Installations, upgrades, new clients, and milestones — 20 years of parking innovation across Chicagoland and beyond.
After Hurricane Ian devastated Florida's gulf coast communities, and it was safe to head over to Ft. Myers Beach, TPS went to Norm's Parking and Lani Kai, we found…
Read Article →A consultant was brought in by the Village of Broadview to conduct a study as to the feasibility to employ paid parking in the village. After they concluded that…
Read Article →In cooperation with Flowbird America based in Clearwater, TPS decided the time was right to officially expand operations to the underserved Florida Gulf Coast…
Read Article →Due to the pandemic, the Village of Oak Park postponed their five-year master plan to replace single-space meters village-wide. Getting back on track, this year…
Read Article →The Village of Deerfield contacted TPS in search of a solution to the tedious tasks honor boxes present to their users and Village staff. Flowbird/Cale parking…
Read Article →After a nearly yearlong search, including several presentations, for the best way forward in implementing a paid parking system at their Lake Michigan lakefront…
Read Article →Highland Park issued an RFP early 2022 to vendors to replace their honor boxes as the only means of payment for parking. In converting to a fully electronic Pay by…
Read Article →The Village of Libertyville needed a solution for the expansion and restructure of their Metra parking lot system. So early 2022, with the assistance of TPS and…
Read Article →Total Parking Solutions has replaced the last of the T2 pay stations for the City of Wisconsin Dells, Wi. with Flowbird S4 parking terminals. The touch screen model…
Read Article →A few years ago, the City installed a Cale CWT for parking payment in their overflow parking lot as well as for boat launching in an adjacent boat ramp. Conditions…
Read Article →With everything reopening again and commuters again taking the Metra trains, Elburn saw they could no longer depend on their old, outdated parking pay stations. Two…
Read Article →The City of Crystal Lake advertised a competitive bid for the replacement of their fifteen-year-old Cale 104XL pay stations. The choice was clear. Eight Flowbird…
Read Article →Several years ago, the City installed Parkeon Stradas to provide a payment mechanism for both parking and boat launching. Seeing that it was time to go in another…
Read Article →After years of planning and maneuvering to deliver a city-wide, uniform parking program for the City and it's residents, staff purchased the final twenty eight…
Read Article →The City of Lake Geneva has removed the last of their outdated pay stations and replaced them with touch screen Stealth Cale terminals. These new terminals located…
Read Article →Apparently Wisconsin Dells is more than satisfied with the Stealth parking terminals that TPS installed for them in 2020. This season they called TPS with an order…
Read Article →Early in 2021, AT&T informed Flowbird/Cale that all 3G communication will phased out in 2022, requiring their equipment to be converted to 4G. TPS notified all of…
Read Article →T2 Properties of Chicago took ownership of a parking lot in Chicago's Chinatown, an extremely vibrant community where parking is at a premium. TPS will be…
Read Article →Renew Properties installed a parking payment system only a few years ago and it didn't quite meet up to the hype that the vendor promised. Because they were…
Read Article →Along with the new lot, the courthouse in Joliet has also implemented pay stations through Total Parking to provide a better user experience and easier access for…
Read Article →Soon, Richton Park will upgrade their pay stations to allow the sale of parking permits to customers at the machines. This will help with upcoming village staffing…
Read Article →With the rehabilitation of their Metra station, New Lenox will be adding new technology to the lot, acquiring 8 new pay stations to be open by Thanksgiving in the…
Read Article →Starting this summer, Villa Park will be upgrading to license plate recognition technology. Moving from a pay-by-space method to pay-by-plate, improving ease of…
Read Article →The Medina Park District has decided to go with Total Parking to upgrade their system. Starting next week, their parking meter will be replaced with a Cale Web…
Read Article →Starting this year, Glencoe will use a CWT machine at their local Metra station. The installation at this station will create an easier transition from the car to…
Read Article →Starting in May, the city of Lake Geneva decided to upgrade their pay stations from pay-by-space to pay-by-plate. Total Parking Solutions has installed 50 of the…
Read Article →To kick off the new year, Forest Park has ordered the installation 34 CWT Stealth pay stations from TPS. Since January, implementing paid parking with these…
Read Article →In addition to the considerable amount of machines throughout Evanston, more continue to be added over the months to other areas which include more downtown…
Read Article →In the month of June, the village of Villa Park has ordered to upgrade their MPC machine models to CWT machines. The implementation of a pay-by-plate system and…
Read Article →By the end of June, Will County will have switched to a fully automated parking system, rather than the system currently in place with a physical agent to collect…
Read Article →Total Parking Solutions added another customer on the Metra system by way of a new Metra stop in Romeoville. The station currently has around one hundred twenty…
Read Article →In November 2017 the City of Joliet became the first Greater Chicagoland municipality to remove their on-street single space parking meters and place into operation…
Read Article →It didn't take Total Parking Solutions very long to convince the Village of Worth officials on what was needed to make the life easier for their commuters and…
