Parking Management 2009 - Conference

9.00
Registration & exhibition

9.40
Welcome: Mark Moran, Managing Editor, Parking Review

9.45
The business of parking
Parking is many things: a public service, a transport policy tool and a revenue generating business. What skills are needed by public and private sector operators to balance these competing demands?
Chair: Alan Ashbee, Director, Parking Man Ltd

10.00
The new economics of parking management
Parking managers run operations that are major income generators as well as gateways to a wide range of destinations. Retaining enough of that revenue to maintain, improve and expand an operation is often a challenge in both the public and private sector. How can local authorities provide effective enforcement and safe, high quality car parks while maximising revenues and meeting transport and other policy objectives?
Mirsad Bakalovic, Head of Parking Services, Croydon Council

10.20
Making the case for parking enforcement
The key issue for parking enforcement operations will be the challenge of providing and expanding services to meet expectations whilst dealing with cuts in public sector finance scheduled for the fiscal year 2010/11. Local authority parking teams will need to develop a toolkit of measures to defend their corners, especially outside London where most boroughs do not cover the cost of the service from enforcement but subsidise it from the parking income account.
Gerry Bolland, Enforcement & Parking Services Manager, Bournemouth Borough Council

10.40
Effective procurement: tendering, cost-savings and investment
This paper looks at how parking operators can use smart purchasing and leasing to get the best deals on new equipment, support services and renewables. It explores the pros and cons of outsourcing parking enforcement, site management and the back office. Questions to be debated include:

Does contracting out services always result in a more cost-effective system?
Does the use of private contractors driven by the need to maximise profit margins stand in opposition to delivering a public service?

Chris Wortley, Sales Director, VINCI Park

11.00
Q&A

11.15
Tea & coffee in exhibition

12.00
The green agenda
Parking operations have a major role to play in improving the environment via initiatives such as: park & ride, car sharing and car clubs, ’carbon metering’, providing charging points for electric vehicles, the use of solar-powered pay-stations and energy saving lighting systems.
Chair: John Elliott, The Local Authorities Technical Advisers Group

12.10
Green sticks: charging mechanisms - ‘carbon metering’, C02 permits, workplace parking levies, etc
The rationing of parking is one way in of reducing car dependency. This paper looks at ideas such as linking parking permit prices to car engine sizes (‘carbon metering’) and workplace parking levies. It looks at the pioneering work conducted by the London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames.
Terry Powell, Head of Parking Services, London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames & Harry Clarke, Commercial Director, RingGo

12.30
Green carrots: Car clubs in the community
Car clubs are emerging as a popular alternative to car ownership. This paper looks at how such schemes operate, how they can be accommodated on-street and off-street and how to market them effectively.
Jon Little, Senior Engineer, Project Centre & Eric Manners, Team Leader, Transport Policy, Islington Council

12.50
Q&A

13.00
Lunch in exhibition area

14.30
Civil parking and traffic enforcement
Civil parking enforcement (CPE) has been a reality in England and Wales for over a year. This session looks at issues such as the new Annual Reports, enforcing moving traffic offences and the expanding role of CEOs.
Chair: Mark Moran, Managing Editor, Parking Review

14.40
Are you ready to report?
In a bid to increase the transparency of CPE regimes, local authorities operating CPE are now required to publish Annual Reports for public consumption. Councils are being encouraged to embrace these reports as an opportunity to weave a narrative that spells out more than facts and figures about PCN issue, appeals won and lost, and financial results.

• Will the Annual Report change anything?
Mike Macey, Principal, MFM Associates

• Case study: Bromley’s Parking Report
Ben Stephens, Head of Parking Services, London Borough of Bromley

• Annual Reports: Obligation or opportunity?
Louise Hutchinson, Head of Service, Joint Committee Services, PATROL

15.40
Panel: Where next for civil enforcement?
A panel of speakers from the day will discuss whether or not the Traffic Management Act 2004 (TMA) really has made a difference to parking and highways enforcement. It will consider issues such as the roll-out of moving vehicle offences, double parking, expanding the role of CEOs, etc.

16.00
Event ends


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