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That's why Peterman recommends that drivers look for spots where the space in front of you is also open so you can pull through.

Where Peterman and Solesbee disagree is over how to best design parking spaces to encourage drivers to back in. Peterman favors parking spaces oriented at degree right angles; think of rectangles like those seen in many shopping mall and other large lots and garages. That's partly because they are easier to pull through than angle spots.

But it's also because she says angle spots are simply too difficult for many drivers to try to back into. Solesbee, however, counters that angle spots are the way to go for street and lot parking, because they are more efficient and accommodate more cars, even if they are tougher to back in to. Still, convincing folks to back that thang up is going to take some time.

That's especially true as smartphones, smart dashboards and other technological advances within cars compete for drivers' time and attention. And while the experts may say it's the way to go, not everyone is so quick to adopt the practice.

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The Washington Post recently opened a floodgate of comments when it invited readers to comment on their preferences. But then, one Washington Post reader makes a practical point about jump-starting a car: Pango a play on "pay and go" [17] , a company founded in Israel in , created a mobile app that allows users to both find and pay for available metered parking; the app can also be used to pay for garage parking. Users may also, for a nominal monthly fee per registered car, subscribe to reminders that text alerts shortly before metered time expires, [18] and in some municipalities, users may buy additional metered time via cellphone.

Philadelphia, encourages parking space turnover by charging escalating parking fees when metered time is added. Other lots operate on a pay and display system, where a ticket is purchased from a ticket machine and then placed on the dashboard of the car. Parking enforcement officers patrol the lot to ensure compliance with the requirement. Similar to this is the system where the parking is paid by the mobile phone by sending an SMS message which contains the license plate number.

In this case, the virtual cashier books the car and the time when the message is sent, and later a new SMS message must be sent whenever the time is due. The actual payment is then made via the mobile phone bill. Since in the United Kingdom , it has been possible to pre-book parking with specialist companies, such as BCP.

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This is prevalent at all airports, major ports and cities. Modern parking lots use a variety of technologies to help motorists find unoccupied parking spaces using parking guidance and information system, retrieve their vehicles, and improve their experience. This includes adaptive lighting, sensors , indoor positioning system IPS and mobile payment options. The Santa Monica Place shopping mall in California has cameras on each stall that can help count the lot occupancy and find lost cars.

In outdoor parking lots, GPS can be used to remember the location of a vehicle some apps saves location automatically when turning off the car when a smartphone breaks communication with a vehicle's Bluetooth connection. Online booking technology service providers have been created to help drivers find long-term parking in an automated manner, while also providing significant savings for those who book parking spaces ahead of time.

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They use real-time inventory management checking technology to display parking lots with availability, sorted by price and distance from the airport. There are mobile apps providing services for the reservation of longterm parking lot spaces similar to online or aggregate parking facility booking services. Some longterm parking mobile apps also have turn-by-turn maps to locate the parking lot, notably US and UK based ParkJockey. Virtually all of the rain minus evaporation that falls becomes urban runoff.

To avoid flooding and unsafe driving conditions, the lots are built to effectively channel and collect runoff. Motor vehicles are a constant source of pollutants, the most significant being gasoline , motor oil , polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons PAHs , and heavy metals. PAHs are found in combustion byproducts of gasoline, as well as in asphalt and coal tar -based sealants used to maintain parking lots. Many parking lots are also significant sources of trash which ends up in waterways. Traditionally, the runoff has been shunted directly into storm sewers , streams , dry wells or even sanitary sewers.

However, most larger municipalities now require construction of stormwater management facilities for new lots. Typical facilities include retention basins , infiltration basins and percolation trenches. However, most existing lots have limited or no facilities to control runoff. An alternative solution today is to use permeable paving surfaces, such as brick , pervious concrete , stone , special paving blocks, or tire -tread woven mats. These materials allow rain to soak into the ground through the spaces inherent in the parking lot surface.

The ground then may become contaminated in the surface of the parking lot park, but this tends to stay in a small area of ground, which effectively filters water before it seeps away. This can however create problems if contaminants seep into groundwater , especially where there is groundwater abstraction 'downstream' for potable water supply.

Many areas today also require minimum landscaping in parking lots. This usually principally means the planting of trees to provide shade. Customers have long preferred shaded parking spaces in the summer, but parking lot providers have long been antagonistic to planting trees because of the extra cost of cleaning the parking lots.



Paved surfaces contribute to heat islands in two ways. The first is through excessive accumulation of heat. Dark materials and the enclosed canyons created by city buildings trap more of the sun's energy. The reflection rate of paving compared to natural surfaces is important as higher reflectance means cooler temperatures. Black pavements, the hottest, have solar reflectances of 5 to 10 percent.

Lighter pavements have solar reflectance rates of 25 percent or higher. Reflectance values for soils and various types of vegetation range from 5 to 45 percent. The second cause of heat islands is the low moisture content of paving and building materials. Such materials are watertight, so no moisture is available to dissipate the sun's heat through evaporation. Tree planting has been shown to significantly reduce temperatures in open, paved areas.

A parking lot needs fairly large space, around 25 square meters, or square feet per parking spot.

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This means that lots usually need more land area than for corresponding buildings for offices or shops if most employees and visitors arrive by car. This means covering large areas with asphalt. Some lots have charging stations for battery vehicles. Some regions with especially cold winters provide electricity at most parking spots for engine block heaters , as antifreeze may be inadequate to prevent freezing.

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