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CurbTrac Launches Clean Driver Program in Partnership with Grubhub and Philadelphia Parking Authority

April 29, 2020

CurbTrac Launches Clean Driver Program in Partnership with Grubhub and Philadelphia Parking Authority

Program provides Grubhub drivers with Personal Protective Equipment kits at no charge

Philadelphia, PA, April 29, 2020 – In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, CurbTrac, a technology innovator in the parking and mobility industries, announced the launch of the Clean Driver Program in partnership with Grubhub and the Philadelphia Parking Authority (PPA). The Clean Driver Program leverages CurbTrac’s parking operations network and technology platform to provide turn-key solutions for Transportation Network Companies (TNC) and taxi companies to keep drivers and customers safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of the program, personal protective equipment (PPE) distribution will be available in Philadelphia to start with the ability to potentially expand across additional markets next month.

The Clean Driver Program for Grubhub will launch with a pop-up distribution site on Wednesday, April 29, 2020 through Saturday, May 2, 2020 from 10am until 4pm. Registered Grubhub drivers can schedule a time to pick up their PPE kits at no charge at a designated location in the city. Commenting on the launch of the program, CurbTrac CEO Charley DeBow said, “By leveraging CurbTrac’s technology platform, our logistics expertise, and our staffing network, The Clean Driver Program provides Grubhub with a cost-effective solution to quickly and efficiently distribute PPE kits directly into the hands of their drivers.”

“Ensuring the safety of our community during these times is incredibly important, especially as delivery is one of the only ways restaurants are able to stay open right now,” stated Eric Ferguson, senior vice president of logistics at Grubhub. “While we’ve already extended an easy way for our driver network to access PPE, our partnership with CurbTrac further extends our efforts and gives drivers in Philadelphia a quick and easy way to pick up the supplies they need – and at no cost to them.”

The PPA supported the launch of the Clean Driver Program by providing the space for the pop-up distribution site. “The Philadelphia Parking Authority is pleased to partner with CurbTrac’s Clean Driver Program to support the health and safety of food delivery drivers and customers. The PPA applauds corporate leaders like Grubhub for providing drivers with free PPE kits,” commented Scott Petri, Executive Director of the PPA. “As the City of Philadelphia gradually re-opens the economy, the PPA will continue to support initiatives like the Clean Driver Program for all for-hire vehicles,” Petri said.

For more information on the Clean Driver Program, visit www.cleandriverprogram.com.

About CurbTrac

Founded by leaders in the mobility payment vertical, CurbTrac is a Philadelphia-based technology company creating innovative solutions for the parking and mobility industries. The company’s leading product, a centralized parking payment database, provides municipalities, universities, and private parking operators with a fully integrated, multi-app payment system. The Clean Driver Program is CurbTrac’s latest product and leverages its flexible software, and vast network of partnerships across the US, to quickly scale customized solutions to providing COVID-19 safety measures for Transportation Network Companies (TNC). The Clean Driver Program launched in Philadelphia to support GrubHub drivers in partnership with the Philadelphia Parking Authority.

About Grubhub

Grubhub (NYSE: GRUB) is a leading online and mobile food-ordering and delivery marketplace with the largest and most comprehensive network of restaurant partners, as well as more than 22 million active diners. Dedicated to connecting diners with the food they love from their favorite local restaurants, Grubhub elevates food ordering through innovative restaurant technology, easy-to-use platforms and an improved delivery experience. Grubhub features over 350,000 restaurants and is proud to partner with more than 165,000 of these restaurants in over 3,200 U.S. cities and London. The Grubhub portfolio of brands includes Grubhub, Seamless, LevelUp, AllMenus and MenuPages.

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CurbTrac:

Lisa DeBow, Principal, Cloudburst Advisory Group

(202) 262-4261

media@curbtrac.com

Grubhub:

Natalie Gerke, Senior Manager, Communications

(850) 554-5416

ngerke@grubhub.com

Phildelpehia Parking Authority:

Martin O’Rourke

(215) 882-2658

mart.orourke33@gmail.com

Leading Curb Management Company, Coord, Launches Digital Curb Challenge Across North America

January 15, 2020

Leading Curb Management Company, Coord, Launches Digital Curb Challenge Across North America

Up to three cities across North America will be selected to partner with Coord to undertake a free, curb space management pilot program in 2020 to create more efficient, safe and accessible streets

NEW YORK— January 15, 2020— Coord, the industry-leading curb management company, today announced the launch of the Digital Curb Challenge. Starting today, cities of all sizes and other curb managers such as airports, entertainment venues and universities across North America can apply to partner with Coord to undertake a curb space management pilot program, free of charge and tailored to their unique mobility challenges. Applications can be submitted at https://www.coord.com/digital-curb-challenge-2020 and are open until February 14, 2020.

With Coord’s comprehensive curb management platform, cities are empowered with the necessary tools to digitally inventory, price, allocate and manage the curb. For example, cities can reduce double parking and congestion by providing fleet drivers with the tools and incentives to park legally through a Smart Loading Zone Program. Created by city planners, Smart Loading Zones enable commercial drivers to locate nearby loading zones, see whether they’re available, and book space in them, all through a City-authorized app. Coord’s platform puts the city at the forefront of curb management programs like this with tools that enable everything from site selection, driver communication, rule enforcement, and program performance.

