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Medical Center as a paid parking facility. David Leingang has been named Director of Business Development at TCS Interna- tional, running its newCalifornia office in San Marcos. His duties include growing the company’s market share in the west- ern U.S., and ensuring that all knowof its state-of-the-art wireless parking guid- ance systems. Detroit’s landmark Cobo Center,
home to the North American Interna- tional Auto Show since 1965, recently received an energy-efficient lighting facelift. With the help of federal Smart- Building funds,managed by the Econom- ic Development Corp., about 3,000 400w metal-halide lights were replaced with energy-saving 250w EverLast variable- dimming, high-bay induction light fix- tures fromFull SpectrumSolutions. T2 Systems and Parkmobile USA
have deployed pay-by-phone service in Houston, enabling drivers to pay for
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parking at all of its 7,000-some on-street metered spaces with their mobile phones. The city implemented parking permit and enforcement management solutions from T2 Systems in mid-2009. Understanding that a key city strategic goal is to offer enhanced services to its constituents, T2 engaged Parkmobile, a well-known pay- by-phone service provider. This is the largest deployment to date of such serv- ice in the Southwest. Carl Scianna, President and CEO of
PolyBrite International, the developer of energy efficient Borealis LED lamps and light systems, has been honored with the LifetimeAchievementAward by theMid- west Italian American Chamber of Com- merce. The awardwas presented Oct. 1 at its 104th Gala and Awards Dinner in Chicago. Two recently launched KenallMan-
ufacturing products – the new TekDek parking garage LED luminaire and its SmartSense control system – have been
selected by the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) for inclusion in its 2011 Progress Report. An IES committee of lighting designers, engineers and manu- facturers recognized TekDek specifically for its ability to bring a higher quality of illumination to garage spaces – through minimized glare, higher vertical illumi- nance and uplight – than other LED prod- ucts currently on themarket. The Lithonia Lighting OLAW23 LED
area/wall light from Acuity Brands received a Lighting for TomorrowAward at the 2011 American Lighting Associa- tion (ALA) Conference in PalmBeach, FL. Sponsored by the ALA, the Consortium for Energy Efficiency and Underwriters Laboratories, the annual competition challengesmanufacturers to continuously improve their LED luminaire designs and recognizes the best-designed, most ener- gy-efficient LED luminaires for residen- tial applications.
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ACS, LA ExpressPark Program to Help Drivers Find Parking Spots Downtown
Finding a parking space in down-
town LosAngeles will be a lot easier for drivers beginning in spring 2012. The city is teaming upwithACS,AXeroxCompa- ny, to create a new pricing systemthat is part of a parking strategy designed to relieve traffic congestion, reduce air pol- lution and improve the efficiency of downtown LA’s transit operations. The city’s Department of Trans-
portation (LADOT) andACS will pilot a program, called LA ExpressPark, that will infuse Xerox innovation, ACS tech- nology expertise and demand-based pricing into a unique parking manage- ment program. Demand-based pricing adjusts
parking rates based on driver demand for spaces and availability. By increasing rates on high demand spots, there is the potential for more parking spaces to become available on each block – reduc- ing traffic congestion and pollution gen- erated by drivers hunting for curbside parking. It also may encourage drivers to consider carpooling, bicycling and public transportation as alternatives. The one-year pilot is funded by a
$15 million grant from the U.S. Depart- ment of Transportation and could total
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$29million if two option years are added. It includes: • Real-Time Parking Guidance Sys-
tems – Information will be displayed on street-side signs and up-to-the-minute smartphone apps directing drivers to available spaces. Sensors placed in park- ing spaces track occupancy. • New Parking Meter Technology –
New meters and upgraded multispace pay stations will be installed for about 6,000 on-street parking spaces. The new meters will accept a variety of payment methods, including credit cards and pay- ments made by phone that are charged to a driver’s account. • ParkingManagement System–ACS
will deliver its Merge Parking Manage- ment Systemto process all parking-related transactions and provide real-time parking data analytics to LADOT and drivers. During implementation of LA
ExpressPark, ACS will oversee installa- tion of sensors, update parking meter technology, and operate a central man- agement system that will process the information and data gathered by hand- held monitoring devices, meters and vehicle sensors. (Source: ACS, A Xerox Company)
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