Greater Toronto Airports Authority
About Greater Toronto Airport
As Toronto Pearson International Airport’s operator, the Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) is focused on growing Pearson as an international gateway. Its vision? To be “the best airport in the world” by providing consumers with reliable service and a welcoming atmosphere.
The Challenges
Prior to 2011, Pearson was in need of advanced parking technology that could keep up with the speed of its business. As Canada’s largest parking operation, hosting 50 million passengers a year, the airport requires a parking system that is reliable, secure, nimble and agile—ready to take on whatever comes its way, including a pandemic.
The Solutions
The GTAA prides itself in partnering with best-in-class organizations across the world to help set, meet and exceed the standards that come with being North America’s best airport for three years in a row.
In 2011, the GTAA’s in-house parking management team joined forces with Precise ParkLink to create a secure, reliable and seamless parking operation. To date, this system has allowed the GTAA to exceed its goals and establish a worldclass parking operation.
Precise ParkLink’s in-house research and development team has been an invaluable resource for the GTAA. They have engineered software solutions, such as employee parking management, validations, and EMV-certified contactless payment methods, and integrated them with the market’s most advanced technology, including licence plate recognition, gated parking systems, and electric vehicle charging stations.
Pearson’s parking operation is sustained using an advanced maintenance and technical support program, which ensures its parking technology is operational and secure at all times. The operation is also supported by a full suite of touchless solution options, allowing the GTAA to adapt its services to the new realities of pandemic influenced air travel.
The Results
Skidata gated parking technology
Licence plate recognition
Equipment maintenance and technical support
Parking.Logic
Secure revenue processing
Reservations
Park Assist integration
Validations
IPASS™ monthly permit software
DC Fast Ev charging stations
Final Words
“There are many tools we’ve employed that allow for more touchless and biometric journey that speeds up processes and allows people to go through the airport journey without having to touch different facilities. People have the opportunity to drive their car in using license plate recognition, use their phone for parking payments , or they can use our traditional payment methods as well... We’re nimble, we’re ready, we’re agile, we’re working with the best-in-class organizations across the world to help set standards, and also make sure that we are exceeding those standards as well.”
- Deborah Flint
President and CEO Greater Toronto
Airports Authority
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About Precise ParkLink
CANADA’S PARKING INDUSTRY LEADER FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS.
When Precise ParkLink was founded more than 30 years ago, the company was a two-person field operation with a simple aspiration: to make a difference in the world of parking automation.
Since then, Precise ParkLink has grown into a nation-wide managed services and technology firm with more than 700 employees across Canada, a head office in Toronto, and 13 supporting offices across the country.
But what sets us apart from other parking operators isn’t where we are, it’s what we are: a full-service parking solutions provider. One source for all your parking-related needs.
Precise ParkLink manages thousands of parking lots on behalf of hundreds of property owners. We supply cutting-edge technology and services to thousands of clients in the healthcare, municipal, commercial, institutional, and private sectors.
Being a vertically integrated company puts us in a unique position. We can provide a level of management and technical integration that is best-in-class. Just ask the hundreds of clients to whom we’ve delivered cost-effective and customer-focused solutions over the years.