Permit parking for a campus, without the enterprise contract.
Campus parking is a scale problem for three weeks a year and an enforcement problem for the rest. The hard part is issuing fairly in September and being able to prove it in February.
HOAs
Most HOA parking disputes are not about parking.
What it looks likeCondo associations
A condo building has two kinds of space and often two kinds of resident — the owner who holds a deeded bay and the tenant renting their unit.
What it looks likeApartments
In multifamily, parking is either an administrative cost or an income line, and the difference is almost entirely whether anybody is keeping track of it.
What it looks likeCommercial lots
There is good software for an airport garage and good apps for an hourly space downtown.
What it looks likeCampuses
You are here.
What goes wrong
Four problems, and what happens to each one.
Everybody applies in the same fortnight
A waitlist with a position, a request for a kind of space, and offers that expire so the queue keeps moving.
Several permit classes
Permits carry a class — resident, staff, visitor — and the rules follow the class.
Enforcement across a site
Patrol rounds check plates against the registry and live passes; unrecognised plates are kept as findings rather than lost.
Being asked to show the process was fair
Position, offer, expiry and decision are all in the record.
Getting started
What the first afternoon looks like.
- Describe the lot
Areas, levels and zones if you use them, then the spaces in ranges rather than one at a time.
- Pay for the spaces
Per space, per month, once you can see your own number.
- Bring people in
Import the list you keep, or invite them one at a time, with the agreement attached.
- Set the rates and the rules
Monthly rate, second vehicle, guest passes, offence types and fees.
Questions from campuses.
Is this a full campus parking system?
It is permit and space management, enforcement and billing. It is not a gate-and-kiosk platform, it does not do event parking or hourly pay stations, and a large university with those needs should buy something built for them.
Student housing specifically?
That is where it fits best on a campus — a residential building with assigned spaces, guests, turnover and a waitlist, which is exactly the shape it was built for.
Can departments be billed instead of individuals?
Not as a separate payer today. Spaces can run at no rate and be billed outside the product if that is how your finance office works.
One price, whatever kind of building it is.
Per space, per month, with everything included. Describe your lot and the arithmetic is yours to check.