The role played by parking professionals:

• Solving real-world parking problems
• Designing parking programs
• Planning and design parking garages
• Making parking areas green
• Planning and directing special event management

Parking professionals are employed as:

• Transportation / Traffic Engineer
• Transportation Researcher
• Project Manager
• Municipal / County / State Traffic Engineer
• Municipal / County / City / College/University /Private Parking Director
• Transportation Planner
• Academia

Skills and analytical expertise:

• Transportation Engineering
• Mathematics and statistics
• Data Archiving / Data Management
• Communication technologies (meters/gates/garage tech)
• Project Management
• Public Relations
• Problem – Solving skills
• Events Management skills (games/concernts etc.)

The type of projects that might be undertaken by parking professionals and their value to communities:

• Parking Inventory and Demand Studies
• Parking Generation Studies and Research
• Parking Pricing
• Parking Facility Automation Studies
• Special Event parking/transit management

Potential employers in the public and private sector:

• Transportation Consulting firms
• Parking Planning and Design firms
• University/College Parking Director
• Public /Private Parking Authorities
• Parking Equipment/ Vendor Organizations (software/equipment)
• Transit Agency / TOD developments
• Special Event Management