FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Jon Ross, MPSA Partners -- 773/271-4050
MPSA Partners to Provide “Virtual Consulting” for Cities’ Parking Management Operations
(CHICAGO) January 23, 2003 – MPSA Partners, a consulting firm specializing in parking management and transportation infrastructure planning, announced an internet-based offering that will assess cities’ parking operations at significantly reduced cost from standard, on-site consulting.
The on-line service will incorporate the firm’s core diagnostic services into a “virtual consulting” offering, said Principal P. Buxton Williams. MPSA will make its detailed analytic questionnaire, currently administered on-site over the course of a week or more, available to clients through a password-protected website. Clients will submit the information via the Internet, and MPSA will, through web- and teleconferencing, make sure all data are accurate and complete and conduct additional interviews with clients. From there, MPSA will provide the client with a set of detailed recommendations for operational and revenue enhancements within 2-3 weeks. A preliminary evaluation survey – a shorter, non-password protected version – is available cost-free.
“This service gives clients the same expertise off-site that we provide in person,” Williams said. “The difference is in time and cost. In a down economy, when local governments are operating under tight budgets, it’s difficult for some cities – especially those under a million in population – to act quickly on key revenue- and customer-service related programs and get maximum return on investment. We’re offering them these services so they can quickly and efficiently increase revenues and enhance operations in their parking management systems.”
The MPSA assessment covers issuance/collection strategies, payment options, enforcement methods, business process, database usage, IT applications, business processes, new revenue-generation strategies, public affairs/communications, and public-private partnerships, among others. “The recommendations we make as a result of the assessment, when implemented, can increase collections and add new revenues of five or six figures a year, in addition to cost savings and efficiencies,” Williams said. “We’re confident that clients, once they see the breadth of the issues we’re raising for them, will want us to help them implement these improvements.”
Key benefits derived from the MPSA process are extensive, Williams said. They include:
- Improving all citation collection rates – parking, traffic/moving violations, and other citations
- Increasing revenues and identifying alternate revenue sources
- Enhancing government-to-citizen services
- Realizing new and enhanced operational efficiencies and cost savings
- Integrating parking management programs and solutions with other government functions (i.e., false alarm, permits, 9-1-1/3-1-1 programs, etc.)
- Creating infrastructure improvements that align parking and transportation programs with new economic/business development opportunities
- Freeing up and redeploying new resources to pay for expanded parking and public safety programs
To arrange for the service, cities should contact Williams at 708/955-7818 (buxton@mpsapartners.com) or Jon Ross at 773/271-4050 (jon@mpsapartners.com).
More information about the company is available at www.mpsapartners.com. MPSA Partners, based in Chicago, provides a range of professional services in Parking Management Solutions and Infrastructure Planning, Economic Development and Privatization. It serves municipalities, universities, hospitals and private-sector operators in citation management, parking system privatization, business planning and analysis and related fields.
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