Integrating Systems in Parking Management

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Integrating Systems in Parking Management

• Utilizing Data to Maximize Performance

Peter Lange Associate Director
Canadian Parking Association Quebec City 09
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About AM

• Texas first public institution of higher
  learning
• Land-Grant, Sea-Grant and Space-Grant university
• Sixth-largest university in enrollment
• 12,000 faculty/staff, 49,000 students
• One of largest campuses 5200 acres
• Home to George Bush Presidential Library and
  Museum

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About Transportation Services

• 36,310 parking spaces
• 5 Garages
• 79 buses operating approximately 117,000 hours
  each year and 1.4 million service miles
• Ridership over 5 million/yr
• 73 lanes of equipment
• 380 cameras

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Our Philosophy

• Technology is best when it is invisible

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If we can show them the facts, we will win!

• Data, data everywhere
• Can you get to it?
• Is it accurate?
• Timely?

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Lions and tigers and dashboards, oh my!
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Unified Parking Management
Permits. Collections. Processing. Signs.
Off-street. On-street. Gates. The parking system
of the future will bring all of these systems
together under one operating platform.
Linda Kauffman, Executive Director
(Retired), Allentown Parking Authority
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UCG 14 Lanes 7 Pay Locations
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The Data Warehouse

• A data warehouse is a repository for information.
• It stores data. It stores information about
  data.
• It retrieves information from authoritative
  sources in batch or real-time.
• It provides the ability to perform business
  analysis searches and queries on the data.

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Two Approaches to Interoperability

• The data warehouse introduces a central component
  to interact with systems.
• More scalable
• Establishes a standard

System A
System B
Data Warehouse
System C
System D
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PERMITS
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The Data Fairy

• What type of investment does it take to provide
  this level of data?
• Personnel
• Hardware

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Integrating Systems in Parking Management

• Peter Langeplange_at_tamu.edu
• http//transport.tamu.edu
• 979-845-9700
• Presentation available online
• http//transport.tamu.edu/presentations