T2 Systems Parking Blog

T2 Systems is happy to welcome Maria Irshad from the City of Houston to our Customer Advisory Board! Maria takes the place of long-time CAB member and fellow City of Houston employee, Liliana Rambo. 

Maria brings several years of experience and a wealth of industry knowledge to our organization. As the Deputy Assistant Director for the City of Houston Parking Management division, she has oversight and responsibility of all on-street parking operations. A division of the Administration...

Indianapolis, IN - February 22, 2013 - T2 continues on its path to becoming the premier parking management solutions provider in North America. With its highly successful Permits and Enforcement solution, eBusiness and Event Parking, coupled with a fully unified Parking and Revenue Control system, T2 can provide an effective, holistic portfolio of proven solutions that allow for comprehensive and practical management tools. 

On March 1, 2013, Tom Wunk, CAPP will join T2 Systems as VP of PARCS....

The innovative, forward thinking teams and the industry-leading technologies I get to work with at T2 constantly impress me. One of the most exciting ways we’re enhancing parking management is by way of virtual permits, or “permitless” systems.

T2 Flex™, our unified platform that brings all aspects of parking management into one smooth web-based application, is great at helping operators manage parking permissions across their organization. And since Flex can tie parking permissions, or permits,...

The goals of parking operations continue to be tighter transaction records, higher levels of customer service, sophisticated efficiency in the face of technological complexity, and securing more revenue with fewer resources. But with rising trends like mobile commerce, hosting and parking asset monetization changing the landscape of the industry, parking operations require an advanced set tools to meet their business needs now more than ever. T2 Flex™, the industry’s only unified suite for...

User Group?  Isn't that in November?  YES!  November 13 - 15 this year in Orlando, Florida.  Mark your calendars now to attend the biggest T2 event of the year.  The Training Department is hard at work to make this the best learning experience.  We're covering a wide variety of topics such as Enforcement, new Handheld ticket writers, financial reporting, care of your access and revenue control equipment, parking permit managment and the newest trends in parking.  There is something for everyone...

John Van Horn of Parking Today recently posted a piece on interoperability in parking management systems--that is, different vendors' components interfacing and working together--that compelled me to react. JVH asks, "Should Scheidt and Bachmann Software be able to run Skidata TDs and POFs?" He continues, "What is being proposed is that gates, dispensers, pay on foot machines and other peripherals are just that, peripherals, much like displays, keyboards, disk drives, and printers are on the...

As a suburbaner, I rarely frequent downtown Indy or areas with paid parking and public transportation. Working for a parking management software and technology company, my recent experience helped me understand the pains of our customers and their customers a little more intimately.

This week, I was downtown and decided to park in a garage because on-street parking is a recipe for a citation if you underestimate your time.

After my appointment, I was confused on how to pay for my parking. The...

Don't get me wrong - I love our customers and it's a great treat to see them at conferences and tradeshows. I also enjoy speaking to potential customers, and understanding how our parking solutions solve their problems. 

And yet walking the floor at Intertraffic last week as an attendee gave me the opportunity to learn and think more about the future of parking technology and the parking industry than I typically get at the shows in the US, where T2 is demonstrating our parking management system.

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Today’s parking operations need a solution that streamlines as much work as possible while providing managers with the information they need, when they need it. As the industry’s only completely unified solution, T2 Flex manages all aspects of parking – permits, citations, special event parking, and access and revenue control – ensuring users have all parking information in one complete system.

The unified approach to parking management is unmatched in the benefits it offers, and the latest T2...

T2 has always been a technology leader in the parking industry. We introduced the first parking enforcement product to support a graphic user interface and run on both Mac and PC in 1994. We were the first Oracle backend parking management software, awarded the On-Oracle certification in 1997. Then came PowerPark (remember PowerPark?!), the addition of Logic4U, our eBusiness solution, ePark, RoVR, PermitDirect, and our event module—all by 2004. Then we took the next big step forward when we...

Recently, JVH reported in Parking Today blog on the challenges legacy parking revenue control system manufacturers face as parking continues to evolve:

"Technology is moving at light speed. The advent of electronic purses, the ability to pay with a near field communication (NFC) equipped smart phone, GPS and video enabled enforcement technology, QR code scanners in everyone’s hands, transaction based business models, “apps” that “run” parking garages, the marketplace is awash with startups...

Like many industries, parking should be the last thing your customers (patients, guests and staff) worry about.

With the escalated costs associated with developing and maintaining parking lots and garages, the need to control costs is more imperative than ever. 

Implementing a sophisticated parking system: When and Why
Healthcare facilities, particularly those in urban areas, should be proactive in their approach to parking cost containment. 

Moving toward centralized reporting and unified parking...

This was a busy morning for my team. Mark was up a bit before midnight to do security updates in the PCI environment. Scot was up at 4:30 moving customers to newer, faster servers running the latest version of Oracle. I met Grant at the Hosting Facility at 6:30 to install a new server, decommission two older ones, and to meet the EMC engineer to install more drives in the SAN.

It was a busy morning, but we don't mind. That's what we do. We want our customers to be able to focus on managing...

We all know the benefits of a good employee training program; training has a positive effect on performance by allowing employees to learn advanced techniques to help them complete their everyday tasks more efficiently.  More efficient employees feel more valued and appreciated which leads to reduced turnover and less of a need for supervision.  Trained employees are motivated employees and the entire organization achieves its goals more readily.

Don't invest in your parking management software...

So, I've been with T2 Systems for 12 days now. I've jumped in feet first, and the water is great, folks!

I spent my second week at the 2011 T2 Systems User Group 'Training Camp' Conference. The event registration and information desk was, at times, the social hot spot. There was no better place to be to hear what people had to say about this conference.

As attendees went to their sessions, I took some notes on what people were sharing with me. I wanted to know, "What's all the buzz about this...

I was the lucky T2 Systems representative today at a ribbon-cutting ceremony that marked the launch of new pay-by-phone services in the City of Houston, Texas.  And by lucky - I do mean that! It was a pleasure to meet so many great people - our great customers at the city, our great Parkmobile partners, and Houston Mayor Annise Parker.

For those cities and municipalities out there that may be looking to upgrade and improve your parking solution and your parking management, Houston is an...

One of the cool features of the Canadian Parking Association annual conference is Lunch with a Parking Doctor, where delegates come with their parking management ailments and get a prescription for the cure from experienced professionals in the parking business. Sounds, great, doesn't it?

Since I have never managed a parking operation, and since my primary goal at the Conference is to meet with T2 customers and others in the industry to learn about trends and needs in parking enforcement, permit...