ATLANTA - (Business Wire) The Georgia Tech Police Department (GTPD) and Parking and Transportation Department today announced they have joined forces to improve university towing management and simplify vehicle recovery through the Complied Logic Corporation (C:LOGIC) Georgia Towed Vehicle Locator Initiative.
“Sharing towing information between the Police Department, Parking and Transportation, and our contract towing operator will connect the dots between the time a car is towed to its subsequent recovery by the owner,” states Georgia Tech Police Chief Teresa Crocker. “With Georgia Tech’s participation in the Georgia Towed Vehicle Locator Initiative, students, faculty and Georgia Tech visitors will have a single place (www.ga.towedcar.com) to search for a missing vehicle regardless of who and where it was towed in the Greater Atlanta Metropolitan Area.”
The partnership leverages C:LOGIC’s Vehicle Information-sharing and Notification Service (VINS), delivering a comprehensive Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that streamlines dispatching and towing operations, enabling electronic information sharing among area Law Enforcement, the Towing and Storage Industry and the general public.
VINS-enabled communication between the university departments and their contract tower, A TOW, will lower GTPD officer workload by eliminating paper towing reports and automating wrecker dispatch. VINS also enables vehicle owners to locate a towed vehicle through a searchable public web site. VINS linkage with university parking and Georgia Department of Revenue (DOR) IT systems will also facilitate the collection of outstanding parking tickets and automate the retrieval of owner and lien holder information necessary to comply with state notification requirements.
“Through our strong partnership with Police Department and A TOW, we are excited about providing this expanded service,” states David Santa Ana, Associate Director, Georgia Tech Parking and Transportation. “We see this initiative as a way for the university to lower the resources involved in notifying towed-car owners and collecting outstanding parking fines, refocusing them toward delivery of new and expanded parking services.”
The Georgia Towed Vehicle Locator Initiative connects the dots and enables disparate law enforcement agencies to easily locate vehicles that have been towed in neighboring jurisdictions, dramatically lowering the number of erroneous stolen vehicle reports, as well as the time required to locate a missing vehicle.
“We are pleased to partner with the University and C:LOGIC in this initiative,” states S. Page Porter, CEO of ATOW. “Linking Georgia Tech with the other communities we serve is another step in delivering a single place for citizens across the Atlanta Metropolitan Area to go when trying to locate a towed or missing vehicle.”
About Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the nation's premier research universities. Ranked seventh among U.S. News & World Report's top public universities, Georgia Tech's more than 19,000 students are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Management and Sciences. Tech is among the nation's top producers of women and African-American engineers. The Institute offers research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students and is home to more than 100 interdisciplinary units plus the Georgia Tech Research Institute.
About A Tow, Inc.
A Tow, Inc. is a family owned and operated towing company that has been offering quality towing, recovery, roadside and relocation services to the Metro Atlanta, Fulton County and its surrounding areas, with friendly, professional 24-hour service, for over 46 years. A Tow, Inc. contracts with various Governmental and Police Agencies, motor clubs, garages, dealerships, property management and associations, as well as, the individual who calls directly. A Tow has more combined experience than any other in the State allowing a completion of more than one million vehicles towed and counting. For more information, please contact us at 404-577-8950 or visit www.atow-inc.com.
About Compiled Logic
C:LOGIC provides Vehicle Information-Sharing and Notification Services to people impacted by towing issues, including law enforcement agencies; state and local municipalities; the towing and storage, automotive, and insurance industries; and private citizens. As the leader in Towing Lifecycle Management solutions, C:LOGIC’s multi-jurisdictional solutions are used by major US metropolitan areas such as Houston, Atlanta, and Albuquerque to provide the least disruptive, lowest risk answer to lowering towing management costs, providing effective industry compliance oversight, and helping citizens locate missing or stolen vehicles. For more information, please contact us at 888-876-VINS (8476) or visit www.compiledlogic.com.
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