DEPARTMENT: Transportation & Capital Improvements
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Mike Frisbie, P.E.
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Citywide
SUBJECT:
Contract Award: Parking Space Indicator System in the Long-Term Parking Garage at San Antonio International Airport
SUMMARY:
An ordinance awarding a construction contract in an amount not to exceed $3,291,476.00 to Park Assist, LLC for the construction of a new Parking Space Indicator System at the Long Term Garage at San Antonio International Airport (SAT), an Airport Improvement & Contingency funded project.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The San Antonio Airport System (SAAS) is continuously looking for ways to improve the customer experience through infrastructure improvements. In the past year, the airport system has replaced its wayfinding campus-wide; improved roadway striping; remediated deteriorated roads; and opened the Consolidated Rental Car Facility (ConRAC), which houses a new short-term parking garage. The short-term parking garage received a new parking space indicator system that clearly shows incoming passengers where available parking spaces are, which decreases dwell time in the garage looking for parking, reduces vehicle emissions and enhances the customer experience. The positive feedback from short-term parking garage patrons supported the effort to expand this program into the long-term parking garage.
The new parking space indicator system will provide accurate vehicle count and disseminate space availability information at the long term parking garage and two adjacent surface parking lots; the Long-term Surface Parking Lot and the Consolidated Rental Car Facility Surface Parking Lot. Park Assist's M4 System will use a camera-based smart-sensor system to track vehicles and parking spaces in the long-term garage. Wireless sensors complementing the M4 system will be installed at the entrance and exit of each on the two adjacent surface lots to track vehicles and parking spaces. All of the vehicle dete...
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