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No change, no problem with smart card enabled parking meters

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Solutions like that from Parcxmart can save municipalities money and increase customer convenience

Since the conception of the on-street single-space parking meter in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma by Carl C. Magee in 1935, people have been reaching deeper into their pockets to feed the meter. But in a world where non-cash payments have become the norm, many believe the time has come for parking meters to dispense with the coins. There are nearly 500 million in the United States alone, so the challenge is great but so too is the opportunity. If every parking meter in the U.S. collected just $2 per day, the gross revenues for a single day would reach a staggering $1 billion.

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Parkmobile USA has announced that its mobile payments solution is now available on all parking meters throughout Oakland, Calif.

Oakland drivers can now pay for parking with their mobile phone using the Parkmobile app on iPhone, Android, Windows 7, and Blackberry smart phones anywhere in the city. Users can also pay for parking by tapping their NFC phone against a Parkmobile NFC-enabled sticker on the meter.

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PayByPhone has announced that the city of Ottawa is now offering an NFC payments option on parking meters.

According to PayByPhone, every Pay & Display machine in Ottawa has been outfitted with an NFC-enabled PayByPhone sticker, which users can tap with an NFC phone to set up and pay for parking time.

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First Data Corporation has partnered up with the Krakow Transportation and Infrastructure Authority and City Parking Group for the introduction of parking meters equipped with contactless payments functionality in the city of Krakow, Poland.

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The Canadian Parking Association has announced that the city of Ottowa, Canada is planning to upgrade its parking meters with NFC technology.

Starting early 2012, drivers will be able to pay for their parking fees with just a tap of an NFC enabled handset against the meter. The new system will also allow users to refresh their parking time via phone or Internet, rather than having to dash out to the meter.

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The city of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England has partnered with PayByPhone to introduce the UK’s first NFC-enabled parking payment solution.

Installed this past weekend, the new system enables drivers in all of Tumbridge Wells’ 15 council-run parking lots to pay for their parking fees with a tap of an NFC-enabled Android or BlackBerry phone equipped with the PayByPhone app.

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MacKay Meters announced that it has partnered with Uniform Industrial Corporation (UIC) to provide the first single-space wireless parking meter capable of contactless and NFC payments.

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