Parking In Motion

Parking In Motion (PIM)
URL parkinginmotion.com
Slogan "a smarter way to park"
Launched 2008
Alexa rank 1,011,311[1]
Current status Online

Parking In Motion (PIM) is a parking technology company based in Santa Monica, California. Parking In Motion was founded by Sam Friedman (Current CEO) and Alexander Israel (Current COO) in 2008.

PIM is a provider of dynamic and real time parking data[2], which holds partnerships with app developers, map makers, and GPS navigation companies. PIM operates a database containing over 20,000 public parking lots[2][3][4] in over 300 cities[3][4]. These lots cover the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia[3][4].

iPhone App

PIM's consumer product is an iPhone app, released on April 14, 2011[5]. It allows users to access the PIM database mobily as well as reserve and prepay for parking through affiliates[6][7][8].













QR Code

In May 2011, Parking In Motion debuted its QR Code campaign at the International Parking Institute (IPI) conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in its effort to "make parking fun"[9]. The campaign utilizes Mobile tagging to try to encourage drivers to use PIM's services and associated lots.

Notes

  1. ^ "Statistics from Alexa". Alexa Internet. http://alexa.com/siteinfo/parkinginmotion.com. Retrieved 2011-06-27. 
  2. ^ a b http://www.parkinginmotion.com
  3. ^ a b c http://news.cnet.com/8301-19882_3-20049889-250.html
  4. ^ a b c http://www.businessinsider.com/parking-made-easy-with-parking-in-motion-iphone-app-2011-5
  5. ^ http://blog.parkinginmotion.com/2011/04/14/parking-in-motion-iphone-app-launch/
  6. ^ http://lalawag.com/2011/02/08/find-and-reserve-parking-in-real-time-for-free-with-parking-in-motion-on-iphone/
  7. ^ http://www.baristanet.com/2011/06/montclairs-smart-parking-is-fully-operational/
  8. ^ http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/26/travel/la-tr-roadtripapps-20110626
  9. ^ http://www.parkinginmotion.com/sticker