Gates and “ticket spitters” are disappearing from parking lots and garages as modern license plate reading and digital payment technology become foundational pieces of urban infrastructure.
“There’s a process of going in, and leaving and paying, and doing this seamlessly. And by the way, much quicker than the experience that you had with a gate,” Dan Fortinberry, division manager for the city of Cincinnati Parking Services, said as he described its new parking management program for 14 surface lots and garages, making up some 10,000 spaces.
The city entered a partnership last year with Premium Parking, which deployed its GLIDEPARCS technology. As part of the transition, gates at the entrances and exits of city-owned parking facilities were removed, as well as the devices dispensing the parking tickets, which had been read just prior to initiating payment and exiting the lot or garage…