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This article is about the machine. For the sitcom see Pay And Display (TV series).

Pay and display ticket machine, Bristol City centre

Pay and display principles

Pay and display machines are a subset of ticket machines used for regulating parking in urban areas or in car parks. It relies on a customer purchasing a ticket from a machine and displaying the ticket on the dashboard, or windscreen or passenger window of the vehicle.

Pay and display systems differ from road-side parking meters in that one machine can service 100 or more vehicle spaces and the set up costs are thus much lower. In addition, this system prevents drivers from taking advantage of parking meters that have time remaining - this factor alone has doubled parking revenues in cities that have switched to pay and display.[1] In addition, pay and display machines can also accept a wider variety of coins, and many even accept credit cards, making it unnecessary for drivers to carry large amounts of change. The use of credit cards has another advantage - the machines do not have to be emptied of coins as often, and the costs of counting coin and possible pilfering by employees who empty the parking meters also reduces their overall costs. Recently developed as a complementary payment method is payment by mobile phone. For example TxT A Park[2] The TXT-a-Park system enables Parking fees to be charged to Customers’ Monthly Mobile Phone Bills, and in the case of prepaid phones, the parking fee is simply deducted. RingGo is another similar phone based service. See also Mobile Payments.

In the UK pay and display is used for both on-street parking control and parking in car parks and multi-storey car parks where access barrier systems are not installed.

Tickets

A pay and display ticket from Parks Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. Issued by a Reino pay and display machine.

Details included on a printed ticket are generally the location and operator of the machine, expiry time, fee paid and time entered.

Coupon parking

Coupons used for parking in Singapore

Coupon parking is a variation of parking payment. It is similar to the pay and display mechanism without the use of machines; the motorist is to purchase a booklet of coupons in advance from the authorities instead.

Set up costs are lower than those for parking meters, but its effectiveness is solely determined by the ability to enforce the system by parking attendants. The system is widely used in Singapore, and in parts of some countries such as New Zealand, Malaysia, Austria and Israel.

To use a parking coupon, the motorist has to completely tear off tabs of the date and time, or scratch off pannels on the date and time in which he/she leaves the vehicle. The coupon is then displayed at the dashboard. Multiple coupons are used if the parking time exceeds the allowance given for a single coupon, though this is not always permitted.

Stelio pay & display machine

See also

OMG YOU HAVE TO CLICK HERE SERIOUSLY YOU HAVE TO CLICK HERE I MEAN IF YOU DON'T CLICK HERE YOU WILL LIE TO REGRET IT AND I WILL TRACK YOU AND HUNT YOU DOWN], New Straits Times, 27 January 2007

References

  1. ^ Toronto reaps bifg profit in parking - www.preciseparklink.com
  2. ^ TXT-a-Park Payment for Pay & Display Parking Meters - www.chsglobal.com
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