How can parking management for corporate travel be improved?

ALEX GIL, Chief Operating Officer, ICAROUS MOBILITY BOOKINGS SYSTEM

At present, parking costs are freely available to business travelers. They themselves choose in which parking lot to leave the car and at what rate, which causes high costs, both economic and administrative, for the company, without any type of prior control and, in some cases, not even afterwards.

To this complicated situation we must add the increase of services of valet parking valet parking or parking with chófer. These are services in which the car is picked up at the door of the station or terminal and returned at the same door on the day of return. Some of them are unreliable and represent a risk for the business traveler and for your vehicle.

There are parking reservation management websites, as well as room reservation websites, which offer us the option of choosing the service that best suits our needs, with a wide range of options;s adapts to our needs, with all the information of the same, recommendations and opinions of other users, guaranteeing a minimum price and with the option to make the payment from the same platform, so you do not have to waste time at the exit of the parking.


In addition to these advantages, they allow us to self-book, to have all the parking stays in a single invoice, eliminating the collection of tickets and transferring them to the parking stations;

These platforms are already available in large travel agencies and in the most advanced companies, which know that, thanks to technology, they can improve the business traveler's experience, reducing costs, since these platforms do not involve any expense for the company or agency, and improving service. In fact, most of these platforms have a call center and a permanent technical service.


As we all know, technology is providing us with more information and more options where we can choose when planning our trip. Thanks to these platforms, it is also possible to do so in a segment as seemingly immaculate as parking. What is allowing companies that bet on these tools is to improve the mobility of their employees (sometimes 20% of the total cost of the trip) and to have a total control of this item.

Mobile travel.