“We know that to solve some of our most critical transportation challenges, cities must be in the driver’s seat with scalable solutions in hand,” said Stephen Smyth, Co-Founder and CEO of Coord. “With our platform, cities are empowered with just that — a Digital Curb, built with the necessary ground-level insights to improve their streets more seamlessly and effortlessly than ever before. We can’t wait to bring these tools to more cities and expand access to the curb as we kick-off our first-ever Digital Curb Challenge.”

Cities or organizations selected for the Digital Curb Challenge will have free and complete access to Coord’s full suite of curb management solutions for the duration of the partnership and the opportunity to work closely with Coord experts to develop an effective, scalable pilot program to be deployed in 2020.

“As cities are grappling with increasing demand for curb space, the best way to figure out how to respond is to pilot different solutions,” said Beth Osborne, Director for Transportation for America, which is focusing on the curb in its third year of the Smart Cities Collaborative. “Every opportunity to innovate provides valuable information to the city and better use of public assets to the taxpayer. Coord is providing three cities with exactly the help they need.”

“We were delighted when we learned that Transportation for America’s Smart Cities Collaborative would be focusing on curb space pilots this year,” said Dawn Miller, Head of Policy and Partnerships at Coord. “They had tremendous interest from cities, and we created the Digital Curb Challenge to both facilitate more cities launching curb space management pilots in 2020 and to expand this opportunity to other organizations that experience curb space management challenges, such as universities, health systems, transportation hubs and entertainment venues.”

Just as every city is unique in how it approaches curb management, each Digital Curb Challenge pilot program will be tailored to the host’s challenges, resources and interests. Pilot programs may include, for example:

Smart commercial loading zones: reduce congestion and safety hazards caused by double-parking vehicles by creating tech-enabled commercial loading zones, bookable by app for participating fleet drivers
Ride-hail management: reduce congestion and safety hazards caused by ride-hailing congestion by creating passenger loading zones the City can easily manage and evaluate
Demand-responsive pricing: reduce circling for parking while maintaining parking availability by regularly re-pricing metered parking to target one or two available spaces on every block

Since 2016, Coord has been building tools that enable cities to better manage their curbs as new transportation modes continue to change the way people get around. Cities can view and analyze their curb supply and demand data in Coord, allowing them to easily quantify the impact of alternative scenarios and communicate tradeoffs to stakeholders. This data can be supplemented with the Coord Collector mobile app, which leverages augmented reality to collect detailed, precise curb inventory and occupancy data quickly and easily. Mobility companies use the Coord API to ingest comprehensive curb regulation data and incorporate it into their day-to-day operations to improve efficiency, safety and compliance along the curb.

With the help of leading engineering firms and municipalities, Coord now supports 15 cities across North America, including: San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Austin, Miami, Philadelphia, San Diego, Washington D.C., Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, Denver and Vancouver.

“Dynamic curb management has quickly become the most important topic in our industry today, with practitioners trying to adapt policy and practice to support ever-changing needs and using all means of data to support those decisions,” said Brett Wood, Parking and Transportation Consultant at Kimley-Horn. “In that arena, I’ve been very impressed with Coord’s approach to curb management, creating data streams and analytical tools that help practitioners better understand how the curb works today and how future changes could impact the overall mobility ecosystem.”

“I’m excited at the opportunity to leverage resources that streamline processes and allow more time to be spent developing solutions that achieve community goals,” saidJane Wilberding, AICP, Senior Transportation and Parking Planner at Sam Schwartz. “Curbside data applications like Coord’s provide policy makers with meaningful insights into the complexities of today’s designations that enable them to make more informed decisions when balancing the amount of space and time allocated to the growing number of users competing for curb space in the future.”

“Curb management is an increasingly critical part of making cities work. The historic lack of tools and data have made it impossible to think intelligently about the curb, much less to allocate and manage it well,” said Rachel Weinberger, Principal Weinberger & Associates and Senior Transportation Fellow at RPA. “The contributions of Coord to enhancing our ability to know what’s happening and figure out what needs to happen are absolutely game changing. I’m excited about the Digital Curb Challenge and psyched to see the creative responses that will pour in.”

“The Neighborhood Empowerment Project and Streetopia UWS at Open Plans are working to inspire local stakeholders to take ownership of and re-imagine their curb space to meet 21st Century demands. The first step is understanding what exists and how it’s used. Coord has been an invaluable partner, providing info on existing rules and regulations and the amount of free parking space in NYC,” said Janet Liff, Director of the Neighborhood Empowerment Project, Open Plans. “We look forward to their new project, getting dynamic information and discovering how the existing rules dovetail with demand. From there, we’ll have a solid springboard for change.”

For more information on the Digital Curb Challenge, please visithttps://www.coord.com/digital-curb-challenge-2020 or contact Coord at challenge@coord.com.

