GREENING Your Parking Operation Texas Parking Association Presented by: Michael Civitelli Walker Parking Consultants April, 2010 © Copyright Walker Parking Consultants, 2010 All rights reserved.

Greening Your Parking Operation What do you think of when you hear “greening” your parking operation? OR

Greening Your Parking Operation Facility Consumables Maintenance Vehicle movements

Greening Your Parking Operation Facility Have you considered an automated parking facility?

Greening Your Parking Operation Facility – Lighting Reduce power consumption AND improve light levels

Greening Your Parking Operation Facility “It’s dark in here and I can’t see the signs…”

Greening Your Parking Operation Facility – Surface Lot and On-Street Parking Design - reduce the “heat island effect” Shade systems – Can add solar element if needed – Creates desirable parking Solar powered auto pay stations

Solar Shade Panels

Greening Your Parking Operation Consumables – Office Supplies

Greening Your Parking Operation Consumables – Tickets Magnetic Stripe vs. Barcode vs. Ticketless

Greening Your Parking Operation Consumables – Tickets Going ticketless – Other media, access cards, chips, AVI, encoded permits – Credit card in and out

Greening Your Parking Operation

Maintenance – Chemicals – Paints – Water capture during steam cleaning or pressure washing

Greening Your Parking Operation Vehicle Movements – Parking Availability – Parking Guidance Systems – Priority Parking

Greening Your Parking Operation Vehicle movements – Parking Availability

Greening Your Parking Operation Vehicle parking movements – Parking Guidance Systems

Greening Your Parking Operation Vehicle parking movements – Priority Parking Carpools Hybrids

Greening Your Parking Operation Parking Fee Discounts for hybrid / low emissions vehicles? – Who is in, who is out? – On street free parking For the time limit or for the day – Reduced permit price or preferential parking

Greening Your Parking Operation Vehicle egress, reduce idling – Reduce and eliminate lines at exit “Anti-idling” policies where ground transportation is operating (shuttles, busing, taxi cabs)

Greening Your Parking Operation Car Sharing

Parking Operations Vehicles - how are they powered? Customers with electric vehicles - do you provide charging stations? Greening Your Parking Operation Photo of charging station in Lake Oswego, Oregon, from The Oregonian, March 2010

Greening Your Parking Operation Parking Operations – What strategies, methods, or tools have you deployed to be more GREEN?

“It ain’t easy being green…”

You might get called a …

If you do it right you could see … “Pro-environment parking is an award winner…” “…firm wins award for sustainable streets and parking lots…” Reduced costs + new customers + good PR =