Pay-by-phone parking

Mobile parking or m-parking (of English. Mobile parking), offers the possibility of using a mobile phone to pay the parking fee cash without having to use a ticket machine.

• 3.2.1 M-Parking/Handy-Parken
• 3.2.2 Common platform competition
• 3.2.3 Mobile Parking (formerly, Pioneer )

Technical implementation

In order to enable mobile parking, each municipality must appoint an operator to provide the necessary infrastructure. The user enters into a contract with the operator, who then parking fees settles with the client and then paid to the municipality.

To start a park process calls the user to the operator or send an SMS with the individual identification of the parking lot. Thus, the park begins. To exit the parking process, the user must call the operator or write another SMS and write off so again. In order to verify the payment, the control force has access to the database of operators. This access can be via GPRS or UMTS enabled mobile devices such as a cellular phone is realized.

Pros and Cons

Benefits for the park ends are primarily:

• There is a minute billing.
• It eliminates the path to the vending machine to buy a ticket, and back to the car.
• The park has to end, depending on the system, do not set already beginning to park on the parking time.
• One must not have exact change available.

Disadvantages are:

• In some systems, you have to register once more in advance.
• Parking can be expensive due to the costs incurred SMS costs.
• If the cancellation when returning to the vehicle forgotten, the parking fees up to an automatic system shutdown must be (usually the end of the chargeable period of the parking zone ) paid.

Distribution of mobile phone parking systems

Germany

In Germany, in more than 100 cities cashless parking available (as of December 2009 54 municipalities)

Systems with registration

Payment systems that require registration can be found in, among other things:

• Augsburg
• Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
• Bad Oldesloe
• Bayreuth
• Burglengenfeld
• Berlin
• Bingen
• Celle
• Darmstadt
• Duisburg

• Flensburg
• Gunzburg
• Hamburg
• Hanau
• Hanover
• Heidenheim
• Cologne
• Leverkusen
• Lubeck
• Mainz

• Mönchengladbach
• Bad Münstereifel
• Neustadt on the Wine Route
• Osnabrück
• Paderborn
• Saarbrucken
• Wiesbaden
• Wolfsburg

Free registration systems

In this system, a virtual parking ticket is drawn, that is, the parking time is selected at time of booking. Therefore Logging out is not necessary. Users of the registration -free system:

• Alzey
• Amberg
• Andernach
• Arnsberg
• Bad Aibling
• Bad Kissingen
• Bad Neustadt an der Saale
• Bernau am Chiemsee
• Bottrop
• Coburg

• Dahme
• Dieburg
• Eisenach
• Emden
• Gain
• Fraport
• Fürth
• Grömitz
• Gunzenhausen
• Hann. flow

• Horb am Neckar
• Ilmenau
• Kassel
• Kellenhusen
• Mauth
• Meppen
• Mettmann
• Naumburg ( Saale)
• Neustadt in Holstein
• Nuremberg

• Oberhof
• Oberstdorf
• Paderborn
• Rudolstadt
• Sigmaringen
• Sonnenberg
• Weilheim
• Witzenhausen
• Purpose Association Altmuehlsee

• No prior notification
• No disclosure of personal information except mobile phone number and license plate number
• Free reminder SMS
• To purchase tickets from any location and to extend
• No change required

• For beginners, complex entries by SMS
• Parking fee is posted just like parking ticket in advance, paid parking time can not be reversed or stopped before
• Cost of a SMS when any parking operation, regardless of booked assets or " flat rates "

Austria

In the fall of 2002, the first pilot farms began in Austria and since the autumn of 2003, this possibility in some cities regularly. The systems are not uniform. It is believed also quite different from the population of individual municipalities. The comparison of the same systems of Linz ( 2008) and Graz ( until 2009 but more use than in Linz ) shows that especially at the beginning, the population must be informed with some advertising expenses.

M-Parking/Handy-Parken

Mobile parking ( www.handyparken.at, formerly www.m- parking.at ) is the m-parking deployment, operation and service GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of Porr ( PORR Solutions real estate and infrastructure projects GmbH). The technical implementation is carried out by Siemens Business Services (SBS). The SMS connection, the payment and the website were performed by Mobilkom Austria, since the merger in 2010 from A1 Telekom Austria.

In the provinces, the system is operated by the M- Parking GmbH. Payment will be made with mobile phones of Mobilkom Austria, Orange Austria, and a little later since the fall of 2008, T-Mobile Austria and Tele.ring without signup about paybox with the cell phone bill (A1) or by direct debit. Other phone customers must register with either paybox or you buy a A1 bank voucher, electronic money, which is credited by online bank transfer to a specified phone number.

In the federal capital Vienna, the system is operated by the City of Vienna. After registration, you have to recharge, a park credit. Payment can be made via paybox as in the provinces, where the charge can be done via SMS, as well as debit and credit card. In Vienna also an advanced booking with the time indication is possible, for example if you want to sleep longer in the morning ( parking duration and time are simply separated by empty step, for example: . '60 0901 ').

The system through SMS messages is controlled where they still indicating at least the duration of parking and in some cities, a code for a zone. Does the city or the license plate not the specified preferences, you can specify this information along. The booking is valid when a confirmation SMS is received. It is advisable to keep some time in the event of any complaints. Inadvertent payments in the times without parking management are not recognized and therefore charged. In addition to the parking fee each SMS fee is charged by the mobile operator. The control authorities give the flag into a handheld computer and can check whether such a parking fee has been paid. This is not the case, at least be issued in Vienna via a connected Bluetooth thermal printer equal to the ticket.

