29 August 2008
Basingstoke to adopt Parkmobile’s Cashless Parking by Mobile Phone -Basingstoke & Deane Council is launching Parkmobile’s advanced mobile phone parking solution to provide the motorists with an alternative method of paying for their parking charges in their pay & display car parks.
Whilst the traditional ‘pay and display’ parking still applies, motorists who park in the council’s pay & display car parks in Basingstoke could also pay for their parking using their mobile phone from 1st September 2008.
Parkmobile’s cashless parking by mobile phone offers motorists the luxury of parking without searching for coins, or predict how long they are going to park for. It only takes a short call to start and stop parking transactions from the comfort of a car.
The motorists can use their mobile phone to register and use the system instantly on arrival at a parking space. The enforcement is carried out using a GPRS enabled mobile phone to check the validity of the parking. The parking attendant enters the vehicle registration number on the device and reads the status of the parking transaction on the display.
Surveys show that the majority of the people who have used this service were impressed by its convenience and user-friendliness in addition to the system’s financial benefits of not overpay for parking or receiving penalty charge notices because they could not get back to their car quickly enough to top-up a pay and display machine.
For more information, please visit www.parkmobile.co.uk or contact:
Parkmobile, 020 3008 7053 or info@parkmobile.com.