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Mayor Young Applauds New Partnership Between the Parking Authority of Baltimore City and SpotAngels

January 30, 2020

 

 

Mayor Young Applauds New Partnership Between the Parking Authority of Baltimore City and SpotAngels

 

The “Waze for Parking” App Helps Users Find Parking

 

 

BALTIMORE, MD.  — Finding a parking spot in Baltimore City just got a little easier. The Parking Authority of Baltimore City (PABC) announces its partnership with SpotAngels, the first free, community-based parking app that helps drivers identify parking that meets their needs, avoiding future parking citations.

“I applaud the Parking Authority of Baltimore City for looking at new and innovative ways to address old struggles for drivers in Baltimore City,” said Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young. “This new partnership with SpotAngels will bring relief to residents and visitors alike as they travel across and around our city. I will always support innovative ideas and partnerships that benefit the residents of Baltimore, especially when those ideas aim to save our residents time and money.”

By downloading the SpotAngels app, parkers can search for parking near their destination, and compare prices, duration limits and parking restrictions. Armed with this information, drivers can avoid parking in tow-away zones, or streets with street cleaning or residential permit restrictions.

The goal of this partnership is to ease the parking headaches for both residents and visitors looking to enjoy the city. Over the past year, the app has provided 1.9 million drivers with information they used to make smart parking decisions.

How it Works

SpotAngels, called the “Waze of Parking” by Google, displays both on-street and off-street parking information on a map, showing drivers where to find cheap parking for the length of time they need. The app also shows all the rules such as loading zones, no parking and all other restrictions, helping parkers comply with the rules and avoid tickets. It also shows the hours of operation and hourly rate at parking meters, parking lots and garages.

A crowd-sourced app, all the parking information on SpotAngels can be easily updated by users directly on the app. The more data, the easier it is for everyone to find parking. PABC provided SpotAngels with data on parking meters, on-street parking restrictions and City-owned garages.

When a user leaves a parking spot, the app displays the available parking space to the rest of the community. These parking patterns collected from the community are then used to make recommendations on where you’re likely to find an open parking spot.

How SpotAngels is Different

The uniqueness of SpotAngels is not only in the fact that it’s the first to display all the parking information in a City but also because it is crowdsourced. It is the first app in the industry to create a voice for the parkers to help make their own parking experience better.

“It is thrilling to be partnering with an organization like the Parking Authority of Baltimore City,” says SpotAngels Vice President Maxwell Mickey, “Between visitors and residents, Baltimore hosts close to 30+ Million people a year. That is a lot of people and a lot of cars! We are looking forward to helping them quickly navigate the City.”

 About SpotAngels

 SpotAngels has previously established its community of drivers in 35+ cities including several metros nationwide such as San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, San Diego, New York City, Boston, Chicago, Seattle, Washington D.C., Philadelphia. In 2018, the app was featured by Apple and Google as “Waze for Parking” among the best apps. The company is backed by the co-founder of Google Maps, Lars Rasmussen among other Silicon Valley investors. SpotAngels is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store and is free to download and use.

About the Parking Authority of Baltimore City

Parking Authority of Baltimore City (PABC) is a quasi-governmental agency of Baltimore City and a registered 501c3 with a mission to find, or create, and implement parking solutions for Baltimore City, and to be the resource on all things “parking” in Baltimore. PABC oversees the management of 14 parking garages, numerous lots, over 800 EZ Park Meters, over 1,500 reserved residential handicap parking spaces, and 46 residential permit parking areas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

City of Virginia Beach Partners with “Waze for Parking” App, SpotAngels, to Help Users Find Parking, Avoid Tickets, and soon Pay the Meter

November 13, 2019

 

 

 

City of Virginia Beach Partners with “Waze for Parking” App, SpotAngels,

to Help Users Find Parking, Avoid Tickets, and soon Pay the Meter

 

 

 

SpotAngels, the leading & free community-based parking app that helps drivers find parking and avoid tickets announces today its launch in Virginia Beach as part of a curb management project with the city. The goal of this partnership is to ease the parking headaches for both residents and visitors looking to enjoy the city. Over the past year, the app saved drivers in cities including New York, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia and more over $20M in parking tickets as well as time and money finding parking.