About Coord

Coord helps cities manage their streets, starting with the curb. The company was founded in 2016 with the belief that streets should serve people – not vehicles. Coord is the only comprehensive curb management platform, empowering cities with the necessary tools to digitally inventory, allocate, price and manage the curb. The platform supports over 17,000 curb miles across 15 cities, with the goal of serving over 100 cities across the globe by 2021. Coord is based in New York City, and backed by Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs, Alliance Ventures, Trucks, Urban.us and DB Digital Ventures. Learn more at Coord.com

APPYWAY AND SAFO PARTNER TO ALLEVIATE THE PAIN OF PARKING FOR FLEET DRIVERS AND MANAGERS

November 21, 2019

APPYWAY AND SAFO PARTNER TO ALLEVIATE THE PAIN OF PARKING FOR FLEET DRIVERS AND MANAGERS

● Partnership between AppyWay and Safo opens up thousands of fleet drivers to kerbside restriction information for over 300 UK towns and cities.

● The companies believe the partnership will reduce the amount of PCN’s fleets receive and reduce congestion and emissions.

LONDON, UK – Thursday 21st November, Intelligent mobility pioneers AppyWay and end-to-end fleet management firm Safo have announced a new partnership to bring accurate kerbside data and better parking experiences to fleets.

Fleets face daily parking challenges from navigating to a space to interpreting the local traffic regulations for that bay, all the while managing a hectic schedule against a congested road network. By embracing these challenges and helping drivers interpret parking easily, both companies believe they can improve driver wellbeing and reduce emissions from unnecessary driving in the search for suitable parking.

Safo Group, together with its European subsidiaries, is the chosen partner of many national and international companies. The company develops bespoke fleet management software, providing services to a portfolio ranging from top rental and lease players, car sharing, and large private and corporate international fleet companies. The reseller agreement will enable the two companies to bring a vastly improved parking experience to Safo’s combined fleet of over 1,000,000 vehicles across the UK. Thousands of drivers could benefit from kerbside restriction information for over 300 UK towns and cities. Drivers using Safo’s technology will have the option to gain full visibility on; length of bay, bay count, paid bays, disabled bays, EV bays, motorcycle bays, free bays, loading bays, resident bays, and car club bays, all with up to 1m accuracy.

The partnership provides Safo’s end clients with a greater suite of driver services to integrate within a bespoke solution. Working in partnership, both Safo and AppyWay have plans to innovate the portfolio further, ensuring drivers are catered for in new mobility technology and fleet managers can better manage the burden of bad parking.

AppyWay’s CEO & Founder, Dan Hubert says “By partnering with Safo we can bring our vision of making parking forgettable to fleets and fleet managers. Along with the implications to business operations through PCNs and impoundments, searching for parking clogs up city streets resulting in greater congestion and emissions, and parking illegally creates safety and accessibility concerns for vulnerable road users. Ensuring a vehicle is parked correctly benefits both the fleet and the communities they operate in.”

Jane Taylor, Sales & Marketing Manager, Safo adds “In our constant drive for customer satisfaction, innovation and digitisation, we are pleased to work with AppyWay using their data to surprise and delight fleet drivers across the UK. We firmly believe that through a better parking experience we not only improve driver wellbeing but also help reduce carbon emissions. This is the first step to achieving that with AppyWay through the integration of our Customer Mobile APP”

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About AppyWay

AppyWay exists to help cities thrive from the kerb up. We see the kerb as a catalyst – the key to powering progress with the most pressing urban mobility challenges. Our platform of data, APIs and tools provide digital kerbside management solutions that enable intelligent mobility, better connecting cities with people and businesses.

Through close collaboration and industry leading partnerships, the AppyWay platform effectively acts as a ‘future mobility’ conduit between the public and private sector:

Kerbside Management | B2G

AppyKerb, our Govtech stack, is a complete kerbside management platform. With AppyKerb, Local Authorities are empowered to commoditise and open up their assets. This enables rich data-driven insights and digital access solutions for everyone using our kerbs.

Learn more >

Intelligent Mobility | B2B

AppyWay business solutions keep people, goods and cities flowing. A full eco-system of kerbside data APIs, payment solutions and CAV integrations improves kerb interactions for local enterprises, customers, deliveries and fleets alike.

Learn more >

About Safo

With over 30 years in business, Safo Group, together with its European subsidiaries, is the chosen partner of many national and international Top Players. Safo has developed bespoke and unique software, providing services to a combined fleet of over 1,000,000 vehicles.

Corporate fleets hold an important role in companies which need to be managed.

Contracts, traffic fines, courtesy vehicles, fuel cards, maintenance: There are so many activities to handle and the clients need effective solutions in line with their internal operating processes.

Safo Group has been working in this way within the European market for more than 30 years, supporting clients with both small and large corporate fleets.

A cost-effective management process gives many economical benefits and allows our clients to keep their fleet under control.

