Over three years, LKP “Lvivavtodor” as an operator has multiplied the income from the provision of parking services by almost 2.5 times. How it was possible to optimize the work and achieve such stunning results – told LKP “Lvivavtodor”.
Active work in this direction began in August 2021 by order of the mayor of Lviv, when Mykola Vlasyuk headed LKP “Lvivavtodor”. Among other tasks of the mayor, the new manager is tasked with making parking services as transparent, efficient and profitable as possible.
Thanks to a well-thought-out, step-by-step work strategy, Lvivavtodor LKP has made a quantum leap in increasing revenues from parking services in recent years. In particular, in 2020, the amount of revenues amounted to UAH 19.1 million, in 2021 – from August, the first 4 steps to implement the mayor’s mandate begin to be implemented, the result at the end of the year – UAH 30.3 million, in 2022 – the company receives a record 46, 3 million hryvnias.
“That is, with virtually the same number of parking lots as in previous years (after all, 21 new parking lots began to be launched already in November-December 2022, having previously abandoned several unprofitable parking lots), as it turns out, it is possible to optimize work in this way in a specific direction, that the company receives an additional 38 million hryvnias for a year and 4 months, having the same resource. And this reduces the burden on the city budget by UAH 38 million, and UAH 38 million more can be spent on the country’s defense,” Lvivavtodor LKP noted.
In addition, LKP “Lvivavtodor” explained what steps were taken to more than double the company’s revenue from the provision of parking services:
Optimization of the work of the parking department. After the analysis, the department was restructured, powers were demarcated, distribution and strengthening of work areas in the following areas:
- 24-hour platforms V. Kalnichenko
- 24-hour sites O. Berezka
- economic safety of parking R. Yaremiy
- the parking department is headed by L. Svistun.
- Expansion of the automated parking payment control system. Licenses and equipment for comprehensive control of parking fees are purchased. Having become interested in the possibilities of ASKOP, one of the active private operators of parking lots – LLC “MiK” joins the implementation of parking payment control in its economic activity together with LKP “Lvivavtodor”. Full-fledged work of ASKOP allows to move to the next stage. The company is starting to implement automation as much as possible in its activities as a parking lot operator.
- Audit of all beneficiaries. Refusal of resident paper cards and paper parking permits (passes).
Practically simultaneously with the launch of the full-fledged work of ASKOP and the launch of the pilot project “Discipline of Payments”, work on combating economic abuses began:
- Attention was drawn to the “Resident’s Card” preferential tariff mechanism – the essence of this mechanism was that the resident’s preferential tariff was entered on a smart card, its owner had the opportunity to use the preferential tariff in the parking lot near his house at the registration address. At the same time, there were massively recorded cases when residents used their resident’s card to take advantage of the preferential rate available at all parking lots without exception. The business asks residents to turn in cards to renew their validity and discovers that nearly 10 times more resident cards have been turned in than the business has on file. Taking into account this fact, the mechanism of action of the resident’s preferential tariff is canceled, a system of electronic subscriptions is introduced with entry into the ASKOP system, a resident’s preferential tariff is introduced for residents, based on it – a resident’s preferential subscription, where the cost of an hour of parking costs only 88 kopecks, provided that a six-month subscription is purchased.
- One-time paper passes were cancelled, having discovered that on some days at the exit from specially equipped parking lots, up to several dozen paper passes were recorded.
- After analyzing the payment for repair works, the company decided to cut off the maintenance of parking lots by “sticky contractors”. The equipment did not work worse, and maintenance and repair costs were significantly reduced.
- A number of meetings and negotiations were held, the result of which was a reduction in the interest rates for payment of parking services. Significant savings for the enterprise in the long term.
- Control over the operation of specially equipped parking lots has been strengthened.
“The implementation of powerful measures to combat economic abuses also gives a somewhat unexpected result – several employees are dismissed from the company, and in thematic groups of the social network Facebook, which are thematic for the life of the city, newly created accounts are beginning to abound, which generate interesting posts, which give interesting conclusions for improving activities. But the work continues, and after measures to combat economic abuses, the next stage begins,” Lvivavtodor LKP explains.