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March 22, 2022

Rental Car Violation Processing Made Easy

Managing violations for rental cars could take a city tons of hours and full-time employees. Additionally, a majority of citations issued to rental cars often go unpaid. To help combat that, Passport has now integrated with VERRA — a processor for rental car agencies such as Hertz, Avis and Budget. VERRA either pays the citation […]

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Passport Welcomes Brian Pagels as SVP Sales and Bengt Horsma as SVP Payments

Charlotte, N.C. (March 7, 2022) — Passport, a transportation software and payments company, is pleased to announce Brian Pagels has been appointed Senior Vice President Sales and Bengt Horsma as Senior Vice President Payments. As SVP Sales, Pagels will play a key role in expanding Passport’s client base with the sales team, as well as […]

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January 14, 2022

[Webinar Recap] Data-driven Decision-making

It all begins with city leaders leveraging better mobility data to make informed policy decisions. That was the general consensus during a recent virtual panel discussion moderated by Mayor Stephen Goldsmith, advisor to Passport and professor of Government at the Harvard Kennedy School of Public Policy. He was joined by industry experts to discuss how […]

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November 18, 2021

Infrastructure Investment Coming to Cities Across the U.S.

After months of negotiations, Congress approved the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework (BIF). The legislation was signed into law on November 15, 2021 by President Biden and is aimed at modernizing the nation’s physical infrastructure. It marks one of the largest investments in U.S. infrastructure history. […]

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September 8, 2021

Collecting unpaid citations through a digital enforcement solution

The average medium sized city writes on average 90K citations a year, with a payment rate of about 74%. That means if the average citation is $55 a city could be losing up to $1.3M a year on unpaid fines. By increasing compliance by just 1%, cities could gain back $51,500 in additional revenue. The […]

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August 12, 2021

[Webinar Recap] Connected Journeys: Mobility as a Service

Passport and PlusPass recently hosted a virtual panel discussion, that explored the move towards Mobility as a Service (MaaS) and how state and local governments are planning for the future of mobility through public/private partnerships. Moderator Mayor Stephen Goldsmith, advisor to Passport and professor of Government at the Harvard Kennedy School of Public Policy, was […]

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August 5, 2021

How to Reimagine Enforcement by Utilizing an End-to-End Digital Platform

The parking industry is shifting rapidly from simple, static and hardware driven to connected, dynamic and software driven. In an age where people are constantly connected to their phones, apps and the digital world in general, it only makes sense that city operations would follow suit. Many city procurement groups, however, have found it challenging […]

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August 4, 2021

Utilizing a Digital Mobility Platform to Manage Parking in Tourist Towns

As COVID restrictions lift, the US is seeing a historical amount of travelers on the road and in the air. Fourth of July travel alone was up 40% from last year with 47 million people traveling across the country. In a recent survey conducted by AirBnB, the home sharing company found that over half of […]

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Passport begins enabling in-dash parking payments in Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep® and Ram vehicles

In-dash payments in select vehicles have now been added to Passport’s growing ecosystem of digital parking payment options. Passport continues to add more ways to pay for parking through its digital platform with mobile pay parking and the addition of in-dash payments. In partnership with Xevo, a leader in connected-car software and intelligent user experiences, […]

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June 28, 2021

Fighting parking payment fraud with an integrated payment processor

Have you ever looked at your credit card statement, seen an unfamiliar charge and immediately called the credit card company to dispute the charge? A chargeback, as this is typically called, occurs when a cardholder disputes a charge on their credit card statement with their card issuer, and then the card issuer reverses the funds […]

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