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Point of View ..................................................................................................6 Parking Today News ....................................................................................10 Death by Parking..........................................................................................14 Product Focus ..............................................................................................28 New Products................................................................................................40 PT Blog ........................................................................................................44 Advertisers Index ........................................................................................58 Marketplace ..................................................................................................59 Dealers, Installers & Suppliers ....................................................................60 Upcoming Events ........................................................................................62


PARKING TODAY volume 15 number 9 SEPTEMBER 2010 FEATURES


18 Amateur Parker: Summer Parking is for the Beans


20 ‘Cool Hand Luke’ 22 Kennesaw State Reacts to Growth


25 The British Parking Association at 40, and its ‘Master Plan for Parking’


30 HowWouldYou Stop a Vehicle Accelerating Out of Control?


32 ‘Making Cents of Going Green’


34 University’s Parking Structure Balances Needs with Sustainability


38 Parking on the ‘GREEN’ Level


48 NPA Prepares for Annual Convention in Boston


50 Parking Not Getting Any Cheaper, Colliers Reports


55 New Smartphone Parking Applications Get Interactive


REGULAR FEATURES


On the Cover: Beth Tindel, Director of Parking, and Faye Silverman, Executive Director of the university’s Auxiliary Services and Programs (ASaP), sort out parking problems at rapidly growing Kennesaw State University in Georgia. Story on Page 22. Photo by Gary Dalton.


‘CoolHand Luke’......Page 20


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