May 23, 2013

You’ve likely heard it before: experts estimate that 30% of urban traffic is caused by drivers circling the block looking for a space.

So, what’s the difference between searching for parking with real-time parking availability vs. good-old-fashioned luck?

Read More: [INFOGRAPHIC] Parking: The Good, The Bad, The Brilliant →

May 13, 2013

If there was one unifying gripe that students have about their campuses (beyond the yearning for better food options), it would be the more often than not, painful process of finding a parking space. Today, more than ever, students are commuting, or residing and bringing their cars onto campus. This creates a high influx of vehicles during peak hours, and the perception of inadequate number of spaces on campus.

May 9, 2013

The past few weeks we’ve been working on putting together a webinar on “The Road to Smarter Parking” with our Head of Sales for the Americas Greg Fiorindo, and yesterday we presented said webinar to a number of folks from cities and universities of varying sizes.

Here are the basic concepts attendees left with to get started on the road to smarter parking.

May 8, 2013

Design creates ambiance: it plays a critical role on how we view and interact with a product, experience, or place – and even beyond that – it effects our mood and thinking. That’s pretty powerful.

April 19, 2013

Dear Friends, Customers, and Partners,

When you witness the momentum in parking – from the industry itself, to mainstream media and the public – it’s hard to imagine that this market just came about only a few years ago. It was a wide-open frontier. Now, I believe we’re at a crossroads: smart parking is beginning to cross the chasm. But if you haven’t started down the road to smarter parking, where do you begin?

April 15, 2013

Mayor Bloomberg and NYCDOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan announced a smart parking program for New York City featuring Streetline’s technology in the Belmont Business Improvement District in the Bronx. Drivers will need to find a space before going to their destination, which is where Streetline’s sensors and apps come in handy to show where open spaces are.

April 11, 2013

In a recent interview with the Huffington Post, former Apple CEO and tech investor John Sculley discussed the state of innovation at Apple and trends to look for in the coming years. In the interview, Sculley speculated on what Steve Jobs would be focused on today:

April 3, 2013

Last month, Transportation Nation reported that Washington, D.C.’s Office of Planning may submit a proposal to the zoning commission recommending that the City do away with parking minimums. These minimums, which require residential and commercial developers to build-in a specified amount of new parking, have been in place and unchanged since 1958. Several other cities, including Portland, Oregon and many of the San Francisco Bay Area cities have either seriously reconsidered or abolished these minimums.

March 22, 2013

Dear Friends, Customers, and Partners,

Bruce Kasanoff’s “When is an opportunity worth pursuing?” reminds us to not undermine the power behind ideas. That of course is where creativity, innovation, and opportunity are rooted. However, the real value of an idea is whether there’s a true opportunity. What was his example of an opportunity? Streetline’s smart parking.

March 21, 2013

Smart parking continues to become available in additional areas in the UK. Manchester’s vibrant Northern Quarter and Chinatown now have 230 parking spaces instrumented with our patented sensor technology, along with real-time apps and analytics to help the City better manage their parking.

March 12, 2013

Yesterday we unveiled a smart parking package with MacKay Meters that includes single space parking meters, sensors, and a full suite of parking applications. The ready-to-install solution makes it easy for cities, universities, parking providers, transit agencies, and more to get the latest in smart parking technology with one single solution.

March 7, 2013

You’ve likely heard the societal and environmental impacts caused by a lack of parking: driver frustration, increased greenhouse gas emissions, lost sales for merchants, lost sales tax revenue for the city, and so forth.

February 26, 2013

Today, our European and East Coast team were awake anxiously waiting for the Global Mobile Awards winners to be revealed. Meanwhile, our headquarters team in Foster City, California actually woke up to the great news announced in Barcelona this afternoon: the Global Mobile Awards, which recognizes excellence and innovation within the mobile communications industry, selected Parker as the Best Mobile Innovation for ‘Smart Cities’!

February 20, 2013

Dear Friends, Customers, and Partners,

If you look at a city, restaurant, university, or coffee shop’s website, you’ll likely come across parking information. You may even find that parking has its own dedicated tab. That’s because they all recognize that visitors want to know beforehand where they can park, and that if parking is difficult – some people may not visit at all.

February 19, 2013

Each month more cities are offering our smart parking solutions for their residents and visitors. We announced our expansion into Birmingham, UK last month, and this month we’re excited to tell you about the new parking programs in Venice Beach, California and Jacksonville, Florida.

February 15, 2013

We’re always striving to find new ways to improve Parker™ and are continually adding features and options that make it easier and more intuitive for our users. With several new European cities recently coming on board, we’ve focused  the latest release (3.0.4 for both iOS and Android) to include more internationalization and localization features. Here are the highlights of what’s new:

February 12, 2013

The ParkerMap is something we’ve envisioned for some time now, so we are very excited to announce it today. But what is the ParkerMap exactly, you ask?

February 8, 2013

After receiving over 600 entries for 37 awards, the GSMA Global Mobile Awards judges – which consisted of independent experts, journalists, analysts academics and in some instances mobile operator representatives – named our app Parker by Streetline a Smart Cities category finalist.

January 29, 2013

Since being named IBM Global Entrepreneur of the Year in 2010, we’ve been honored to be working alongside the company and their Smarter Planet vision.

January 21, 2013

When online magazine GOOD asked us to take readers behind the design of our app Parker™, we were really excited. So our CEO Zia Yusuf and Senior Product Manager of Parker Raoul Kahn shared their story of inspiration and design principles of our award-winning app. In the article, App Marks the Spot: How We Designed Tech to Find Open Parking, Zia and Raoul talk about how parking is one of the great unsolved urban challenges.

Smart parking isn’t the only thing that will transform city life. Here are a few fascinating trends coming to a city near you. 

The world’s population is rapidly growing, particularly in urban areas. According to the UN, by 2050 69% of the world’s population (or 6.3 billion people) will live in urban areas (as compared to 50% or 3 billion today). In order to accommodate this rapidly growing population, cities must do some serious strategic planning both on the housing front and building efficient and sustainable infrastructure to support these residents.

This is a very exciting time of innovation in which we can start connecting everything around us through the “Internet of Everything” (IoE). Cisco and Streetline are leading a variety of enterprises involved in building smart parking infrastructure that will benefit cities, merchants, drivers and pedestrians alike.

January 7, 2013

Students at Oregon State University (OSU) are returning to school with a New Year’s present. Sensors were installed in 75 ADA accessible parking spaces to detect real-time availability and display it via Streetline’s free smartphone app, Parker™.

Dear Friends, Customers, and Partners,

I cannot believe that we are already coming to the end of 2012. What a year it has been for Streetline and the smart city/smart parking industry.

First of all, I want to wish all of you a wonderful holiday season and the very best for 2013.

 The Intelligent Transportation Society of America presented Streetline with the Smart Solution Spotlight Award to honor our integrated smart parking solutions that effectively manage parking availability, policy, and pricing, which can contribute to a vibrant economy, happy citizens, and a clean environment.

From San Mateo and San Carlos in the heart of Silicon Valley, California to Ellicott City, Maryland and Braunschweig, Germany, cities large and small are on the road to smart parking. Using Parker™, drivers can easily find and pay for parking on and off-street, and even get voice guidance with a tap of a button. Stay tuned as several additional European and US real time locations are on the way.

To bring a complete smart parking solution to our customers, Streetline partners with a variety of market leaders to further enhance the smart parking solutions available to customers globally. We’ve been working with revolutionary companies such as Siemens, IBM, Xerox, and Citi … and, we’re pleased to announce the newest members of our smart parking ecosystem: Amano McGann and Telefónica!