AppyWay: HALIFAX WELCOMES INNOVATIVE SCHEME AIMED AT REDUCING TIME MOTORISTS SPEND FINDING AND PAYING FOR PARKING

October 31, 2019

HALIFAX WELCOMES INNOVATIVE SCHEME AIMED AT REDUCING TIME MOTORISTS SPEND FINDING AND PAYING FOR PARKING

– Combination of over 1,700 bay sensors and award-winning mobile app (AppyParking) helps local residents and visitors save time finding and paying for parking

– Convenience of solution supports local economies by reducing the usual stress of parking, with motorists staying longer in town compared to using traditional pay and display tickets

LONDON, UK – Thursday 31st October: AppyWay, the pioneering kerbside management and intelligent mobility firm, today announced the launch of their innovative Smart City Parking scheme in the West Yorkshire town of Halifax in partnership with Calderdale Council.

The launch follows the successful implementation of the same scheme in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, earlier in 2019.

AppyWay’s Smart City Parking solution remains the first of its kind to integrate technical capabilities such as smart parking sensors and sensor-enabled payments across on and off-street parking spaces into a seamless mobile app experience for customers, whilst also providing powerful kerbside analytics for the local authority.

In addition to transforming the parking experience for motorists, the firm are now able to report that the scheme can help support the local economy, following the successful implementation earlier this year in Harrogate, North Yorkshire.

Users, when comparing the AppyParking experience to using traditional pay and display machines report they find it more convenient, less stressful and end up staying in town longer as they didn’t worry about their ticket expiring(1).

Dan Hubert, Founder and CEO of AppyWay, “We’re incredibly excited for our service to go live in Halifax and look forward to seeing local residents, businesses and visitors adopt the app. We know that by alleviating the uncertainty of parking and making the whole experience as pain-free as possible, we can help breathe life into local economies as they struggle to compete with the rise of online shopping. Our survey results from Harrogate demonstrate that if you can show people where they can park with real-time availability, make payments more convenient and less stressful then people are likely to stay for longer. We’re committed to delivering tangible benefits like this for our local authority partners and we look forward to the feedback in Halifax and to launching our next location, Portsmouth, later this year.”

For motorists parking in Halifax, AppyParking helps reduce unnecessary miles driven around town looking for parking, by providing live parking availability in the app – a key feature of installing parking sensors in each bay. The firm argue that less time and fuel spent looking for parking naturally contributes to a reduction in associated congestion and vehicle emissions.

Once parked, paying for parking is also simplified. Not only does the launch represent the first time bank card payments have been made available in Halifax, users of the app also benefit from the option of One Click Parking™, a concept created by AppyWay with the support of payments technology company Visa.

The app seamlessly pairs the user’s mobile device with the sensor under their vehicle via Bluetooth, enabling them to start a pay-as-you-go parking session that automatically ends when they drive away. This means that following the minimum ticket duration (which is either half an hour or an hour depending on location) users enjoy pay-per-minute rates, helping them avoid paying for time they don’t use, which is typical when having to decide how long they need to park at the start of their stay with pay and display.

Calderdale Council’s Cabinet Member for Public Services and Communities, Cllr Susan Press, adds: “We know from listening to residents that they would like more flexibility when it comes to parking. By utilising this new technology we can allow drivers to plan ahead and easily see which areas of Halifax are busy for parking and where has available spaces.”

“People will also have the option to pay through the app, saving the need to find the correct change or worry about over-staying the time on their ticket – allowing visitors to explore Halifax at their leisure.”

For interviews and requests please contact:
Georgia Tomkins, georgia.tomkins@appyway.com – +44 7787 951199
For images and brand assets please visit https://appyway.com/press

About AppyWay
AppyWay exists to help cities thrive from the kerb up. We see the kerb as a catalyst – the key to powering progress with the most pressing urban mobility challenges. Our platform of data, APIs and tools provide digital kerbside management solutions that enable intelligent mobility, better connecting cities with people and businesses.

Through close collaboration and industry leading partnerships, the AppyWay platform effectively acts as a ‘future mobility’ conduit between the public and private sector:

Kerbside Management | B2G
AppyKerb, our Govtech stack, is a complete kerbside management platform. With AppyKerb, Local Authorities are empowered to commoditise and open up their assets. This enables rich data-driven insights and digital access solutions for everyone using our kerbs.
Learn more >Intelligent Mobility | B2B
AppyWay business solutions keep people, goods and cities flowing. A full eco-system of kerbside data APIs, payment solutions and CAV integrations improves kerb interactions for local enterprises, customers, deliveries and fleets alike.
Learn more >

Coord: The Digital Curb debuts in five new cities across North America

October 28, 2019

The Digital Curb debuts in five new cities across North America

We’re five steps closer to supporting over 100 cities across the globe by 2021 as we welcome the curbs of Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, Denver and our first Canadian city Vancouver to our platform

This past June, we announced our goal of supporting over 100 cities across the globe by 2021. At the same time, with the help of our engineering firm partners and municipalities, we added support for Austin, Miami, Philadelphia, San Diego and Washington D.C. to Coord, continuing our mission to help cities manage their streets, starting with the curb.

We are excited to expand access to the curb in five additional North American cities in our Coord Toolkit. This means curb users like mobility and logistics companies can now leverage data and analytics for these cities to optimizing vehicle routing to loading zones, improve safety for their users, reduce parking tickets and tows, and so much more.

