What Are Your 2023 Car Park Resolutions?

With the New Year, it’s a time to take a step back and look at what you need to do to make the most of the next 12 months.

Car parks need to adapt to changing requirements, whether that’s putting solutions in place to cope with additional demand, providing new services to make life easier for visitors or supporting your business’ green initiatives. The desire to transform your car park can sometimes be hindered by concerns around cost, time, or disruption to motorists and your business.

Look at these changes like New Year’s Resolutions, they’re going to require effort and planning to put in place and your planning can be impacted by different factors.

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What needs to change on your site?

By leveraging the data on your site, you’re able to identify which aspects of your parking needs to change and what could have the most impact on your business.

ANPR data lets you plot trends and changes in user behaviour, identifying the different opportunities that you have to rework elements of your current car park operation. This could be adapting the payment methods you use on-site to include more cashless and contactless alternatives, or it could involve updating your infrastructure to support an increase in electric vehicles on your car park.

Utilising data lets you assess the impact each change to your car park could have and the investment you might have to make. Doing this helps you prioritise changes into necessary ones and those that you can revisit at a later date.

Sustainability

Maybe 2023 is the year you make your car park kinder to the environment. This could be something as simple as doing away with paper tickets on your site to reduce waste or embracing EV charging to support more sustainable ways of travelling.

There are lots of ways to make your site greener. Some changes are smaller and easier to implement, while others take more time and planning. If increased sustainability and stronger green credentials factor into your goals for 2023 then you need to look at the long- and short-term impact, you can make.

For example, switching to cashless and contactless payment solutions means less miles being covered for cash collection, less paper, reduced queues, and congestion – all things that impact the quality of your site and reduce a carbon footprint quickly. Whereas installing and utilising EV adds new environmentally friendly services to your site but needs more planning beforehand. That doesn’t mean making changes takes a long time.

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Timescales

One area of concern we frequently see is how fast a solution can be installed. It’s easy to assume that a change to a site involves a lot of disruption. However, it’s possible to quickly put a solution in place – in as little as three weeks in some cases.

While your new solution is installed, you should be informing the users of your car park that change is coming. Whether it’s signs within the car park, or at pay stations, users should be notified of what changes are being implemented, and more importantly when. Changes need to be communicated to your employees too. Posters in staff rooms and canteens notifying users of new permit options or ways to pre-book spaces to guarantee parking for a shift can help to ease confusion when a new system goes live.

Budgets

The other barrier that can often dissuade businesses from investing in their parking is the cost. There is an assumption that transforming your parking, such as installing new EV charging points or adding ANPR enforcement, can be prohibitively expensive.

This isn’t the case.

It is possible to reinvigorate your car park through cost-neutral solutions, meaning the cost is absorbed by the provider. This allows you to manage your parking, generate revenue, and improve how your site operates without budgetary concerns.

Helping you transform your car park

Improving your car park and getting ready for the year ahead doesn’t need to feel like a stressful move. At Parkingeye, we make sure that each step of the process is as painless as possible. From working out which solutions will have the most impact, to planning, installation, and ongoing management of a site.

Throughout the process, you’ll work alongside our dedicated Onboarding Team and Account Managers who can help support your transition to a new way of managing your car park.

To find out more about how we can help your business, get in touch using the form.