Parking Ticket Problems Solved With Trimble Recon

Issuing a parking ticket shouldn't be difficult. Collecting the fine shouldn't be prohibitive. Tracking the process shouldn't be exasperating. And in this technological world, no one should have to record data by hand.

In 2003, the City of Winnipeg, Manitoba, had several parking facility and resource issues that created time-consuming and expensive problems and made parking confusing for its citizens and its city workers. It was almost impossible to determine who was in control of each city asset that was parking-related: the city property department handled parking lots, while parking meters were handled by the city works department and parking enforcement was handled by the city police department. The entire parking program for the city needed restructuring.

During the following year, the Winnipeg Parking Authority (WPA) was formed. With a unified agency in place, the next step was to automate the parking system. The first step was to purchase 50 Trimble Recon handheld computers with real-time wireless communications. The Recons, loaded with T2 Flex software, allowed field officers to lookup relevant data and issue citations in the field, with the data immediately entered into the system and transferred to the office.