Green Parking Award

Sponsored by: HUB Parking Technology

This new category recognises the many ways in which parking policy, design and management practice can help improve the quality of the environment. 

The criteria:

The Green Parking category encompasses the building and operation of both on-street and off-street parking.

Schemes and projects could be:

• Park & ride schemes

• Cycle parking projects

• Electric vehicle charging and vehicle-to-grid schemes

• The use of solar power and wind energy systems

• Energy management projects

• Clean Air Zones, Low Emission Zones, emissions-based tariff schemes, engine-idling campaigns

• The use of electric and low emission patrol and public service vehicles

• Green walls, sustainable urban drainage schemes, etc.

• Ethically sourced products

• Carbon offset projects.

The entry should cover:

• Description of the solution, system or policy 

• The extent to which the solution, system or policy has achieved its aims

• Deliverability of the solution or policy (including the practicalities and affordability of the concept, system or service)

• The reasons why your organisation decided to adopt a 'green' approach approach to designing, building or delivering parking services

• How you have benchmarked the environmentally-friendliness of the measures you are implemening

• The individual or team responsible for delivering the solution

• The development and implementation process

• The degree of partnership with other interested bodies (clients, government, industry, public bodies, peers within parking, etc)

• Evidence of successful implementation and user feedback (case studies)

• How are the 'green' credentials of the solution, system or policy measured or certificatied

• Ways in which the solution has been/can be applied in the wider parking sector.

Please supply:

1. Images

2. Customer and client feedback/testimonials

3. Press cuttings/Links to websites

4. Details of other awards won.