Plans included adding two surface parking locations to serve the new terminal. Ensuring the parking areas are reserved for passengers’ required parking gates, dynamic signs, as well as revenue and access-control systems. From the planning phases, the Port had a vision for technological efficiencies and integrations for the access and revenue control systems to be used for parking associated with the new terminal.

The Amano One Parking Access and Revenue Control System (PARCS) includes an integrated and streamlined parking purchase process for cruise passengers working with the Port’s reservation system (ResPort). The system efficiencies include an integration that allows cruise passengers to purchase parking at the time of their cruise reservation, providing passengers the ability to provide license plate numbers, and/or receive a barcode validation to use to enter and exit an assigned parking location(s). It was very important to provide customers with multiple options for accessing the parking locations, to minimize any entering delays and customer frustration while maximizing system efficiency.

Another key aspect of the installed system’s performance is improving communications with customers as they drive to/from their parking locations as well as when they are in the parking lanes. To achieve this the parking system actively communicates the daily lists of scheduled cruise departures, their associated assigned parking locations, local weather, and the current parking availability in different locations through a dynamic integration with a fully programmable large (50” x 50”) roadway message display positioned at the central access point to the Terminal as well as fully programmable location signs at each entrance to the parking areas. ◆