Read Article →A parking operator has decided that the time has come to make the changeover from Digital to Cale. Over the past several decades, because the programming…
Read Article →The I.S.U. campus has joined the Cale multi-space family. Single space meters could no longer accommodate a student center lot with some serious parking turnover.…
Read Article →To simplify things for both the Park District and those who frequent Rosewood Beach, the Park District decided that a Cale CWT parking terminal. Patrons pay by…
Read Article →The Village of Bellwood Metra Station provides parking for less than 100 vehicles. But no matter how small, they are treated with the same as the Orland Parks,…
Read Article →Total Parking Solutions, Inc. and CPS Chicago Parking, LLC have completed a contract that will provide for complete refurbishment of 123 Cale parking terminals at…
Read Article →In 2015 the Village of Palatine had a consultant conduct an in depth parking study of their 1,000+ space parking system. A major overhaul was recommended to go from…
Read Article →The students from Adlai E. Stevenson High School were welcome to park at the Metra station parking lot; however, they needed to cross the Metra tracks to pay the…
Read Article →Another parking lot on the University of Illinois at Chicago campus has been switched from meters to pay stations. When the students return for the 2016 fall…
Read Article →Being next door to Oak Lawn, Chicago Ridge heard about their automated Cale parking system and thought they should look into it. Their honor boxes were old, both…
Read Article →Directly adjacent to the popular City Museum in downtown St. Louis, St. Louis Auto Park was seeking a way to add payment options and a lack of auditing capability.…
Read Article →After seeing the success of the Cale pay by plate application at the Aurora Transportation Center, the City went ahead and converted the larger Route 59 Metra…
Read Article →A brand new parking facility in downtown was needed to provide more parking for the burgeoning commercial district and the growing number of commuters. Two Cale CWT…
Read Article →Thanks to a Metra station rehab, the City of Lake Forest no longer will be unfolding dollar bills now that the honor boxes have been replaced at their second Metra…
Read Article →At the old stomping grounds of Al Capone (he may have even paid to park at the honor boxes we removed), Cicero have converted from manual to electronic with the…
Read Article →After an evaluation of bids in response to their RFP, Lombard selected Total Parking Solutions, Inc. to install four state of the art Cale CWT pay by space…
Read Article →Ten years ago, the Village of Riverside selected Total Parking Solutions, Inc. to replace their antiquated Parkeon pay station. Obviously, they were satisfied with…
Read Article →The Village of Buffalo Grove has contracted with Total Parking Solutions, Inc to install and maintain five CWT Cale parking terminals to replace their honor boxes.…
Read Article →The Village of Skokie will be removing their honor boxes and installing three Cale pay by space parking CWT terminals. The Village was extremely impressed with the…
Read Article →Village employees will no longer have to spend the time to go enforcing, collecting, repairing, and maintaining meter to meter at the Fairview Metra station. The…
Read Article →Aurora, Illinois will not only be installing Cale parking terminals in their Transportation Center this fall, but the terminals will operate as Pay by Plate,…
Read Article →TPS won the award for the installation of four pay by space terminals at the Village of Wilmette Metra station parking lot. The single space meters have been…
Read Article →Due to the satisfaction of the University parking staff and its' parking public, U.W.L. has decided to add two additional pay stations, bringing the total number on…
Read Article →The Kankakee Valley Park District manages and maintains three parking lots along the Kankakee River. The users and the K.V.P.D. have been frustrated by the constant…
Read Article →Sunshine Parking knew replacing the honor boxes in their South Loop parking lot was a foregone conclusion. To fill the bill, Total Parking Solutions, Inc installed…
Read Article →As part of a Metra station rehab project, the City of Des Plaines has added five pay by space Cale MPCXL pay stations to the two they already had in operation since…
Read Article →Since installing seven pay by space terminals in 2012, the City of South Haven has reaped the operational and financial benefits of an electronic parking payment…
Read Article →The City of Kenosha is discontinuing their cumbersome parking permit system and has selected Total Parking Solutions, Inc and Cale to replace it. Two Cale pay and…
Read Article →With the Belmont train underpass project now completed, which included expansion of its parking, the Village of Downers Grove saw it was necessary to add another…
Read Article →Brooklyn, Il., whose claim to fame is being the oldest town incorporated by African Americans in the U.S., called T.P.S. to ask for some help. Their "problem" is…
Read Article →After issuing an RFP to replace their parking pay terminals at their Metra station, the selection process was narrowed down to three finalists. After little…
Read Article →Due to the immediate success of the transition to Cale pay stations at their west parking lot, the Village of Cary has gone ahead and replaced the machines at their…
Read Article →Working to provide a more efficient and user friendly parking system for commuters at the Midlothian Metra station, the Village of Midlothian has decided to enter…
Read Article →When reading that their neighbor to the north, South Haven, decided to go with Total Parking Solutions, Inc to address their parking needs, the City of New Buffalo…
Read Article →The Village of Lake Bluff has chosen Total Parking Solutions, Inc to replace their antiquated pay and display machine at their Metra parking lot. The commuters will…