Having a digital record of city curbs is crucial for cities — particularly as the ways people and goods get from point A to point B continue to rapidly evolve. Whether it’s new busways, a la New York City, the continued rise in micro-mobility options like scooter or increased packages and on-demand services, curb space is an increasingly scarce resource. So, in order to help cities adopt new curb management practices to better serve current and future needs of their communities, it’s important to start with an accurate record of their curbs today. A historically overlooked piece of infrastructure separating where we work, sleep and play, from how we get deliveries to how we get around by car, bus, or bike — the curb is quickly becoming the gateway to the city.

The Coord Toolkit helps cities digitize, analyze, & reimagine curb use. By being able to integrate curb data alongside parking meter transactions, citation information, permit allocations etc. cities can begin to put together a bigger picture for better planning and communication within their communities. By helping cities share data through our API we also help curb users such as mobility and logistics providers be more efficient, compliant, and safe along the curb. Among a variety of potential uses, this means companies can leverage the curb data for better routing, improving congestion as well as safety for drivers and passengers.

What’s new?

Just a few months ago, we announced support for nine major cities: San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Austin, Miami, Philadelphia, San Diego and Washington D.C. Today, five new cities have been mapped for the Digital Curb revolution! We are so excited to welcome the curbs of Boston, Chicago,Atlanta, Denver and Vancouver to the Coord family.

Now let’s dig into these new cities:

In Boston, we partnered with engineering firm Stantec to survey the historic cobblestone ways of the North End and Beacon Hill, to the hustling new streets of Downtown Crossing, Back Bay, and the Financial District. In four days, surveyors tracked 95 miles of Beantown curbs.

In Chicago, we partnered with leading traffic and transportation planning and engineering firm, Sam Schwartz, to survey the most heavily populated neighborhoods of the Windy City. From The Loop, River North, Streeterville, Gold Coast, Magnificent Mile and near West Side, surveyors tracked 122 miles of curbs over just seven days!

In Atlanta, in seven days, surveyors from NDS (National Data and Surveying Services) collected 94 miles of curbs. After this week of surveying, we learned that Downtown Atlanta has a lot of curbs where you can’t park or stop! 38% of the curb space in downtown Atlanta on an average weekday is allocated to no parking, with another 27% allocated to no standing and 10% allocated to no stopping.

In Denver, we worked with IDAX to digitize 90 miles of curbs in six days across the neighborhoods of Highland, LoDo, Ballpark, Five Points, Capitol Hill, and City Park West. The team of 5-6 people collected this data in six days!

In Vancouver, we partnered with AECOM to survey 107 miles of curbs across the city. In Coord’s first-ever Canadian city and large scale survey outside of the U.S., surveyors spent seven days traversing the streets of Gastown, Downtown, Coal Harbour, West End, Mt. Pleasant and Fairview. Interestingly, Vancouver has very minimalist, symbol-based signage, more so than anywhere else we’ve surveyed.

Not only are we expanding geographically; we have also added new product features to help cities better understand curb use. We recently released support for the collection and analysis of curb occupancy and turnover. We are building products to help cities better manage their curbs and help connect curb regulations to the private sector.

Interested in bringing the digital curb to your city?

We are on a mission to help cities manage their streets, starting with the curb. If you work for a city agency, transportation provider, or engineering consulting firm and want to want to learn more about Digital Curb, drop us a line at partners@coord.co to ‘get ahead of the curb.’

CURBTRAC LAUNCHES A MULTIPLE PARKING APP MANAGEMENT PLATFORM

June 25, 2019

CURBTRAC LAUNCHES A MULTIPLE PARKING APP MANAGEMENT PLATFORM

Today CurbTrac, a Philadelphia based technology and consulting company, announced a new software platform for cities, universities and parking operators to easily manage multiple parking payment applications.

CurbTrac provides enterprise solutions for our clients to increase the use of mobile payments in their operations by offering a centralized platform that allows multiple parking apps to be offered to their parkers for payment. Increasing the adoption of mobile payment applications will allow our clients to improve efficiency, increase revenues and decrease the amount of capital expenditures on traditional parking payment hardware. CurbTrac will also allow for parking operators to create better curb management strategies by offering a centralized database of curb interactions. CurbTrac will continue to develop next-generation mobility solutions for cities to better manage their curbs with a focus on payment transaction management.

CurbTrac’s executive team has expertise in parking technology, mobile payments, parking operations, and urban mobility. Charley DeBow, co-founder and CEO is widely considered a parking and mobility technology innovator. He has held leadership roles in private parking operations, municipal parking management and has worked with over 100 cities and universities to implement a mobile payment program. He was recently honored by the International Parking and Mobility Institutes (IPMI) as the recipient of IPMI’s 2019 Emerging Leader award. Nathan Donnell, co-founder, is an innovative industry strategist with 20+ years of sales and management experience within the parking and mobility industries. Daniel Bell, co-founder and CTO, has previously scaled a parking management and technology company to 600 employees in multiple states.

