The Texas Parking & Transportation Association: parking. mobility. connected.
Since 1987, the Texas Parking & Transportation Association has been a vehicle for individuals engaged with the parking and transportation businesses in municipalities, hospitals, airports, universities, and parking authorities. We promote the mutual interests of the membership in the provision and operation of adequate, safe, efficient, convenient and economical public parking and transportation as a proper and necessary function for the economic and social well-being of our members.
TPTA works hard to educate its members and their customers about the -importance and impact of parking and transportation in general and promote industry best practices. TPTA’s vision: parking. mobility. connected. We are a dedicated organization that engages in relationship building, information sharing and business growth.
In 2019 TPTA developed a new logo for our new vision. The following sums up our key priorities and on-going objectives. We continue to build on these platforms, enhancing our association and our membership benefits.
- Expand Membership. Expand regular membership by 30 percent in the next two years within Texas and surrounding state through personal engagement and professional marketing.
- Enhance the Annual Conference. Review the pricing structure, expand conference offerings, and create a marketing strategy to target all parking and transportation professionals in Texas and surrounding states.
- Enhance Outreach and Communications. Improve member outreach and communications by connecting members and vendors, establish member volunteer committees, launch annual formal engagement survey, and formalize membership communications vehicles.
- Enhance Roundtable Program. Enhance the roundtable program by instituting social/networking events in conjunction with the roundtables, identifying topics that appeal to different facets of parking and transportation and creating a volunteer committee.
This year we added a new position to our association. We hired Dawn Marti as our association and events manager—please help us welcome her to our team.
2021 Conference and Tradeshow
For 2021, the TPTA Conference and Tradeshow was at the Kalahari Resorts and Conventions in Round Rock, Texas. This year’s conference was met with excitement and some apprehension as it had been two years since our last conference in 2019 due to the COVID pandemic, which cancelled our 2020 Dallas conference. The promise of a face-to-face conference brought out 140 attendees who were grateful for a personal interaction instead of our normal virtual calls and meetings. This year’s events included competition games of “Name that Parking Tune,” with 15 winners of various tunes, and the “Ultimate Corn Hole Match Up”, which seemed to be the favorite with Matthew Valera and Dylan Prep, PGS team hanging in there for the big win.
In the spirit of giving, our attendees came through bidding on the silent auction items such as a UT-Austin Bevo Print and signed football, a Baylor signed basketball, a four-pack of Ranger tickets with parking pass plus sevral baskets. All in all, we raised almost $3,000 which was donated directly to two local charities, Austin Sunshine Camps and The Refuge for DMST. Thanks again to everyone who made a donation and who won the silent auction items.
The networking and educational sessions, as always, were a big draw and of course the pandemic discussions were at the top of the list on how cities and entities were recovering as well as new curb management strategies, business and personal strategic development along with the future expectation of electric charging, mobility at large, smart cities, and sustainable parking, just to name a few. TPTA would like to thank all our presenters, sponsors and vendors for their generosity and support of our association and conferences. Without their backing, we as an association would cease to be able to provide the beneficial assistance that we have offered over the years. We thank all our members for their support of the 2021 Conference and Tradeshow. As we missed many of you, we hope to see you soon at our April 2022 Conference and Tradeshow in San Antonio, Texas.
2021 Awards
- Distinguished Service Award: Bob Hall, President of BP Equipment
- Employee of the Year: No Nominees
- Parking Structure-New: University of Houston’s Gateway Garage and Walter P. Moore
- Parking Program: WinPark’s Four Oaks Project
- Parking Equipment and Technology: WGI-City of Grapevine
2021 Roundtables and Networking Sessions
Our 2021-2022 Roundtables and Networking Sessions have been postponed until further notice but our Board Member, Jaime Snyder, CAPP, has picked up the tasks of our monthly Let’s Do Lunch series, where we have a different moderator and topic each month. We held three separate IPMI training sessions during the 2021 year with Cindy Campbell during our LDL series, which was a hit of course. We want to thank sponsors Walter P Moore, Cardinal Tracking, Inc., and Flash for their support of the sessions that Cindy provided: “Developing Workplace Resilience”, “When the Old Script Doesn’t Work…”, and “Team Dynamics and their effect on Organizational Agility”. Please note, if you have a topic you would like to discuss or if you would like to provide support and sponsor a Let’s Do Lunch session, please email Jaime. ◆
