Impark’s commitment to sustainability is not a recent, reactive measure but dates back to 2004 when we began using resource consumption, emissions, and recyclability as criteria to guide our business practices. To date, the following key initiatives have been implemented:
Despite a higher cost, we intentionally chose Smart cars as our primary service vehicle based on the manufacturer’s sustainability efforts, and its significantly reduced consumption of non-renewable resources. Since then, we have always ensured our service vehicles meet the highest environmental standards.
Impark was a founding member of the Green Parking Council (GPC), a non-profit organization that provided leadership and oversight of the green conversion of parking facilities to sustainable, environmentally responsible assets.
Impark remained a gold-level partner of GPC until 2016, when the organization was absorbed by the U.S. Green Building Council. Our sponsorship during this time helped to advance the development of the Green Garage Certification program, now known as Parksmart.
In one municipality, Impark outperformed other program participants by an average of 26 percent by expediting the activation of the majority of our charging stations by October 2017.
In May 2018, we began phasing out paper invoicing processes in favor of an ecofriendly alternative: e-billing.
Impark’s Go-Green Program included the development of 21 internal and external measures designed to reduce our consumption of non-renewable resources and promote awareness of consumption reduction and environmental impacts among our clients and consumers.
Impark’s carbon neutral certification included our sponsorship of an afforestation program. The program used over 2,500 trees to convert a brownfield site into an urban greenspace.
When the Green Parking Council was absorbed by USGBC, we transferred our membership to USGBC in order to continue building a more sustainable future.
The hangTag mobile parking app enables consumers to pay for parking digitally, greatly improving and simplifying the parker experience in an environmentally responsible manner.
As of May 2018, Impark has the largest number of Parksmart projects of any parking operator in the world!
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