 

 

City of Virginia Beach partners with SpotAngels to make parking easier

 

How it Works

 

SpotAngels, the “Waze of Parking,” works by displaying a map with the location of all street parking spots, parking lots and garages, helping drivers find free and cheap parking, comply with the rules and avoid tickets. For each spot, the app shows all the rules such as loading zones, no parking hours and all other restrictions, prices of meters and rates of parking lots and garages. In addition to these features, SpotAngels has integrated with the PARCS of city owned off-street facilities to display availability on the map and has partnered with advance booking platforms, providing a one-stop-shop for parking and availability for Virginia Beach.

 

All the parking information on SpotAngels can be easily updated directly on the app. Also, the app shares information with others to make it easy to find parking. It knows when you leave a spot and displays it to the rest of the community. These parking patterns collected from the community are then used to make recommendations on where you’re likely to find an open parking spot.

 

How SpotAngels is Different

 

The uniqueness of SpotAngels is not only in the fact that it’s the first to display all the street parking information but also in the fact that it is crowdsourced. It is the first app in the industry to create a voice for the parkers to help make their own parking experience better.

 

“We are thrilled to bring SpotAngels to Virginia Beach and for the very first time show citizens and visitors absolutely all the parking information,” says Hamza Ouazzani Chahdi, co-founder of SpotAngels. “We are very excited to be working with the City of Virginia Beach, one of the most innovative cities in the nation!”

 

Coming soon: Pay the Meter!

 

In addition to showing citizens and visitors all the parking information, the City of Virginia Beach has agreed to enable SpotAngels as an additional option to pay the meter – in a move that makes it one of the first cities in the nation to open meter payment to multiple vendors. The goal for the City is two-fold: 1/ provide more choices to citizens and thus increase competition, innovation and ultimately customer service and ease of compliance; 2/ increase mobile payment penetration in the City which will help save the city cash collection costs. This feature will be live in the SpotAngels app as soon as the meters are up and running again in the spring, since they are free of charge during the winter.

 

About SpotAngels:

SpotAngels has previously established its community of drivers in 35+ cities including several metros nationwide such as San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, San Diego, New York City, Boston, Chicago, Seattle, Washington D.C., Philadelphia. In 2018, the app was featured by Apple and Google as “Waze for Parking” among the best apps. The company is backed by the co-founder of Google Maps, Lars Rasmussen among other Silicon Valley investors.SpotAngels is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store and is free to download and use.

 

 

City of Las Vegas Partners with “Waze for Parking” App, SpotAngels to Help Users Find Parking and Avoid Tickets

April 08, 2019

 

 

 

City of Las Vegas Partners with “Waze for Parking” App, SpotAngels

to Help Users Find Parking and Avoid Tickets

 

 

 

Las Vegas Leads Country in First-of-its Kind Partnership

 

 

 

SpotAngels, the leading community-based free parking app that helps drivers find parking and avoid tickets announces today its launch in Las Vegas as part of a curb management project with the city. The goal of this partnership is to ease the parking headaches for both residents and tourists looking to enjoy the city. Over the past year, the app saved drivers in cities including New York, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia and more over $10M in parking tickets as well as time and money finding parking.

 

“The number one complaint we get from citizens is their inability to find parking and we’re hoping to change that with this partnership for both our residents and the tourists that keep this city running. SpotAngels information will greatly help our customers make informed decisions and we are excited to see the results on our annual customer survey.” says Brandy Stanley, Parking Services Manager at the City of Las Vegas.

 

City of Las Vegas partners with SpotAngels to make parking easier

 

How it Works

 

SpotAngels, the “Waze of Parking,” works by displaying a map with the location of all street parking spots, parking lots and garages, helping drivers find free and cheap parking, comply with the rules and avoid tickets. For each spot, the app shows all the rules such as street cleaning, loading zones, no parking hours and all other restrictions, prices of meters and rates of   garages. In addition to these features, SpotAngels has integrated mobile payment and advance booking platforms, providing a one-stop-shop for parking and availability for the entire Las Vegas area.

 

All the parking information on SpotAngels can be easily updated directly on the app. Also, the app shares information with others to make it easy to find parking. It knows when you leave a spot and displays it to the rest of the community. These parking patterns collected from the community are then used to make recommendations on where you’re likely to find an open parking spot.

 

How SpotAngels is Different

 

The uniqueness of SpotAngels is not only in the fact that it’s the first to display all the street parking information but also in the fact that it is crowdsourced. It is the first app in the industry to create a voice for the parkers to help make their own parking experience better.

