l inManila, AbuDhabi and Sao Paulo For the past four years, Abu Dhabi has been planning to


institute the largest parking program on Earth, bringing order to its 60,000 parking spaces. The plan involves the installation of pay-and-display equipment and then policing the populace – who up until now had simply parked wherever there was room, whether it was in an intersection, in the middle of the street or blocking a driveway. The symposium, opened by Abdullah Rashid Al Otaiba,


Chairman of theAbu Dhabi Department of Transport, began with an international array of presenters from the U.S., Britain, South Africa andAustralia. Led by moderator JohnVan Horn, Publisher of ParkingToday and ParkingWorld magazines, they spoke on parking planning and technology. They included, fromthe U.S.,Mary Smith ofWalker Parking;


TimHaas ofTimHaas andAssociates; Barbara Chance of Chance ManagementAdvisors; parking consultant Peter Guest from the UK; PaulVorster, CEO of ITS, SouthAfrica; and Declan Ryan, CEO of Database ConsultantsAustralia. Technology was the focus of Guest and Ryan’s presentation,


with a review of on- and off-street equipment that would be appro- priate in the emerging parking marketplaces. Ryan also spoke on the importance of collecting data and using those data to better plan parking regulations in central cities. Appropriate design was the highlight of Smith’s paper, which provided information on the evolution of parking structures world-


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appropriate. The city is embroiled in the begin- nings of a new program, bringing on-street parking under control.


T More than 150 attendees and sponsors discussed all


aspects of parking during the three-dayMiddle East Parking Symposium in November. It’s estimated that $2 billion will be spent on parking controls in the region in the next few years, and vendors lined up to showtheirwares to prospective clients at the symposium.


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HE MIDDLE EAST IS RAPIDLY growing its parking industry, and locating a symposium on parking in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi, was most


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