Why attend?
Managing the movement and parking of vehicles is vital to ensuring the health and vitality of towns and cities. This means that parking and traffic management teams are an essential service.
The traffic and parking sector has played a central role in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Towns and cities across the UK implemented an impressive range of emergency traffic and street-scene measures, including pop-up cycleways and wider pavements to make cycling and walking safer, while supporting the logistics sector in maintaining essential supplies and services were maintained
Traffic + Parking is a forum in which parking and traffic management professionals from both the public and private sectors can gather to discuss the operational issues that really matter to them, and also learn about the latest policy, legislative and technology developments from leaders in the field.
Themes for discussion include...
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Moving traffic regulation and enforcement
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Parking payment policy and technology
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Digitisation of parking services
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The role of big and open data
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Electric vehicle charging
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Mobility hubs
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Kerbside management
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Road space reallocation schemes
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Low Traffic Neighbourhoods
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Clean air schemes
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School streets
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Regulating pavement parking
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Residential parking
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Consultation and public engagement
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Blue Badges and accessible parking
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Cycle, e-bike and e-scooter parking
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Road user charging and workplace parking levies
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The taxation of parking
Who you will meet
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Local authority parking managers
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Private sector parking contractors
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Traffic managers
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Road safety specialists
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Motoring organisations
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Logistics and delivery organisations
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Car club operators
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Transport consultants
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Debt recovery agents
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Uniform suppliers
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Parking equipment and technology suppliers
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Payment processing specialists
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IT companies
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App developers
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Technologists
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Town centre managers
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Urban regeneration experts
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Signs and lines specialists
Conference programme
Please note that the agenda is currently being programmed. Updates to follow.
09.00
Lobby
Registration opens, and Tea & Coffee served in the Pioneer Room
09.45
The Pendulum Suite
Traffic + Parking 2021
The pandemic encouraged an openness to new ways of working and shopping. Politicians, planners, businesses and the public are receptive to an acceleration in the adoption of electric motoring, clean air schemes, the smarter use of data, active travel and the adoption of shared and micro-mobility services. Is revolution the new normal?
Welcome: Mike Marrs, President, British Parking Association
What’s on the road ahead?
Keynote: A cleaner route to recovery
The traffic and parking sector will be playing a key role in delivering both economic recovery and addressing concerns around issues such as air pollution, congestion, encouraging active travel and decarbonising transport. Measures such as Clean Air Zones, new moving traffic regulations, rolling out electric vehicle infrastructure and reorganising urban roadspace are creating better, vibrant and healthier towns and cities.
Nick Ruxton-Boyle, Director of Environment, Marston Holdings
Engagement, education and enforcement
Parking and Traffic Regulation Outside London (PATROL) is encouraging local authorities to engage with the public in order to increase understanding and compliance with parking, moving traffic and clean air regulations.
Laura Padden, Director, PATROL
Ensuring access for all: Beating the Blue Badge cheats
Blue Badge parking permits enable disabled people to park nearer to where they are going. However,
fraud and misuse of permits are an on-going threat to the scheme’s integrity. This presentation will
make the case for taking a proactive approach to detecting and prosecuting Blue Badge fraudsters.
Paul Slowey, Director, BBFi Public Sector Investigations
11.00
The Pioneer Room
Morning break
Tea & coffee - Networking with the exhibitors
11.30
The Pendulum Suite
Payment trends
The Traffic + Parking session on payment trends is one of the most popular forums for sharing and
discussing the latest systems and services. This year we will be taking a deep-dive into the worlds of multi-vendor and cross-boundary parking transactions.
Chair: Chris Newman, UK Regional Director, Conduent Transportation
National Parking Platform – Keith Williams, Parking Matters
The local authority perspective – Danny Holden, Off-Street Car Parks Project Manager, Manchester City Council
The payment provider perspective – Andy Stott, Sales Director, RingGo
Digitising Blue Badge parking – Rebecca Maisey, Client Director, PayByPhone
Virtual parking permits and emissions-based charging - Dave Herbert, Chief Executive Officer, ZatPark
Debate: Are multi-vendor and cross-boundary systems the future of parking?
Multi-vendor is an approach that allows local authorities and commercial car park operators to accept cashless transactions via more than one service provider. Local authorities have launched multi-vendor schemes and government-backed initiatives are developing open parking protocols.
There is a parallel debate emerging around simplifying payment options in what is a potentially fragmented electric vehicle charging ecosystem. There is also an emerging need to find ways of recognising people and vehicles that have permission to exercise parking and driving rights across local authority boundaries, including Blue Badge permits.