Read Article →The Village of Park Forest has chosen Total Parking Solutions, Inc. of Downers Grove to help them upgrade their existing parking system at the Metra commuter…
Read Article →Since Joe Smith and Tom Zawacki opened Total Parking Solutions, Inc on May 1st, 2005, the company has grown to a client list of over 50, with 300+ pay stations in…
Read Article →Through what was a rigorous RFP process, the City of Lake Forest has elected to go with Cale pay stations at the west Metra commuter lot. A total of four vendors…
Read Article →Several years ago, in an effort to make life easier for staff and their commuters, the Village of Cary went from honor boxes to electronic pay stations. Since then,…
Read Article →The Village of Libertyville has elected to upgrade the technology used at the Prairie View Metra train station for their daily parking patrons. The Village will…
Read Article →The City of Evanston, with cooperation from Total Parking Solutions, Inc , is conducting a sixty day trial for Pay and Display Parking. One solar powered Cale…
Read Article →In an effort to better accommodate commuter parking patrons at the Metra train station, the City of Waukegan has chosen to install 4 Cale Pay and display terminals…
Read Article →The City of Fontana, Wisconsin has added two more pay by space meters to their Cale multi-space meter inventory. Since the establishment of credit card acceptance…
Read Article →For the third year in a row, St. Joe is installing Cale pay and display terminals this spring. Two units are being installed in Lion's Park Beach along Lake…
Read Article →The Village of Hinsdale is converting its' West Hinsdale Metra station over from permit parking only to pay by space, with credit card acceptance only. The decision…
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Read Article →Barrington Patch 11/16/10 Ohio Parking located in downtown Chicago, was seeking a solution for revenue collection during non-attendant off hours operation. A…
Read Article →Total Parking Solutions, Inc starts out the new year by replacing four Parkeon pay stations with Cale terminals in the Village of Wheeling. Meters will accept cash…
Read Article →Due to the overwhelming success and positive feedback since the installation of the pay by space station in the Chicago St. parking lot, the City has decided to…
Read Article →When the Village of Oak Park reopened the Marion St. Mall to traffic and parking in November of 2007, they figured that it would be an excellent opportunity to put…
Read Article →The Village of Oak Lawn has expanded their Pay by Space parking system to include the main commuter parking facility at the Metra Train station. The decision to add…
Read Article →Metra (Chicago, IL), one of the largest and most successful commuter rail systems in the country, has awarded Total Parking Solutions, Inc of Downers Grove, IL an…
Read Article →Several years ago the City of St. Joseph, Michigan installed pay and display terminals at two of their waterfront parking lots. The application worked extremely…
Read Article →The Village of Riverside, Il. realized earlier this year that they were long overdue to replace their pay by space terminal at the train station. Not only had the…
Read Article →The Village of Oak Lawn, IL has installed a solar powered Cale multi-space meter into their North Metra commuter parking lot. The Pay by Space terminal will accept…
Read Article →To help alleviate the parking congestion near the County Courthouse, the City of Joliet opened a new parking lot on Chicago St. at Marion. However, rather than add…
Read Article →To coincide with the opening of the new 143rd St. Metra Station, the Village has decided that the timing was right to begin upgrading it's parking payment system…
Read Article →The Village of Richton Park, IL has selected to install Cale multi-space meters into their Metra commuter parking lot. The installation will consist of five Pay by…
Read Article →The Village of Forest Park has selected Total Parking Solutions, Inc to install Cale multi-space meters into their CTA commuter parking lot. The installation will…
Read Article →The City of Des Plaines has awarded Total Parking Solutions, Inc of Downers Grove, the parking fare meter contract for the Cumberland Avenue station. Total Parking…
Read Article →The City of West Chicago has awarded Total Parking Solutions, Inc of Downers Grove, the parking fare meter contract for the Metra commuter lot. Total Parking…
Read Article →The Village of New Lenox has elected to install an electronic parking fare system for the new Metra station located at Laraway and Cedar Roads. Total Parking…
Read Article →The City of Crystal Lake, IL has selected to install Cale multi-space meters into their Metra commuter parking lot. The installation will consist of fourteen Pay by…
Read Article →The City of Harvard, IL has selected to install Cale multi-space meters into their Metra commuter parking lot. The installation will consist of two Pay by Space…
Read Article →The City of Ypsilanti, MI has selected to install Cale multi-space meters into their downtown area parking lots. One community lot will be serviced by Pay by Space…
Read Article →In an effort to better manage the on-street parking issues in areas surrounding the University; UWO has selected through an RFP process Total Parking Solutions,…
Read Article →Over the coming months, the Village will be working with Metra to streamline the existing daily fee payment system for commuters. The Village has entered into a…
Read Article →Big Basin Marina Seeks Solutions Big Basin Marina in Channahon, Illinois operates on the DesPlaines River and it is located near many popular boating locales, both…
Read Article →Cale, USA Partners with Total Parking Solutions, Inc. in Midwest Cale Parking Systems, USA has agreed to partner with Total Parking Solutions, Inc in the upper…
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