Toronto Parking Authority
The Client
The Toronto Parking Authority (TPA) operates on- and off-street parking throughout the City of Toronto. More commonly known as Green P, the TPA is a staple in Toronto.
The Challenges
In the late '90s, the City of Toronto's parking relied solely on single-space parking meters. Requiring one meter per parking space not only hindered the amount of parking available, the coin only system impacted the amount of revenue being collected. To meet the needs of our evolving, cashless society, the city’s on- and off-street parking system was due for an upgrade.
In the mid-2000s, the City of Toronto wanted to increase the development, awareness and purchase of environmentally preferred products (EPP) and services to lower the City of Toronto’s environmental footprint. As Canada's largest city, the TPA was fixed on setting a good example, ensuring their parking system serviced the general public, businesses, municipality, and the environment.
The Solutions
The TPA is as confident today as it was in the many years ago that choosing Precise ParkLink as their multi-space meter technology partner has helped them exceed their program goals.
In 1998, the TPA and Precise ParkLink pioneered automated Pay-and-Display parking meters in the Canadian marketplace. At this time, it represented the third-largest deployment of Pay-and-Display parking meters world-wide.
In the 2000s, Precise ParkLink developed the world's most extensive sustainable parking program, geared toward meeting the TPA's sustainable endeavours. Through this program, Precise ParkLink, in partnership with the TPA, saves 1 million pounds of waste from landfills every year.
Over the past 30 years, the TPA has experienced the benefits of a municipal-focused parking solution. All aspects of the TPA's Pay-and-Display parking operation have been successfully managed with a strategic combination of people, hardware and software, secure revenue processing to reliable maintenance and technical support program, and meeting municipal demands backend processes required for successful execution.
The Results
Over 20 years later, the TPA still chooses to deploy Pay-and-Display parking meters in the City of Toronto, making the Green P parking meters a staple on the city streets. The success of the TPA parking solutions is marked by the transfer of 75% of the revenue generated from Pay-and-Display machines to the City of Toronto.
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About Precise ParkLink
CANADA’S PARKING INDUSTRY LEADER FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS.
When Precise ParkLink was founded more than 30 years ago, the company was a two-person field operation with a simple aspiration: to make a difference in the world of parking automation.
Since then, Precise ParkLink has grown into a nation-wide managed services and technology firm with more than 700 employees across Canada, a head office in Toronto, and 13 supporting offices across the country.
But what sets us apart from other parking operators isn’t where we are, it’s what we are: a full-service parking solutions provider. One source for all your parking-related needs.
Precise ParkLink manages thousands of parking lots on behalf of hundreds of property owners. We supply cutting-edge technology and services to thousands of clients in the healthcare, municipal, commercial, institutional, and private sectors.
Being a vertically integrated company puts us in a unique position. We can provide a level of management and technical integration that is best-in-class. Just ask the hundreds of clients to whom we’ve delivered cost-effective and customer-focused solutions over the years.