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There are 18.8 million vehicles registered in Australia, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ last survey. That is a lot of wheels on the road – where are they all going to park? In their current form, Australian on-street parking sites tend to focus solely on managing the drivers […]

For many, many years, the chalking of tyres has been the only method with which to monitor parking overstay activity. But this exhausting process of marking and then revisiting the car to check the tyre(s) a second time is physically demanding, extremely time-consuming, and can be easily ‘gamed’ by drivers […]

Australians want the future of driving now – but are they ready for the future of parking? April 2017 research from Roy Morgan indicates that 46 per cent of Australians are ready to start using autonomous vehicles right away, with the vast majority of under-50s the most enthusiastic about the […]

A growing region like the City of Ryde needs infrastructure systems to match that growth. To manage the public space efficiently, Councils need forward thinking solutions, from parks management to managing parking. For Ryde Council in metropolitan Sydney, this means staying on top of parking demands in the Macquarie Park […]

Duncan Solutions is pleased to have been nominated as a finalist for the 2020 Parking Australia Awards. Duncan Solutions has been nominated for the truly innovative suite implemented for our client – Property NSW in The Rocks, Sydney. As part of the solution which was implemented, Duncan Solutions deployed a […]

Every year, the Federal Budget changes the way our country operates. Tweaks to company tax, removals of legislation and announcements of new infrastructure all add up (ideally) to a better, higher-performing Australia. In the 2017 budget from the Federal Government, there was some extremely important news for the parking industry […]

Investing in concepts isn’t the same as investing in results. City planners, designers and project development teams who work together to implement new parking strategies across their municipalities must see tangible, measurable results in order to justify their investment in ‘smart city’ technology. Many alleged ‘smart city’ parking solutions are […]

Not even the big banks can fight the rise of digital wallets. In March this year, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) ruled against many of the country’s biggest banks in their bid to boycott Apple Pay – something the ACCC believes has a specific motive. “We are concerned […]

Macau is an autonomous region on the south coast of China, across the Pearl River Delta from Hong Kong. With towering skyscrapers, hotels, casinos and shopping malls, the area has earned the nickname, ‘Las Vegas of Asia’. Despite establishing itself as an emerging megalopolis, until recently the region still used […]

The digital age is here to stay. Industries across Australia are being transformed from the inside out as new technologies come into play, reforming the way businesses do business and how consumers consume. Technology in car park management is no different. Parking technology is more than just miniature printers, it’s […]