parking

01/09/2011

Volunteer traffic wardens could be recruited to help deal with parking problems in Weston-super-mare.

29/09/2011

APT Skidata  has won the contract to provide an integrated parking system at Hilton Worldwide’s new Heathrow Terminal 5 property.

04/07/2012

The parking enforcement division in Mid Devon lost more than £46,000 last year, according to figures from the local council.

17/07/2012

Metric Parking has won a tender to supply solar and hybrid powered pay and display parking machines for a new council car park for hospital visitors and staff.

16/08/2012

Westminster council has launched a pilot scheme to help drivers find on-street parking spaces in central London.

13/09/2012

Shocking CCTV footage has emerged of the moment a traffic warden was karate-kicked in the head.

09/01/2013

Councils in England made over £411m in parking charges last year - an increase of 14.9% on the previous year.

13/02/2013

Almost 350,000 parking fines totalling £23m may have been unlawfully issued to motorists in London.

04/04/2013

South Gloucestershire Council is taking a firmer line with parking rules after drivers were accused of abusing relaxed regulations.

16/04/2013

Double yellow lines have been painted in an alleyway in Swindon that is too narrow to drive down.

29/07/2013

Motorists could be allowed to park on double yellow lines for up to 15 minutes under plans mooted by the Conservatives.

21/08/2013

Transport for London (TfL) is consulting Londoners on a proposal to increase parking time from 20 to 30 minutes at 600 Stop and Shop parking bays across the capital.

27/09/2013

The use of fixed cameras and CCTV vehicles to catch people parking illegally in the UK could be banned.

20/11/2013

Mayor of London Boris Johnson has announced parking times will be increased at 600 parking bays across the capital.

10/04/2014

The Local Government Association (LGA) has warned against plans to ban CCTV parking cameras.

09/05/2014

Traffic technology group Swarco has acquired the APT group of companies, creating one of the largest traffic and parking management systems businesses in Europe.

23/06/2014

The government is set to ban the use of CCTV ‘spy cars’ in an effort to rein-in over zealous parking enforcement practices.  

01/09/2014

Local residents and businesses could be given powers to challenge councils over the use of yellow lines and unfair parking charges.

23/02/2015

Motorists could be entitled to tens of millions of pounds in refunds after the RAC Foundation discovered that thousands of drivers are likely to have been illegally penalised for parking too long on private land.

06/03/2015

Drivers will now get a 10-minute grace period before being given a parking ticket under new measures introduced by the government.

08/06/2015

A CCTV camera car costing £40,000 will be used to catch motorists who park illegally and ignore traffic regulations in Cardiff, Wales.

14/09/2015

North Lincolnshire Council has been fined £160,000 after a man died when his car drove into a horizontal swing barrier gate to a car park at a sports ground.

03/12/2015

New technology that could eliminate the issue of inconsiderate drivers parking in disabled bays is being trialled by Westminster Council.

07/03/2016

Intertraffic Amsterdam – the international trade fair for infrastructure, ITS traffic management, safety and parking – is less than a month away.

04/04/2016

The organiser of Intertraffic Amsterdam says the 2016 show will be the biggest ever, with more than 800 exhibitors and 27,000 visitors.

13/04/2016

Almost half of motorists are in favour of residents’ parking schemes despite realising they just shift the problem to another area.

13/12/2016

Westminster had the largest parking surplus in 2015/16 of £55.9 million with the amount of money left over from council parking operations during this period reaching a record high of £756m.

22/02/2017

Apps that notify motorists of congestion and available parking spaces, and real time journey information for visually impaired passengers, are just some of the projects that will receive a share of £4 million government technology funding.

02/02/2018

A society of public sector IT practitioners has accused council parking services of failing when it comes to online information and services, with disabled drivers in particular losing out.

17/05/2018

Dave Smith, head of public affairs and research at the British Parking Association gives readers the lowdown on the latest international moves to provide drivers with a better parking experience and authorities with better information.

11/06/2018

The Scottish Government's long-awaited Transport Bill aims to ban pavement parking and strengthen the powers of the country’s roadworks tsar.

09/07/2018

Reading Borough Council is proposing a raft of measures to tackle congestion and air pollution, including a possible workplace parking levy.

16/07/2018

A major alliance of transport and planning groups has called for the Government to allow councils to set maximum parking standards for their areas under potential changes to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), in order to combat urban sprawl and congestion.

27/07/2018

The Government's revised National Planning Policy Framework has left local transport planners with enough wriggle room to support limiting parking spaces for major developments, senior sources have told Highways.

03/09/2018

The Department for Transport has responded to criticism from charity leaders who have accused ministers of stalling on the issue of pavement parking.

19/09/2018

In the Talking Transport podcast for Wednesday, SMART Highways editor Paul Hutton talks new ways of enforcement, automated valet parking, carmakers’ views on mobility and gets a Chinese perspective on connectivity.

03/10/2018

London’s boroughs have made the business case for their parking management, with a new report that estimates that it is worth £3.58bn per year to the capital’s economy.

14/11/2018

The number of penalty charge notices issued by London’s highway authorities rose by 10% during the last financial year.

26/11/2018

The Government has backed a ‘one-stop shop’ for appeals for private parking fines, with the legislation approved by MPs.

20/12/2018

The Department for Transport (DfT) has launched a £500,000 competition focused on opening up local authority parking and traffic management data.

09/01/2019

Council chiefs have defended themselves after new research revealed local authorities have increased their revenue from parking charges by nearly £170m in five years, while simultaneously cutting road improvements.

23/01/2019

A recent study used figures from the Civil Aviation Authority, airport booking sites and Google search data to analyse UK airport parking demand.

07/02/2019

Gatwick Airport plans to trial a robotic valet car parking system later this year and has put in a planning application to Crawley Borough Council for the necessary structures.

11/03/2019

Latest trends suggest councils in England could be set for a £1bn parking income by the end of the decade.

25/03/2019

For those who choose to ignore parking penalties, things are set to become a lot more uncomfortable as authorities join forces.

07/08/2019

Councils fined motorists £1.6bn last year –equivalent to £200,000 an hour – it has been reported.

09/09/2019

The Government should introduce an outright ban on pavement parking across England, MPs have said today in a new report.

17/10/2019

Birmingham City Council is to take forward work to develop a workplace parking levy after cabinet members backed the plan.

01/11/2019

Watford Borough Council’s parking team has introduced a virtual permit system for its Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) restrictions, which allows parking officers to scan vehicle registrations to carry out enforcement. 

06/11/2019

From the effective management of low emission zones, free flow tolling and congestion charging, to advanced data analytics and connectivity, the parking sector is not standing still when it comes to intelligent transport and smart mobility solutions, as Imperial’s managing director Ashley Bijster explains.