November 15, 2005
British towns provide a new way to pay for parking
Some cities in Britain have made it easier to pay for parking. You just call a number displayed on the parking meter using your mobile phone, enter the unique number on the meter, and the toll is charged directly to your credit card.
"The system recognizes your mobile number so that you don’t have to use a PIN number or enter credit card information each time you park. You must set up an account first in order to use the system. Once you have made the call, the meter is alerted and asks you how much time you want before printing out a ticket for your dash."
reBlogged from MobileMag
Related Meterless parking services from around the world:
-- Meterless parking on trial - New Zealand's "Phone2Park" system, developed by Parking Solutions, will automatically debit a customer's pre-paid mobile phone account when they send a text to a shortcode, removing the need for parking meters or pay and display machines.
-- LA to test parking meters with SMS and credit-card payments - A new smart parking meter system is being tested in Los Angeles which allows ATM-style meters to accept cash, debit, and credit cards. It can also use SMS to send a message to your cellphone when the meter is about to expire.
-- Florida City Tests m-Parking meters - The automated system allows drivers who subscribe to simply dial in from their cell phone, punch in the number assigned to their parking spot, and the required costs — plus a 25-cent usage fee — will be billed to their credit card. When leaving, subscribers call back and end the billing cycle.
-- UC gets m-parking - The University of California-Santa Barbara with help from IBM, overhauled its parking system, enabling mobile users to pay for their parking meters with their cell phones. (February 2005)
-- Sun-powered parking meters for city - Solar-powered parking meters capable of accepting credit cards and payment via mobile phone are to be installed in central Sydney. (February 2005)
-- M-Parking in Vienna The Austrian capital has just completed its first year of allowing residents to pay for any of its 126,000 short-term parking spaces by mobile phone, under what it calls its M-Parking system (October 2004).
-- Parking Fees to Be Paid by SMS -Sofia municipality (Bulgaria) will introduce a new "Pay and display" parking fee system (October 2004)
-- Austrians purchase car-parking tickets by mobile phones - About 50,000 drivers are now purchasing their car-parking tickets by mobile phone and SMS in Vienna and five other cities in Austria. "M-parking" was introduced a year ago by German IT services provider Siemens Business Services and mobile operator Mobilkom. (October 2004) Austria.
-- mParking - The first scheme in the UK which allows drivers to pay for parking by mobile phone has been launched in Scotland (October 2003).
-- Sydney Council today launched its new mobile phone payment parking system, which not only allows motorists to pay for metered parking using their mobile phone - but also lets them know via SMS that their meter is due to expire. (March 19, 2004)
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