Portland’s favorite parking app expands to Washington Vancouver, Wash. (Jan. 17, 2020) — People parking on-street in the downtown and Uptown Village areas of Vancouver, Washington, will soon be able to pay to park using a mobile app – Passport’s Parking Kitty app. Passport originally developed Parking Kitty for the City of Portland, Oregon, where […]
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At Passport, we’re dedicated to serving our clients (all 1,000 of them!) and providing solutions for managing and controlling the curb. To create the best possible products, we need to stay on top of trends in our industry. Last year, we identified four trends we thought we’d hear a lot about in 2019. Now, we’re […]
Read MoreWhat is license plate recognition technology? License plate recognition parking enforcement technology, also known as LPR parking technology, allows operators to quickly and accurately read vehicle license plates. First, the data is collected using special license plate recognition cameras. Then, when connected to a cloud-based parking enforcement system, this data is processed immediately. The technology can […]
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As mobile pay for parking continues to rise in popularity, more cities and universities are adopting the Passport Parking app for parking payments or a personalized, city-branded app to digitize their operations and to offer a convenient parking payments option to their residents, visitors and students. Mobile transitions have been so successful that some cities […]
Read MoreWhat is digital parking enforcement Digital parking enforcement is sometimes called digital citation management or mobile parking enforcement. Digital parking enforcement is technology that enables cities to monitor parked cars, identify if cars are complying with parking rates and rules, and issue parking citations. With online, cloud-based parking enforcement, parking officials and enforcement officers can […]
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Deloitte recognizes Passport as one of the fastest-growing technology companies for second year running Charlotte, N.C. (Nov. 7, 2019) — Today, Passport announced it ranked No. 214 on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™ for 2019. Now in its 25th year, this award provides a ranking of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, and energy tech […]
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Parking operators are upgrading their operations with digital platforms, creating a major shift in the mobility industry. As with any large-scale change, many aspects of this technology shift are misunderstood and it’s increasingly important that decision makers have the right information. Below are some of the most common misconceptions about digitizing parking operations. Digitizing Your […]
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These innovators are setting the example for what it means to be a smart city. Discover the best practices that London, Buffalo and other top cities and universities are implementing. Laying the foundation for smart cities & smarter operations from passportlabs
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With incredible advancements to parking software, parking operators across the country are beginning to question the costly parking hardware that has defined their operations for years. As 77% of Americans have adopted smartphones, transacting through those devices has become a native process, including for parking. As mobile pay for parking continues to rise in popularity […]
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We’re two months into our micro-mobility pilot program with Charlotte, Detroit and Omaha and have been working closely with city leaders to determine goals, share information and learnings and begin building a new framework for scooter management. Working with our team, the city of Charlotte determined their key priorities for this project: Make scooters more […]
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