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valet, surface lot or hospital, Grant can list successes using apps to access the clouds and, through them, solve parking problems efficiently and inexpensively. Download the app to your android-
based phone, your tablet or your PC, and, voila, you have a cashier terminal, a hotel validation system, a valet program running
in your facility. And you have application- based accounting and informational soft- ware, too. The benefits, he says, are that the apps
are inexpensive, there is no long-term capi- tal outlay for hardware and software licens- es, and the apps can be customized to your particular operation.
You would have to spend a little
more time than a few hours at a Cheese- cake Factory restaurant to learn all the ins and outs, but this just might be the “thing’ for you. After all, we use clouds and apps daily to get the weather, buy books, download maps and directions, check our bank accounts, find out how far we jog, or to log on to social net- works, why not help run our garages with them, too? You can check out Grant’s latest at
www.anaiglobal.com. It’s most likely worth a look. JVH
I Get a First-Hand Lesson in Law- making Posted Jan. 23, 2012, by JVH I was asked two years ago to sit on
the National Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (NCUTCD) Sites Open to Public Travel (SOPuT) Task Force. I was told by Paul Box, head of the task force, that he needed some non- technical people from the parking com- munity (Mike Swartz of Standard Park- ing also was in the group). Seems the SOPuT was attempting to come up with some guidance, that could become law, for parking facilities on private property, as well as roads and streets that were on private property. Paul said he wanted to keep it simple,
since owners and developers weren’t traf- fic engineers, and so Mike and I could make wording suggestions that would be understandable by non-technical folk. The NCUTCD (
www.ncutcd.org/
about.shtml) provides input to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration, which publish- es the Manual on Uniform Traffic Con- trol Devices (MUTCD). This is the bible for traffic engineers across the country when they propose and design streets, highways, freeways and the like. It’s why when you see a stop sign in
Vermont, it is the same height, size, shape and color as one in Arizona or Alaska. The manual is extremely technical, writ- ten in “engineerese,” and is more than 500 pages thick. There were apparently two ways to
go for the SOPuT. The task force could either create a new “part” in the MUTCD, or it could go through the
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