Entry Criteria

The Parking Technology Award recognises advances in the systems used to manage parking. The innovation will be a piece of parking hardware, a device or a wider system that makes the management of parking more efficient and/or customer-friendly.

The criteria:

The technology submitted could be:

• Parking payment systems (physical and digital)

• Access control and validation systems

• Parking guidance information systems

• Parking sensors

• Electric vehicle charging systems

• Car park repair and refurbishment products and processes

• Lighting and energy management systems

• ANPR and CCTV systems

• Hand-held terminals and other devices.

The innovation should be truly transformational, representing a significant advance on, or alternative to, existing solutions.

The entry should cover:

• Description of the parking problem or need that the innovation addresses

• The extent to which these objectives have been or are being met by the concept, system or service

• The extent to which the concept, system or service is genuinely new

• The technical, operational and/or policy merit of concept, system or service

• Deliverability of the innovation (including the practicalities and affordability of the concept, system or service)

• The individual or team responsible for delivering the solution

• The development and testing/proving process

• The degree of partnership with other interested bodies (clients, government, industry, public bodies, peers within parking, etc.)

• Evidence of successful implementation and customer/client feedback (case studies)

• Ways in which the innovation has been/can be applied in the wider parking sector.

Please supply:

1. Images

2. Customer and client feedback/testimonials

3. Press cuttings/Links to websites

4. Details of other awards won.