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PARKING

Mall parking

transformation

– from Physical to Phygital

Founder & MD of a company bearing his name, Manoj K. Agarwal is
a business consultant with more than three decades of experience in

hospitality & shopping malls. In a discussion with TrafficInfraTech, Agarwal
shares his views on the developments in parking strategy in malls, the
challenges faced and advancements to expect in the future.

ational Earlier, the passengers in the car, then let the vehicle exit. This system,
there was physical allow it to pass. There would particular the paid ones, was
security in malls. be a ticket dispenser which vulnerable to manipulations
At the entry point, would cough out a ticket and not from the security angle but
there was scrutiny the vehicle would get parked from the fee collection one.
Ndone physically by as per availability of free lots. Remedial measures including
personnel who would open and During exit, the ticket would change of staff or the agency
check the boot of the vehicle be given to the cashier and itself imposed loss of valuable
and run a mirror scanner below post payment and checking, time, cost and effort on the
the bonnet. They would profile the boom barrier would rise to process.

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