Parking Dude – Hoboken’s first and largest mobile parking application releases new updates including the city’s first ever real-time available on-street parking grid
Hoboken’s first and largest mobile parking application releases new updates including the city’s first ever real-time available on-street parking grid
Hoboken, New Jersey – February 1, 2017
In the birthplace of Frank Sinatra and baseball, residents and visitors to Hoboken, NJ only wish that parking brought such pride and ease. With over 14,000 resident parking permits handed out and only 10,000 plus on-street parking spaces available, the parking landscape is a daily battle for most. When you add confusing signage, weekly street-cleaning rules, and temporary no parking permits; owning, operating, and parking a car in Hoboken becomes a costly and stressful experience. If one would ask how costly, Hoboken meter maids and police wrote 132,675 tickets in 2014, worth a total of $6,068,060, insert the noise from a cash register opening.
The mobile application, Parking Dude, after being launched in January of 2015, is trying to succeed in helping cut that staggering number of tickets down one user at a time. In its first year, Parking Dude offered the following to its unique user base of over 5,000 users all within the mile squared:
– on-demand snow removal direct to your on-street parked car
– quick, affordable car washes without the user leaving their household
– street cleaning notifications direct to the user’s phone
– on-street parking information for each spot without users leaving their cars
– ability to share your parked car’s location with friend or family member
After listening to its users and support base, Parking Dude is proud to have recently launched key updates to the mobile application that will continue to help users avoid tickets. The following are services and new features that have been added and are currently available on Apple and Android devices:
– Real-time map of available and taken on-street parking spots
– Auto Park and Un-park technology to adjust your parked car’s location automatically without the user manually doing it
– Extreme weather notification system to alert you of your parked car’s risk of damage or tow. (flood damage/emergency snow plow zones)
– Temporary No-Parking and Construction Zone notification system
– Ability to pay and esign user agreement for all in-app services within seconds directly through the application
Parking Dude is available for download on Apple’s app store and Android’s google play store. For more information visit their website www.parkingdude.net.
For more information and/or to see a webcast demo of the app please contact:
Andrew Impastato
Mobile: 732-995-0815