“Mobile parking payment apps have been around for 10 years in North America, yet adoption rates remain low. Most parking operations only accept one specific parking app which limits consumer engagement. With CurbTrac our clients can manage offering multiple payment channels to their consumers. Our software consolidates all financial reporting, API integrations, and operational data in one place. We are excited to announce our first deployment at the Forks in Winnipeg with our first partner, FNP Parking.”- Charley DeBow, CEO

FNP Parking began utilizing CurbTrac’s mobile payment management platform to offer their customers three different mobile payment options in 4,000 parking spaces at The Forks, a mixed-use development with over 4 Million visitors a year. PayByPhone, HonkMobile and Secunik payment apps are all available to parkers to pay for parking at the Forks. “We are excited about our new partnership with CurbTrac. Our goal is to make parking at any of the Forks locations as easy as possible. The CurbTrac platform allows us to do so by offering our customers multiple payment options.”- Rob Pelletier, FNP Parking Manager at The Forks.

Web: curbtrac.com
Social: Twitter (@curbtrac), Instagram (@curbtrac), Facebook (fb.com/curbtarc), LinkedIn (linkedin.com/company/curbtrac)

CurbTrac Contacts:

Charley DeBow, CEO
charley@curbtrac.com
Cell: 814-574-3121

Coord – Curb Analytics: A new way to see your city’s curbs

May 15, 2019

Curb Analytics: A new way to see your city’s curbs

Coord announces Curb Analytics, the first-ever data tool designed specifically for curbs, that presents asset data and regulations in a highly visual and adaptable way, making it easier for city agencies, engineering firms and urban planners to see the effect curbs have on their city’s mobility.

Introducing Curb Analytics

At Coord, our goal is to get accurate curb data into the hands of everyone who needs it, so that we can make urban mobility more efficient, seamless and accessible. So far, we’ve released the Curbs API to let people integrate curb regulations directly into apps and other software systems, as well as our Surveyor tool for collecting curb asset data. But we realized that there was a piece missing: many people who work with curbs, from city staffers to transportation planners to parking consultants, need tools to help them easily view and understand our data without having to resort to complicated and technical GIS software.

To address this need, we’ve built Curb Analytics, a brand new tool that works with Surveyor and our API, giving users a simple way to view, analyze and interpret curb features and regulations, exactly as they are in each metro area. Curb Analytics presents both curb assetsand curb regulations through an interactive map, along with tools to help analyze the data and make more informed decisions and recommendations.

How does it work?

The first step in using Curb Analytics is getting the data to analyze. Coord has already collected data in New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, with more cities coming very soon. Users can also collect curb data through Surveyor, or we can help you to integrate existing curb data into our platform.

Once the data is inside Coord’s system, we run it through our rules engine to figure out what all of the different curb information means for people who want to park, pick up or drop off passengers, or load and unload goods. Then, we present this data in two different map views. Both of these map views let you see curb data in detail as well as get aggregate statistics about the curbs in a particular area or across the whole city.

First, there’s the Asset map. We built this to help cities better manage the physical assets themselves that live on the curb. It gives users a direct visualization of curb asset inventory, like curb paint, parking spaces, fire hydrants and more. Using this data, you can answer questions like:

How many feet of curb are painted red in a downtown area?
Which streets in a given neighborhood are missing street cleaning signs?
Which intersections have accessible tactile curb ramps?

The Regulations map, on the other hand, tells you the exact rules of the curb. This includeswhat uses curb space is designated for (like parking, loading, or street cleaning); who is allowed to use the space (like motorcyclists, trucks, or handicap placard holders); how muchyou have to pay to park in a given parking spot; and how long you’re allowed to stay there. We know how these rules vary by day of the week and by time of day, so you’ll get the right rules even in the most complicated situations. The regulations map helps answer questions like:

How many spaces are reserved for truck loading and unloading in the mornings?
How many designated accessible parking spaces are there in a particular commercial area?
Which neighborhoods have the most taxi stands?
Where are all of the 30-minute parking spots in the city?

Once you’ve found what you’re looking for, Curb Analytics makes it easy to export the data so you can share and analyze it further. Not only can you export into a GeoJSON file or a Shapefile for use in GIS software, you can also export as PDF, complete with beautiful charts, making presentations a snap!

Who is Curb Analytics for?

Everyone! We designed Curb Analytics so that anyone in your organization can get the curb data they need, regardless of whether or not you know how to use GIS software. But because our data exports seamlessly in industry-standard formats, Curb Analytics works well with GIS tools, too. If you want to do any of the following, Curb Analytics is for you:

Deliver impressive presentations about a city’s parking supply and needs;
Understand the allocation of curb space in your city, and compare it with other transportation data to suggest changes to how the city allocates this space;
Figure out the parking impacts of new curb infrastructure, like bike lanes, scooter parking, or pick-up/drop-off zones, and find ways to mitigate the effects on existing curb users;
Create compelling proposals and bids for parking studies or larger transportation projects that involve curbside management, without doing any advance data collection.

We’re excited to get curb data into more hands. Please get in touch to ask questions, suggest an idea or report a problem with our platform by emailing us at info@coord.co.

