A new contract to upgrade car parking at The O2 Centre has gone to parking product company APT Skidata. This follows purchase of the prime Finchley Road retail and leisure complex by Land Securities last year.
The 10.5 acre site houses a 300,000 sq ft centre, which is anchored by a Sainsbury’s foodstore. Besides retail it has restaurants and an eight-screen Vue cinema. The surface car park, parki for some 518 cars, will have new APT Skidata barriers at the two entry and two exit points, four Easy.Cash pay stations and one Credit.Cash unit to facilitate faster card transactions.
According to Nigel Young of APT Skidata, one of the prime drivers for Land Securities opting for this technology is the APT Skidata’s new ‘Traffic Jam’ mode: “In ‘Traffic Jam’ mode, tickets can be issued in less than half a second and it is extremely effective at handling high volumes of traffic at peak periods. Visitors can avoid queues, getting in and out of the car park more quickly and with less disruption – which all contributes to the overall visitor experience.”
The hardware will run on the latest Park.Logic software, which will allow Land Securities to make maximum use of the advanced data and reporting available within the management information (MI) system.
