Posts from June 2019

Many college students, faculty and support staff would certainly find Clark Kerr’s words to be painfully true. The former President of the University of California once wrote, “I have sometimes thought of the modern [U.S.] university as a series of individual faculty entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance over parking.” Without a doubt, parking is one of the most widespread and frustrating problems afflicting U.S. colleges and universities. Rising enrollment numbers are one of the main reasons that so… Continue reading →

I was recently asked to referee a late-evening discussion between two parking professionals regarding the operational differences among parking disciplines. One administrator took the position that there is no real difference between managing parking at a university, in a city or at an airport. Essentially, they are exactly the same to this person. The other individual argued that parking operations at airports, universities and cities are different and, as a result, managing parking assets at those locations present different challenges… Continue reading →