Moderator: Chris Newman, UK Regional Director, Conduent Transportation
The panel includes:
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Adam Dolphin, Sales Director, PayByPhone UK
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Dave Herbert, Chief Executive Officer, ZatPark
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Danny Holden, Off-Street Car Parks Project Manager, Manchester City Council
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Tim Pryor, Co-Founder and Director, 33100
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Andy Stott, Sales Director, RingGo
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Keith Williams, Parking Matters
Cotton Theatre
Can we create streets for all?
The pandemic saw the implementation of a wide range of roadspace, kerbside and pavement reallocation measures in urban centres and residential to assist social distancing and encourage walking and cycling.
Chair: Anjna Patel MBE, Principal Officer Parking and Safer and Sustainable Travel Team, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods: Behavioural change and lessons learned
Vehicular traffic inhibits local communities from using or enjoying their streets. LTNs can redefine streets as places for people, encouraging connectivity by removing traffic and providing infrastructure for sustainable travel modes. But their success relies on a combination of good design, engagement and consultation.
Chris Harrison, Technical Director, Project Centre
Ditigising kerbside management
The economies of city centres depend on freight and service vehicles being able to make deliveries punctually. Dynamic kerbside management can reduce congestion, improve air quality and enable businesses and communities to receive goods and services more efficiently by allowing drivers to book suitable and safe places to deliver in advance.
Neil Herron, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Grid Smarter Cities
From parklets to mobility hubs
Mobility hubs bring together bike-share, walking and cycling provision, shared transport and community space. They offer massive potential for outdoor seating and greenery, real-time journey planning information, cafés, fitness areas and package collection points.
Habib Khan, Director, Meristem Design
13.00
The Pioneer Room
Lunch served
Lunch and networking with the exhibitors
15:00
The Pendulum Suite
Enforcement trends: Harnessing camera and sensor technology
Camera and sensor systems are now vital elements of traffic and parking management schemes. This session will address the issues around the implementation and enforcement of traffic and parking regulations, bus lanes, School Streets, air quality schemes and noise pollution.
Chair: Graham Storrie, Regional Director (North England and Scotland), Project Centre
Innovative uses of camera systems
ANPR camera technology can be harnessed to monitor and enforce a wide range of traffic and parking needs. Static and vehicle-mounted cameras can be used for: School Street enforcement; persistent-evader detection; and the identification of vehicles that damage street assets. Derby City Council has also started engaging with the public over its plans to adopt moving traffic regulation powers under Part 6 of the Traffic Management Act.
Rob Shoebridge, Group Manager, Traffic and Transportation, Derby City Council
Using acoustic cameras to tackle anti-social behaviour vehicle driving
How cameras linked to acoustic sensors are being identify and enforce against a range of noisy vehicles under a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO).
Tim Davis, Head of Environmental Health and CREST - Interim, and Philip Richardson, Area Senior Officer, Noise and Nuisance Team, Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea
Harnessing unattended CCTV technology for cleaner air and road safety compliance
Helpful advice on the selection, installation and operation of the appropriate camera technologies.
Stuart Scott, Strategic Account Director, Videalert
Cotton Theatre
The next steps in the evolution of EV charging
Traffic and parking teams have been the forefront of delivering electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure and services at the kerbside and in public car parks. However, after many years of chargepoint installations being supported by grant funding, there is a growing commercialisation of EV charging provision, with petrochemical and energy providers acquiring and expanding several networks.
This session will look at issues such as:
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Planning, implementing and funding EV charging networks
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Upgrading and maintaining legacy chargepoints
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Ensuring rural areas are not left behind
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The pros and cons of kerbside charging
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The car park as mobility hub
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The enforcement of EV bays
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The development of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) systems
Chair: Tina Glover, Principal Engineer, Project Centre
Helping communities plug-in to EVs
Local authorities are in the forefront of providing electric vehicle infrastructure. Coventry City Council will discuss developing its range of public EV charging services. Shamala will also update us on the work of a new Transport Technology Forum (TTF) working group that helps local councils tackle the challenges around delivering charging networks for the anticipated growth in uptake of EVs.
Shamala Evans-Gadgil, Senior Programme Manager, Coventry City Council
Providing public EV charging infrastructure
This presentation will set out the key questions parking teams need to ask when deciding how to roll-out future EV provision.