 

“We are thrilled to bring SpotAngels to Las Vegas and for the very first time show citizens and visitors absolutely all the parking information and payment options around them,” says Hamza Ouazzani Chahdi, co-founder of SpotAngels. “We are very excited to be working with the City of Las Vegas, one of the most forward thinking cities in the nation!”

 

About SpotAngels:

SpotAngels has previously established its community of drivers in several metros nationwide including San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, San Diego, New York City, Boston, Chicago, Seattle, Washington D.C., Philadelphia. In 2018, the app was featured by Apple and Google as “Waze for Parking” among the best apps. The company is backed by the co-founder of Google Maps, Lars Rasmussen among other Silicon Valley investors. SpotAngels is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store and is free to download and use.

 

SpotAngels Announces a New Partnership with the City of Las Vegas 

March 18, 2019

 

SpotAngels Announces a New Partnership with the City of Las Vegas

 

SpotAngels, the “Waze for Parking” – a free community-based parking app that helps drivers find parking and avoid tickets, today announces a a new partnership with the city of Las Vegas to provide them with data to help improve the parking situation (which is the #1 complaint from citizens) in Las Vegas.

 
 
The partnership includes:
–A comprehensive online parking map containing unprecedented level of detail of street parking (location of all spots whether metered or not, all prices, all rules that are on signs, information about mobile payment) and off-street parking (locations of parking lots and garages, all prices, information about advance online booking / on-site mobile payment).
This was made available to the City in 2 weeks whereas it used to take them months to collect the data with a lower level of detail.
–A medium to communicate this parking information to citizens for free to help them find parking and understand all the rules. The parking map is available on www.spotangels.com/las-vegas-parking and on the free SpotAngels mobile apps on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Users of the app will be able to crowdsource information to enhance the parking map of their city and keep it up-to-date.
–A Map Editor tool enabling the City of Las Vegas to make updates to the parking map that will be live instantly on the SpotAngels website and mobile apps and to validate all updates made by citizens.

“Waze for Parking” app SpotAngels launches in LA with support from its local community

December 13, 2018

 

 

 

“Waze for Parking” app SpotAngels launches in LA

with support from its local community

 

 

 

 

SpotAngels – the “Waze for Parking” – a community-based parking app that helps drivers find parking and avoid tickets, announces today its launch in Los Angeles on the heels of a recent round of funding led by co-founder of Google Maps, Lars Rasmussen.

 

SpotAngels has previously established its community of drivers in the San Francisco Bay Area and Greater New York City saving them over $7.5m on street cleaning tickets as well as time and money finding parking. In San Francisco, 1% of the city’s drivers now actively use SpotAngels.

 

Unlike other apps like SpotHero that just show parking garages, SpotAngels shows street parking as well as provides you with alerts on parking rules so you never get a ticket.

 

“Our community of drivers has been asking us to expand to other cities where they travel to and where they have friends and family who struggle with finding parking and avoiding street cleaning tickets. Los Angeles is THE car city and although we can’t help with the traffic, we can help reduce the hours it takes to find a spot,” says Aboud Jardaneh, co-founder of SpotAngels.

 

SpotAngels displays a crowdsourced map showing the location of all street parking spots and garages, with detailed rules and prices kept up-to-date by the active community. It includes local specificities such as LA’s residential parking permits enabling to park for free. The map helps drivers find free and cheap parking, fast.

 

SpotAngels also makes sure that drivers never get a parking ticket. The app runs in the background and knows where and when you park your car and you leave a spot. It sends reminders when it’s time to move their car for street cleaning or any other parking rule.

After leaving a spot, the map displays an open spot in the form of a yellow bubble to help other drivers of the community find a spot.

 

The uniqueness of SpotAngels is that the all the parking information is crowdsourced.

“Our local community in LA helped build the map you currently see.” says Jardaneh.

Anyone can add or edit a parking spot on the map by sending a picture of parking signs through the app. For avid map contributors, they can join the SpotAngels Map Makers community (by reaching out to support@spotangels.com) and will be given access to an editor tool on the web that will enable them to map full neighborhoods.

SpotAngels is available on the App Store and Play Store and was previously featured by Apple and Google as “Waze for Parking” among the best apps of 2017 and 2018. The company is backed by the co-founder of Google Maps, the former Head of Google Street View and prominent investors from Silicon Valley.