Since 2004, Tannery Creek Systems and autoChalk have earned recognition from transportation engineering institutes, parking industry associations, and business organizations for advancing the state of the art in parking enforcement technology.
CPA Ted Seeberg Memorial Award
Tannery Creek founder Bill Franklin, P.Eng. received the Canadian Parking Association's Ted Seeberg Memorial Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Canadian Parking and Mobility Industry — the association's most prestigious individual honour.
The award recognizes Bill's role as the visionary behind autoChalk — the world's first digital chalking solution — and his two decades of leadership transforming how municipalities, universities, hospitals, airports, and private operators manage parking enforcement across North America. Beyond product innovation, Bill has been an active contributor through the CPA, the International Parking & Mobility Institute, and numerous industry forums, consistently championing knowledge-sharing, collaboration, and continuous improvement across the profession.
Business Achievement Award — Innovation in Technology
Tannery Creek Systems was recognized by the Vaughan Chamber of Commerce with their Business Achievement Award for Innovation in Production of Technological Advancement.
The award celebrated Tannery Creek's growth and impact in the parking enforcement technology industry, recognizing the company's engineering-driven approach and expanding client base across North America.
IPI Award of Excellence — Honorable Mention
The International Parking & Mobility Institute recognized the Calgary ParkPlus program with an Award of Excellence, with autoChalk as a critical core component scanning thousands of vehicles daily. The ParkPlus system was the first pay-by-plate parking program in Canada, and autoChalk's enforcement technology was essential to making it work at scale.
ITE Parking Council Best Practices Award
The Institute of Transportation Engineers awarded their Parking Council Best Practices Award to the Calgary ParkPlus system — the first pay-by-plate parking system in Canada — powered by Tannery Creek's autoChalk enforcement technology. The award recognized ParkPlus as a model for modern, technology-driven parking management.
VML Achievement Award
The City of Fredericksburg, Virginia received the Virginia Municipal League Achievement Award for their innovative use of autoChalk's digital chalking system and warning/escalating fines program — a first-of-its-kind approach to graduated parking enforcement that replaced traditional tire chalking with ALPR technology.
