Adventures of Parking Australia’s President, Cristina Lynn

 I have just spent two months in Sicily with my husband, and whilst the principal objective of the trip was to enjoy good food and wine in the company of new and old friends and relations, we could not help but notice the unique parking, driving and traffic culture on this Mediterranean island. By nature it is a land of contradictions with some of the most wonderful things surviving along (and despite of) many terrible others…. But I digress!      

By Michael Reid, General Manager, Carpark Compliance Solutions

Australia’s reliance on motor vehicles is legendary and while some reports indicate a dip in car ownership due to younger generations shunning cars in favour of car sharing, the recent ABS figures[1] indicate car ownership remains high with currently 12 million vehicles on our roads.

By Hussein Dia, Swinburne University of Technology

The transition to fully driverless cars is still several years away, but vehicle automation has already started to change the way we are thinking about transportation, and it is set to disrupt business models throughout the automotive industry.

The South Australian State Government stands accused of revenue raising as they attempt to introduce an unpopular $750-a-year parking levy (per parking space) for Adelaide CBD amidst renewed public backlash. The State Government claims it will use the revenue to invest in an upgraded public transport network for Adelaide.

Visa and MasterCard have mandated that all meters must be able to accept EMV chip technology in credit cards. EMV chip technology has dramatically decreased the amount of credit card fraud, so new card systems based on the EMV specifications are being rolled out across the world to replace the older magnetic stripe technology.