If you own a car, use public transportation, go to work or school, use health care, shop or dine out, or are part of a community, parking affects you, probably in more ways than you’ve thought about.
The International Parking & Mobility Institute (IPMI), formerly the International Parking Institute (IPI) is the world’s largest association of professionals in parking, transportation, and mobility — professionals who keep all of us moving. Members include everyone from garage owners and operators to architects to city managers to government agencies, health care centers, universities, airports, and convention centers.
IPMI works to advance the parking and mobility profession through professional development, research and data collection, advocacy and outreach, and with experts from around the world in dozens of specialties to make sure parking and transportation function efficiently. So people, businesses, and communities can keep moving.
Within the member body can be found various categories such as our: Affiliate members, which comprises manufacturers, commercial parking operators, equipment suppliers, and product and service providers. Our consultant members are made up of architects, parking industry consultants, independent engineers, and financial planners and consultants. The commercial operator members include owners and operators of private parking lots and facilities such as parking operations at airports, hotels, casinos, shopping and convention centers, etc.
IPMI members have access to a vast and professionally diverse resource from which to extract relevant industry enhancing ideas, expertise, tools, and information.
IPMI's Technical Information Service stands firmly behind its commitment to provide its members with the support and education needed to maintain a successful operation, and hopefully, even surpass your professional goals.
IPMI members also have the added resource of receiving executive briefings, which acts as a sleepless watch guard keeping members abreast of press releases and current industry news through one-day sessions to broadcast and examine urgent and exciting legislative announcements and breakthroughs. Customers will always notice and remember how they were treated by your employee hence - a perception is born. That perception often becomes the basis on which your performance as parking administrator is evaluated. If we continue to place employees in crucial customer service positions without the benefit of training, we set them up to fail. Providing them with the tools they need to succeed is your responsibility and is paramount to meeting these challenges. IPMIs On-Site Employee Training Program has been bringing parking professionals, trained by IPMI and the University of Virginia, to our members for more than six years giving over 6,000 front-line employees valuable skills and tools. The greatest benefit of our program is not only that well come to you, but also the training faculty has at one time or another walked the walk so they can talk the talk!
Among our periodicals is The Parking Professional magazine, the industry's leading publication and the only monthly magazine dedicated exclusively to the parking profession. This award-winning monthly features articles on current trends and addresses specific industry issues such as; Airport Parking Alternatives, Revenue Control, Smart Cards in Parking, Curbing Urban Traffic Congestion and much more. This big leaguer compelled the Wall Street Journal to crown it the industry's "Bible"!
Who's Who in Parking is an annual directory and member databook. This is a priceless and generous networking machine because it never stops working for you year after successful year. With this directory, you have a wealth of contact names and descriptions of organizations, consultants and affiliate member products and services.
Our Annual Parking Buyers Guide is an IPMI essential publication, which offers a comprehensive listing of parking industry suppliers products and services. By far the first and most logical choice for those seeking to fulfill procurement needs.
IPMI produces a Guide to Parking Consultant's book, which directs members to the services and expertise of the nation's parking consulting firms. The Publication Catalogue is our technical library housing research data, survey results, seminar and conference proceedings, books, journals, articles, cassette and videotapes on parking management and other related issues.
IPMI offers the ADA Parking Compliance Manual, another comprehensive publication covering the Americans with Disabilities Act and parking operations. It is packed with over 250 pages of in-depth analysis, illustration, and guidelines, plus a 22-paged parking facility checklist.
Benchmarking the Parking Profession: The Statistical Guide to Parking is a thorough study of the parking industry includes information on financial patterns in the public parking industry, compensation for various professional, administrative, supervisory and labor segments of the parking profession.
Parking 101: A Parking Primer, IPMI's most recent publication is designed to serve as the first source for those faced with an unfamiliar parking issue or are new to the industry. It provides the user with basic information on a wide variety of by providing enough information to formulate a course of action and gain a better understanding of a particular issue.
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