This system can solve a parking ticket for their customers and businessmen via SMS. In the " middle - shopping -in- Wels " partners, these costs are divided city marketing and merchants. About one- third of drivers do not know their mark and have to go look. In Vienna there was in March 2009, around 300,000 registered participants and for the first time more than one million parking processes on the system.

Participating cities are (starting date):

• Vienna (Pilot operation: the fall of 2002, real operation: October 1, 2003)
• Bregenz ( 1 October 2004)
• Eisenstadt
• Gleisdorf (15 September 2003)
• Gmunden ( 15 October 2007)
• Klagenfurt
• Mödling (November 2003)
• Perchtoldsdorf
• Spittal an der Drau
• Stockerau (26 October 2003)
• St. Pölten (1 November 2004)
• Villach
• Wels ( April 2005)
• Wolfsberg
• Krems (test mode until April 2008)

M -Parking took over in late 2004 the competitors Mobile Parking. It should be merged originally the systems. 2006, the contracts were terminated with the municipalities with effect from 2007 and they could change with additional investment, which has made no church.

Common platform competition

On the competition platform mobile parking ( www.mobil - parken.at ) are currently four active providers. (Mobile numbers from Augsburg, Mobile City of Saarbrücken, Park & More from Leibnitz, Traffic pass from Vienna ). Users need to register beforehand and get a vignette for marking. The parking procedure can be initiated in all means call where mobile numbers and Park & More. Well as via SMS and mobile browsers Mobile Numbers, Mobile City and traffic pass also offer an iPhone app.

Participating cities are (starting date):

• Baden (1 November 2011)
• Bludenz (1 March 2011 )
• Graz (13 October 2009)
• Krems ( 1 March 2011)
• Linz ( 1 November 2008)
• Salzburg ( 1 October 2011)
• Zell am See ( 1 January 2012)

Linz has run no ads and hence there is the system with 1,220 registered and 1,375 paid parking operations in January 2010 ( from an average of 457,000 per month) been a flop. In Graz, compared with around 3,000 motorists are in the same period have been registered and there were 8,172 parking operations ( from an average of 565,000 per month) has been handled by the system. And the opposite Linz smaller catfish has in June 2010 already 5,000 registered users and an average of 5,500 outstanding parking operations.

Mobile Parking (formerly, Pioneer )

The company Mobile Parking GmbH (FN 223782 t, Commercial Court of Vienna, formerly: www.mobile- parking.at ( off) old company info: www.mobile- parking.ch ) started at Tech Gate Vienna. On 28 November 2003, the company received a Mercur award from the Vienna Chamber of Commerce. The end of 2004 bought the M- Parking GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of Porr ( Porr Solutions real estate and infrastructure projects GmbH) and partner of Siemens Business Services and Mobilkom Austria, the Mobile Parking GmbH The company moved it into the high-rise building of the company Porr in the Absberggasse 47.

As of February 2005, the system was tested with the support of the EU's CIVITAS Initiative in Berlin in the Mitte, Charlottenburg -Wilmersdorf and Tempelhof -Schöneberg for a year there., In collaboration with SBS and T -Mobile

By phone call, SMS or WAP The operation was possible. In Berlin it was operated in the test phase only via telephone call. Was paid by bank transfer or direct debit. To the user who is logged vignettes were issued with barcodes. Which were read by the enforcement via GPRS -compatible mobile phone camera, sent to the clearinghouse, and seconds later they received the confirm whether paid or not.

Participating cities were:

• Bludenz (Pilot Operation: October 1, 2003 Real operation: April 1, 2004 End: 2007)
• Kitzbühel ( pilot operation: 1 September 2002 real operation: 1 March 2004 End: probably 2007)
• Krems an der Donau (Pilot operation: 1 July 2003 real-time operation on January 1, 2011 )
• Tulln an der Donau (Pilot operation: 1 September 2002 real operation: 1 March 2003 End: probably 2007)
• Amstetten (Pilot operation: November 1, 2004 End: March 31, 2007)

In 2006, the contracts were terminated with the communities through the Mobile Parking GmbH and with recent investments have the municipalities can switch to m-parking, which, however, none did. The company Porr Solutions real estate and infrastructure projects GmbH is in a promotional brochure of 13 January 2009, still believe that 15 locations in Austria to participate (with 14 named names, including the mentioned five municipalities ) and Berlin on their system.

Switzerland

On 8 November 2006, Fehraltorf (Canton Zurich ) as the first municipality in Switzerland the Handyparken one. The solution of myHandyTicket based on the " Park smart " system from Germany. Billing is the minute. The solution was adjusted in late 2011 for economic reasons.

Croatia

The Austrian system of M -Parking was first introduced by Mobilkom and Siemens in Europe in Croatia, as a pilot project in 2001 in Zagreb. The system proved successful and was fully realized in 2002. Meanwhile, already 17,000 parking spaces will be in Croatia thus operated in ten Croatian cities, where the system is in further growth. In Croatia, the M -Parking system from the " Hrvatska parking Udruga " ( the Croatian Parking - cooperative) is operated uniformly.