Kieran Taylor, EV Consultant Lead, Project Centre
Getting your parking operation EV ready
A look at how local authorities can work with specialist charging networks such as GeniePoint to create a supported public EV charging service that can evolve as demand changes.
Simon Kendrew, Marketing Director - EV Solutions, EQUANS
16:30
The bar
Networking
Drinks with the exhibitors
*Published programme is subject to change
Speaker biographies
Please note that the agenda is currently being programmed. Updates to follow.
Payment trends
The annual Traffic + Parking session on payment trends is one of the most popular forums for sharing and discussing the latest systems and services.
Multi-vendor, cross-boundary and open parking systems - the future of parking?
This year the event will be taking a deep-dive into the worlds of multi-vendor and cross-boundary parking transactions. Multi-vendor is an approach that allows local authorities and commercial car park operators to accept cashless transactions via more than one service provider.
There is also an emerging need to recognise people and vehicles that have permission to exercise parking and driving rights across local authority boundaries, including Blue Badge permits, delivery vehicles and so on.
Multi-vendor and cross-boundary approaches offer a number of potential advantages for operators and drivers, but also presents some challenges, regarding how open a service could be and managing the exchange of data and transfer of payments.
Speakers include:
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Multi-vendor parking approaches
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Open platforms
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The National Parking Platform
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The exchange of data between different payment and permit platforms
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Multi-vendor solutions for electric vehicle (EV) charging
Chair: Dean Fennell-Connell, Conduent Transportation
National Parking Platform
Keith Williams, Parking Matters (Invited)
The payment provider perspective
Andy Stott, Sales Director, RingGo
Digitising Blue Badge parking
PayByPhone
Virtual parking permits and emissions-based charging
Dave Herbert, chief executive, ZatPark
(More speakers to follow)
Mark Moran
Event Programmer
& Editor, Parking Review
Mark Moran is the editor of Parking Review magazine and programmer of Traffic + Parking.
Mark has been the editor of Parking Review magazine since its launch in 1989. Besides the magazine, he launched and organises the annual British Parking Awards and a number of of other regular events.
In parallel to writing about traffic and parking, Mark is also a contributing editor to LTT, curates the Transports Responds bulletin and launched Evolution, a new digital magazine covering the emerging worlds of electric vehicle charging infrastructure and shared mobility.
Paul Slowey
Director,
BBFi Public Sector Investigations
Paul will be speaking in the opening session about how to detect and deter Blue Badge fraud, and he will be part of the People & Parking panel
Andy Stott
Sales Director,
RingGo
Andy will be speaking on the theme of multiple-vendor parking in the Payment trends session.
Adam Dolphin
Sales Director
PayByPhone
Adam will be part of the expert panel discussing the development of multi-vendor parking payment.
Anjna Patel MBE
Principal Officer Parking and Safer and Sustainable Travel,
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
Anjna will be chairing the session Can we create streets for all?
Keith Hanshaw
Managing Director of Project Centre & Client Services Director, Marston Holdings
Keith will be opening the afternoon People and Parking session.
Jade Neville
Head of User Experience, Conduent Transportation
& Vice-President, BPA
Jade will be taking part in the People and Parking panel exploring driver behaviour.
Andrew Potter
Director,
Parking Perspectives
Andrew will be leading the People and Parking panel exploring driver behaviour.
Stuart Scott
Strategic Account Director, Videalert
Stuart will be discussing how to harness the capability of ANPR and camera systems in the Enforcement trends session.
Mike Marrs
Business Development Director, Marston Holdings,
& President of the British Parking Association
Mike will introduce the day and take part in the People and Parking panel exploring driver behaviour.
Simon Kendrew
Marketing Director - EV Solutions, EQUANS
Simon will be speaking in the session on electric vehicle charging infrastructure
Chris Newman
UK Regional Director,
Conduent Transportation
Chris will be chairing the Payment trends session.
Dave Herbert
Chief Executive Officer,
ZatPark
David will be discussing virtual parking permits and emissions-based charging.
Chris Harrison
Technical Director,
Project Centre
Chris will be discussion issues such as the design and delivery of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods.
Neil Herron
Chief Executive Officer,
Grid Smarter Cities
Neil will be discussing how to ditigalise management of the kerbside to make deliveries work better for towns and cities.
Robert Shoebridge
Group Manager, Traffic and Transportation,
Derby City Council
Robert will be discussing innovative uses of camera technology and data in the Enforcement trends session.
Tim Pryor
Co-Founder and Director,
33100
Tim will be part of the expert panel discussion multi-vendor approaches to parking payments.
