Low-Footprint
Parking™
Low-FootprintParking
Parking as we know it is a compromise: “You can have this, or that, but not both.”
If you need parking for residents, or employees, or customers, conventional wisdom says you have two basic options: surface parking and concrete parkades.
People put up with the compromise for two reasons: first, nobody offered them a read alternative, and second, the relationship between people, cars, and places was pretty much static since the middle of the last century.
That’s changing. Fast.
There four trends all amplify the compromise of parking as we’ve known it.
And now there’s a real alternative.
Now Licensed in Canada
Recently s2e received TSSA approval for the operation of Canada’s first
Low Footprint Parking installation at EVE Park in London, Ontario.
How does it work? Picture a ferris wheel for cars. One with all kinds of safety and convenience features of course, but that’s the basic idea. Drive in, hook up the charge cable if you wish, close the door, walk away, and your car gets rotated up to a safe, weather-protected location. When you want it back- one click on your smartphone app and the car rotates to ground level, ready to drive away.
From a price point, Low Footprint Parking sits between surface parking and a multi-story parkade. From a feature standpoint, Low Footprint Parking is right on trend:
1. Electrification
s2e has devised a smart and efficient way to manage parking for an increasingly electrified fleet.
2. Auto Theft
Low Footprint parking is going to introduce new challenges for car thieves. No, we won’t say more about that.
3. Consumer Trends
Low footprint parking is modular, it can be constructed in phases, it can also dismantled and moved to a new location. This feature helps deal with fluctuating or uncertain demand.
4. Extreme Weather
Cars in low-footprint parking towers are protected from the elements. In the event of extreme weather, they will be less vulnerable to fast-runoff and flooding problems than conventional parking solutions.
1. Electrification
s2e has devised a smart and efficient way to manage parking for an increasingly electrified fleet.
2. Auto Theft
Low Footprint parking is going to introduce new challenges for car thieves. No, we won’t say more about that.
3. Consumer Trends
Low footprint parking is modular, it can be constructed in phases, it can also dismantled and moved to a new location. This feature helps deal with fluctuating or uncertain demand.
4. Extreme Weather
Cars in low-footprint parking towers are protected from the elements. In the event of extreme weather, they will be less vulnerable to fast-runoff and flooding problems than conventional parking solutions.
Parking Tower Dimensions
Who is Low Footprint Parking for?
Property Developers
Trying to make a site plan work, and dealing with some difficult trade-offs on parking? maybe there is a better way.
Municipalities
Trying to encourage “missing-middle” densification, but worries about street-level parking impacts? You can permit developers to solve the problem with Low Footprint parking.
Employers
Trying to expand a plant without buying more land? Maybe some of that surface parking can be stacked in towers instead.