Coord, UPS: It’s Time to Step Up our Curbs

April 15, 2019

It’s Time to Step Up our Curbs

By Thomas Madrecki, Director of Urban Innovation and Mobility UPS

When it comes to designing safer, less congested and more livable streets, there are two experiences I wish I could share with any transportation planner, engineering consultant or local leader:

First, what it’s like to be a cyclist and a pedestrian – in their city, and then in Copenhagen.

And second, what it’s like to deliver for a company like UPS.

In both cases, I think that experience would make a deep impression. As a cyclist myself, I frequently remark that viewing the transportation environment as a cyclist distinctly changes your point of view on things. It’s a shift in perspective that forces you to confront what works and what doesn’t – sometimes even to the point of peril / potential harm as you navigate from Point A to Point B.

Delivering for UPS or other logistics companies would have the same kind of impact. Funnily enough, I’ve done that too, because everyone at UPS Public Affairs has to drive a truck at some point in their career. But for me, as transportation policy advocate and curb management wonk (how many of us are there?), it also brought many issues into immediate clarity.

As a UPS driver, your job is to deliver the packages on your truck to their intended recipients. Sure, there are other aspects and nuances as a service provider, but really, it’s straightforward. You start with a full truck each morning and you don’t go home until the truck is empty.

Just like cyclists and pedestrians, UPS drivers notice things, too. Generally speaking, you drive in the same neighborhood every day, and you start to know the roads, buildings and people like the back of your hand. You need to, because time is of the essence.

What do you know about roads, buildings and people?

You know that there’s limited parking, everywhere you go – and that frequently, because of e-commerce, you’re not just going to places with clearly marked loading zones.

You know that what you do inside a building has a distinct impact on how long that delivery takes – which in turn means how long your truck is parked outside.

And you know that 1) People order all sorts of crazy things – in increasing quantities and that 2) You need to take every precaution to stay safe.

I mention these three insights because although they might seem like common sense to anyone who has driven a commercial vehicle, they often aren’t present in how transportation planning professionals think about street design and curbside regulation.

To their credit, this is partially a new development, accelerated by e-commerce growth and the rapid rise of home delivery expectations. More packages than ever before need to be delivered, and those packages are less consolidated to single addresses than ever before, too. And because of demand, there are also more trucks on the road, competing for the same limited pool of legal parking spots.

Put differently, demand for curbside space is changing at an unprecedented clip. E-commerce is not that different than the rise in transportation network companies like Uber and Lyft; both trends create a curb demand that’s radically different than a personal vehicle parking space.

If that’s the case, anyone who wants to limit double parking, lane blockages, parking in the bike lane, and other less-than-desirable behaviors would do well to revisit the curb and understand how it disproportionately impacts the transportation network. If we solve curb issues, we start to solve congestion and quality of life issues.

One groundbreaking idea in this regard is the concept of a “flex zone.” Basically, you’d take away a bunch of personal vehicle parking spots and replace them with a curbside that can be occupied on a rotating, potentially regulated / managed basis. Washington DC DOT recently conducted a similar curb management pilot for late-night passenger pick-up and drop-off in a popular bar and entertainment neighborhood, and the results have been promising.

In a flex zone, transportation network companies, e-commerce delivery, food and beverage distribution, plumbing and electrical repair services and more all make the cut – and the idea is you can keep traffic moving and better provide for necessary curbside demands. At the same time, cities could make strides toward greater inclusion of active and shared mobility streams at the curb and sidewalk level, incorporating design and regulatory changes to facilitate bike-share, scooters, and whatever’s next – including eventual autonomous vehicle pick-up and drop-off.

Other solutions may be less progressive, but similarly impactful. Consider:

Many municipalities drop requirements for off-street or curbside loading areas due to pressure from the development community seeking exemptions to existing ordinances

Only a small handful of American cities still have a functioning network of alleys, which further support off-street loading and unloading.

How and why loading zones are allocated varies by city – in Chicago, for example, they were historically requested by a local business nearby. But wouldn’t it make more sense for loading zones to be allocated based on actual demand?

In Washington DC, a curb study found that the District possesses 1 loading zone for every 520 personal vehicle spots. Do our curbs reflect our cities’ stated transportation priorities? We need to raise the profile of other uses – for 1) shared mobility; 2) urban goods movement; and 3) ensuring the safety of all road users, including pedestrians and cyclists.

Let’s talk enforcement – and right away, I’ll admit that UPS pays its fair share in parking tickets. But if actual behavior change is desired, and not just an ongoing municipal revenue stream, then enforcement needs to be consistent, equitable and robust. This was an issue with New York’s “Clear Curbs” pilot launched early last year. The intention to limit curb use on congested avenues maybe made theoretically, but if only a single United States Postal Service truck parks at the curb regardless – and can’t be ticketed or towed – then you still have an entire lane blocked to traffic.

For its part, UPS is also looking for ways to collaborate with cities and local leaders on how to better manage curbside issues and limit congestion and our environmental impact as the number of e-commerce deliveries rise. That’s why we’ve launched more than 30 cycle logistic pilot projects all around the world, using our innovative e-assist cargo bikes to deliver in the last mile (link).

