Finding your car made easy by colour
This art project, ‘Color Coordinated Parking’ conducted at California’s Southwestern College in 1994, sorted over 3,000 cars into parking lots determined by the colour of the vehicle. It’s a brilliant conceptual idea as well as a potentially useful marketing tool… but would it help you find where you parked your white Toyota Corolla in a […]
Retail shopping experiences start in the car park
We came across an article this week, written by Kevin Moore, CEO of Crossmark Australia, which talks about the experience of retail shopping. It draws upon Paco Underhill’s latest book, The Call of the Mall, which presents the concept of “retail theatre”. In the article, ‘Shopping should start in the carpark’, Moore discusses car manufacturer […]
Six steps to add value to your car park
We have recently published a presentation called ‘Six steps to add value to your car park’ on the presentation sharing site SlideShare. We are happy to provide this information to our clients and other interested parties as part of our contribution to the development of the parking industry. You can view the presentation online here: […]
Truck v Bollard
A retractable bollard, one metre high, 35cm across. It’s makers claim it is strong enough to stop a truck at full steam. See for yourself
The car park of the future? Part 1.
Aptera Motors are a designer and manufacturer of efficient commuter vehicles – based on principles of aerodynamics and lightweight material innovation. They recently committed to producing 100,000 of their three-wheeled electric cars on the road over the next 5 years. One of their design team took a little bit of initiative to see what it […]
Txt-a-park
Simple. You pay for parking with your mobile phone by sending a text message to the code that the parking machine tells you. You get billed to your phone bill. This is a world-first in offering pay-by-phone parking services that don’t require pre-registration.The kiwis seem to be on to something. Auckland City Council announced a […]
Could your car park benefit from a face lift?
Property owners and managers are always looking for opportunities to increase the value of – and earnings from – their existing portfolios. As a result of the current economic climate we are noticing a larger number of refurbishment projects being undertaken. Faced with increasing population and growth in vehicle usage, many retail centres with […]
Green Car Parks – An Oxymoron?
On the subject of improving the bottom line of your car parking assets, you may be interested to read the article published in two parts by Parking World Magazine (September and November 2008) written by Cristina Lynn. In the article, she outlines several initiatives that can be undertaken to improve the environmental footprint of your […]
Darwin International Airport case study
Darwin International Airport (DIA) requested PCI’s assistance with regards to the development of a parking strategy for the airport (passenger terminal, commercial and general aviation) over the next 20 – 25 years. This entailed identification of issues relating to the parking “offer”, both quantitative (size, product mix, pricing, location) and qualitative (look and feel). […]
Driven mad but…
One of the services we provide at PCI is advice regarding wayfinding and signage in car parks. Our approach when addressing this issue is to put ourselves in the client’s “seat” when looking for an available parking space and – often most importantly – when looking for their vehicle at the end of their […]
A park in a car
Spotted in Holland: an interesting twist on the green trend. A park in a car. This reminds us of the recent article we posted on Park(ING) Day in San Francisco. Both ideas embrace ‘reclaiming the streets and public spaces’ from cars for the people. We think that this is just the tip of the iceberg […]