As the number of electric vehicle owners continues to grow so does the demand for electric vehicle charging stations. Airports can provide a variety of EV charging station options for their visitors. Airports can cater to this demand by offering a variety of EV charging options:
Long-term Parking: Install standard charging stations where vehicles can be fully charged over the duration of a traveller's trip.
Short-term Parking: Provide fast or ultra-fast charging options for those waiting to pick up passengers, ensuring their vehicles can be quickly charged.
Commercial Vehicles: Equip specific areas with fast charging stations for electric taxis and buses, facilitating quick turnarounds.
By offering these facilities, airports can deter EV owners from using alternative parking lots that provide charging options.
2. Frictionless Parking Facility Entry and Exit Using License Plate Recognition (LPR) Technology
A frictionless parking solution not only eliminates various touch-points for customers but also acts as an added level of security for your parking facility. Using license plate recognition (LPR) technology allows facility managers to determine who is provided access and who is denied access entry to the parking facility. Facility managers can define lists for further access control and security, such as block lists, notification lists, and access lists. Additionally, systems can track vehicle movements and generate customer parking patterns, usage, and violations.
License plate recognition can provide improved efficiency for the entry and exit process, reducing the overall wait times and congestion within the parking facility. It can simplify the process for visitors by eliminating the need for physical tickets and permits and can integrate with mobile payment platforms for a seamless experience.
3. Mobile Parking Payment Platform for Simplified Transactions and Access
Integrating a mobile payment platform can eliminate the need to visit a pay station or pay at the exit gate, enabling visitors to manage their parking stay on the go through their mobile device. But that’s not all, most platforms allow visitors to reserve a spot ahead of time, saving valuable time by eliminating the need to search for available spots during peak hours. Allowing customers to spend less time in queues waiting to enter the facility or pay to exit will ultimately provide them with a better airport parking experience.
4. Improving Navigation and Wayfinding Through Smart Parking Guidance Systems
Navigating to an available parking stall can be time-consuming and tedious, installing a parking guidance system with a smart camera can direct visitors to an available parking space quickly and easily. Parking guidance systems not only illuminate above the stall if it’s available or not, they can also be integrated with digital signage and vehicle locator software. Digital signage can be placed at the entrance to the parking facility to let visitors know which levels have availability, while vehicle locator software can help visitors find their vehicle easily, all they have to do is input their vehicle license plate and the system pinpoints the exact location of their parked vehicle.
At Precise ParkLink, we offer integrated parking solutions that meet your organization’s unique needs. Submit the inquiry form below to learn more about what we have to offer.
References
Precise ParkLink. (n.d.-b). Electric vehicle charging stations - precise ParkLink: Parking management services. Precise ParkLink | Parking Management Services. https://www.preciseparklink.com/ps-electric-vehicle-charging-station-solutions
ParkLink, P. (2022, August 22). How parking guidance systems can help customers remember where they parked. Parking Industry. https://www.parkingindustry.ca/parking-technology/how-parking-guidance-systems-can-help-customers-remember-where-they-parked?rq=airport
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Terry Faye
Account Executive
As an account executive, Terry is responsible for the sale of equipment, applications, and services on behalf of Precise ParkLink. He regularly meets with his clients to understand their challenges and design solutions that leverage our strengths to address their concerns and maximize their revenues.
With nearly a decade of parking industry experience with Precise ParkLink, Terry has developed an in-depth knowledge of several verticals as well as effective management techniques and equipment solutions to increase client profitability. What’s more, he continually adds to his own knowledge base through his membership in the Ontario Traffic Council, the Canadian Parking Association, the Building Owners and Managers Association, and the Airport Managers Council.
Before joining Precise ParkLink in 2011, Terry had already built a four-decade-long career in technology sales and application solution design. After studying drafting at Conestoga College, he went on to become heavily involved in the construction business, especially in the areas of estimating and implementing projects. With his naturally technically inclined mind, Terry has also become proficient in central office phone and data exchanges, PBX equipment, and satellite and data networking solutions, and he is the joint holder of a patent for an electronic diagnostics system for air brakes — if it has to do with technology application solutions, Terry has mastered it.
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