b'26 FLG PARKING Council about making improvements. The new economy lot washas a large office in Phoenix, Gall says. Plus, part of the under construction by 2020, and in early 2021, the airport teamselection criteria was that we needed a firm that had experience started looking for a vendor to provide a paid parking system forwith cold weather. The runway here is at 7,014 feet elevation, both of its lots. It issued a request for proposals in fall 2022 andand the airport get lots of snow. signed a contract for services with Scheidt & Bachmann USA earlyScheidt & Bachmann also previously installed parking systems this year.at airports in Dane County, WI, and Reno, NV, which also face The timeline for construction and equipment installation waswinter-related challenges. hampered by severe winter weather, including 163 inches ofAt FLG, the firm worked with airport staff to lay out the snow in the spring. In addition, electronic components andequipment islands, network and power. Once those drawings construction materials were scarce, making it a race to theand initial layouts were approved, the team met onsite to make finish to have the new facilities and systems ready for summersure the equipment was on spec, explains tourists.Project Manager John Binkowski. Scheduling was one of our evaluation criteria, Gall says. WeScheidt & Bachmann recommended have a relatively short construction window and wanted to get itAmazon Web Services integration for cloud-done before the busy season.based data storage for the new parking Scheidt & Bachmann handled the parking hardwaresystem. That helped speed up configuration and software components, and the airport selected Lovenand required less equipment on site, notes Contracting of Flagstaff, one of its on-call contractors, to installBill Geraghty, a managing director withBILL GERAGHTYthe required infrastructure. As such, Loven coordinated theScheidt & Bachmann. power and electricity to each station, installed communicationFor small and medium airports, using the cloud makes a lines from the IT room at the airport to the parking sites andlot of sense, Geraghty says. However, larger, more complex routed existing conduit in the ground to where it was needed. airports often opt for an onsite solution. One of the things I appreciate about Scheidt & BachmannTesting at FLG started on July 1 with license plate recognition is its local presence. The firm is also the parking provider forand the intercom, and the overall system went live July 17.Phoenix Sky Harbor and Phoenix Mesa Gateway airports and Benefits for the City and AirportActivation of the paid parking system was coordinated with the opening of FLGs new economy lot. The airport offered travelers a grace period to get used to the new paid Dashboard, model, and Gall reports that pushbackOccupancy, was minimal. We received complaints about specific Visit history, and more technical issues and a few about the airport moving to paid parking in general, he says. Discover the happenings inBut the public understood that it needed to your parking facilities via: be done. Aside from that, the project team faced aReal-time softwarelogistic challenge: One to two dozen vehiclesWayfinding signage were parked in the way.Camera-based:Tyler Weidinger, project manager with Loven Contracting, notes that FLG did a Parking guidance great job encouraging long-term parkers Bidirectional countingto leave. As soon as the car was moved out of a parking space, wed put a piece of Rooftop & surface lotequipment there, he explains. We found that monitoring if we placed cones, people would just move them; and that was frustrating. As soon as we put something there that people couldnt move, like a Bobcat, hydraulic attachments for the backhoe, or cement blocks, the space parkassist.com remained blocked. November | December 2023AirportImprovement.com'