We’ve also explored data-sharing partnerships through academic institutions (link) and innovation incubators (link) to help better understand what drives congestion and how to best address that challenge. And far away from the latest techno-wizardry, UPS has long been a proponent of good old-fashioned driver safety (link), a commitment that’s a fundamental part of our DNA and also reflected in initiatives like the UPS Road Code (link) and The Global Road Safety Initiative (link).

Critically, it’s important to understand that there’s no silver bullet solution to curbside management or congestion issues, apart from continued collaboration. And as last-mile delivery solutions change – from e-cargo bikes to robot dogs (link) to the cutest burrito burro you’ve ever seen (link), that level of collaboration will need to be even greater, because each solution requires new considerations about land use, right of way, staging areas, and generally how things are signed, coded and regulated.

Managing the curb probably isn’t the sexiest transportation topic on the planet, but its ripple effect on other aspects of how people and goods get around is enormous. Cities are at the cusp of a whole-scale mobility revolution, with e-commerce and transportation network companies as just the tip of the iceberg. Working together to deliver better curb solutions is the first step in improving quality of life in the places we call home.

www.coord.co/post/time-to-step-up-our-curbs

INTRODUCING CURBWAY: NEW DIGITAL CURB MANAGEMENT AND MOBILITY PLATFORM FOR CITIES

October 15, 2018

INTRODUCING CURBWAY:

NEW DIGITAL CURB MANAGEMENT AND MOBILITY PLATFORM FOR CITIES

As Cities Battle Over Curbside Usage, Curbway Brings “Air Traffic Control” To The Curb By Building A Comprehensive Curb Management Platform For Cities

New Orleans, LA– October 16, 2018– Today Curbway announced the development of a comprehensive curb management platform that paves a realistic pathway for cities to control and manage their curbside assets. The platform serves as an intermediary between cities and their parking & enforcement vendors, delivery & shipping providers, TNCs, public transportation resources, and other emerging multi-modal mobility assets.

According to the International Parking Institute’s 2018 Emerging Trends in Parking Survey, the need for new curb management strategies was the top ranked emerging trend for parking and mobility professionals. In fact, the Trends report notes, “it’s all about the curb.”

From New York to Los Angeles, local curb usage laws vary widely and complaints about infrastructure strain and quality-of-life are mounting as demand for curb usage soars, triggered in part by ride and bike share providers, online deliveries, public safety issues and rising urban tourism.

Curbway will serve as the platform of record by centralizing and storing all rate, policy, and transactional data associated with the city’s curb use. This data is used by Curbway’s application modules to provide immediate opportunities for solving pain points in urban landscapes. As an example, Curbway’s mobile payment aggregator allows cities to enable their curbs to accept multiple payment providers and achieve higher adoption of mobile parking payments, a key step toward truly digitizing the curb. Curbway will also provide modules for cities to directly manage the growing influx of curb traffic associated with shared service providers and, eventually, autonomous vehicles.

Curbway’s key innovations that address core market challenges include:

Mapping and digitizing city curb inventory and policies
Making payments universal and cross-platform
Improving compliance with the use of existing enforcement strategies

Curbway will be piloting this platform in select cities in early 2019 and will make the solution available to the entire market in the second quarter of 2019.

Curbway has assembled an executive team with deep expertise in technology, mobile payments, parking operations, and urban mobility. John Spivey is Curbway’s CEO, a seasoned entrepreneur with 25+ years of experience in executive leadership in start-up and emerging growth companies with a special emphasis on transformative software-as-a-service platforms. Charley DeBow will serve as EVP of Strategy and Partnerships after spending the last 4 years expanding mobile parking payments to over 100 cities in the U.S. Nathan Donnell will serve as EVP of Business Development, an innovative industry strategist with 20+ years of sales and management experience within the parking and mobility industries. Anthony Broad-Crawford, a global technology executive with 15+ years of experience in thought leadership, with special focus on the Urban Tech and mobility industries will serve as strategic executive advisor leading all technology. Curbway’s advisory board also consists of parking and technology experts with over 50 years of combined industry expertise.

“The curb is one of the most undervalued city assets and still operates in an analog fashion. Confusing signage, antiquated policies, and complex zoning regulations all complicate management efforts for this essential public space. Digital curb management is the single biggest transportation challenge facing municipal transportation professionals, urban planners, administrators and public policy managers. We are laser-focused on delivering a software platform that allows cities to take meaningful steps toward comprehensive, digital management of their curbs which, in turn, will yield safer streets and greener, more livable cities. We are eager to start helping cities command their curb,” said John Spivey, CEO.

About Curbway:

Curbway is a New Orleans based mobility company lead by experts in the industry with a combined 50 years experience in parking operations, public sector and mobility. Senior management includes innovators and product designers from leading parking payment providers and technology ventures. The company is designing the next generation mobility solution for cities.

Web: curbway.com

Social: Twitter (@curbway), Instagram (@curbway), Facebook (fb.com/curbway), LinkedIn (linkedin.com/company/curbway)

Curbway Contacts:

John Spivey, CEO

jspivey@curbway.com

Media Contacts:

Jeff Hinson, Marketing Director

jhinson@jmhcompanies.com

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