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wide and the necessity of taking local requirements into consideration when planning parking facilities. Chance focused on the planning necessary for citywide parking operations, citing work done in Beirut and the results of a five- year program to bring parking controls to the Lebanese capital. Haas spoke of issues involving trans-
forming parking into a holistic concept, using it to adjust the quantity and quality of life in the central city. And Vorster revealed the issues and problems with providing parking for the upcoming World Cupmatches in SouthAfrica. The second day narrowed the focus
of the symposium, with Najib al Zarooni, General Manager of Parking at Abu Dhabi’s Department of Transport, and Rasin Mufti, VP and Technical Director with the Parsons Corp., speaking on the capital’s citywide project. Husam Musharbash of Traffic Tech Group (Mid- dle East / Gulf) brought the current park- ing situation in Qatar to the conference, and Kadir Gurbetci of ISPark Turkey spoke on sustainable transport in Istanbul.
Shirley Smith, Car ParkManager forAbu Dhabi airport,
andYountsAhmed, DutyManager of Car Parks at Dubai air- port, reported on their respective operations. Car park expan- sion plans for Sharjah,UAE, airport and the newcar park proj- ect were reviewed byMa’AllyAlAbd Esbaitah, architect for the project. JohnAwad andBrettMathews of Secure Parking present-
ed case studies on theMall of the Emirates and the Deira City Centre shopping mall projects in Dubai, while Omar Bin OmairAlMuhark, Director of PublicWorks inAjman, UAE, reviewed the latest parking developments in that emirate. Car park management was the focus of the symposium’s
third day, withMarc Peters of Herrenknecht in Germany and MehdiTaze of Skidata (Middle East /NorthernAfrica) speak- ing on centralized management of car parks. Service-level agreements and revenue control brought Parking Consultant Dennis Cunning from the U.S. and Nick Jolmers of Apcoa (MENA) to the podium. The event finished with technology. Cristina Lynn from
Parking Consultants International,Australia spoke on individ- ual parking bay sensors and wayfinding technology, and Neil Walmsley ofArup (UAE) andNigelWilliams of ParkingMat- ters (UK) brought 11 questions one needs to ask before buy- ing an automated car park. The nextMiddle East Parking Symposiumwill be inAbu
Dhabi on Oct. 10-12, 2010. For more information, contact organizer Davyd Farrell at Davyd.farrell@islandmedia-
me.com.
Peter Guest, Andy Van Horn and John Van Horn contributed to these articles.
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Participating in the ribbon cutting ceremony for the Philippine International Parking Expo are (l-r) Dennis Cunning, DLC Consulting. John Van Horn, Publisher, ParkingWorldMagazine, Michelle Ballesteros CMO of Ex-link, Orly Ballesteros, COO of Ex-link Corp, the Expo Organizers, Atty. Ernestina Carvajal, Alex Flores, EventMC, BrendanMcFarlane of Secure Parking India, and Peter Guest, consultant fromthe UK. Cunning, Van Horn, and Guest were among the presenters at the event.
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