Disc parking

A parking disc is used for parking of motor vehicles to indicate the time of arrival ( at the Park beginning ) of a motor vehicle on a signposted as a parking area with monitoring of parking time.

The forerunner of today's rules can be found in the designation of the Blue Zone in city centers - in this parking zone could with a corresponding ( regionally different ) parking disc up to two hours parking is complimentary. The current control with the unified EU parking disc allows a wider range of time restrictions, which are on the parking signs indicated.

For example, parking meters come to monitor the parking time at paid parking places are used.

Legal regulations

Germany

The parking areas may be marked by signs 314 (parking ) or characters 315 ( Parking on sidewalks ) and by an additional sign shall use a parking disc, or by signs 290 and 292 ( limited stop ban for a zone ) and 314.1 and 314.2 ( parking management zone). Since the time of the commencement Park is displayed is also getting the word arrival to read on the front of the parking disc. A single additional character without the appropriate traffic signs above is not binding ( § 39 para 2 Highway Code ).

The time is set manually by the disk is rotated until the line with the corresponding indication under the white triangle (arrow ) shows the actual arrival of the next half hour. The division of the scale deliberately allowed an accuracy of only half an hour (§ 13 Highway Code ). Adjusting to a white space is not permitted.

For example, the arrow must Upon arrival between 11:00:00 and 11:29 clock clock and 59 seconds on the parking disc must be included in the next line, so 11:30 clock can be set, because already at 11:00 clock the next half hour begins following the date of arrest. Upon arrival between 11:30:00 and 11:59:59 clock clock the disk is rotating at 12:00 clock.

This means that the actual duration of the allowed parking time corresponds to, which is specified in the respective additional characters plus the time between the actual arrival time and the arrival time to be set in the parking disc. So in the worst case, at a signposted parking period, such as one hour is the allowed parking time 60 minutes plus the remaining seconds of started last minute, at best, accurate to the second 90 minutes.

The symbol of the parking disc is governed by the Road Traffic Regulations ( highway code image 318). The shape and texture of the parking disc was determined by Verkehrsblatt Statement No. 237 of 24 November 1981. The external dimensions are 150 mm high and then 110 mm wide. The parking disc must be placed visibly in the motor vehicle so that the arrival time can be read from the outside.

In Germany Parking discs must have the minimum legal size. Thus, the Brandenburg Higher Regional Court ruled against a German driver who used a many times smaller Italian parking disc (40 mm x 60 mm) in Germany and thus committed an offense. Similarly, the color and the font used is prescribed. Parking discs must have the same shade of blue as the rest of traffic signs, as they are counted as a traffic sign. When using alternate models, a fine may be imposed.

Austria

The first statutory provisions on parking discs - vulgo called parking meter - were introduced in 1961, The then introduced parking discs with two pointers ( black for the arrival and red for the expiration time ) and division into quarter hours are also valid for the latest version, which since 1994 only the black pointer is set ( § 4 para 3). The current " short-term parking zone monitoring regulation " in Austria differs from the regulations from the blue parking disc in Germany and Switzerland, in § 4 para 2 states:

" The pointer has to inform the arrival time, and the following full quarter of an hour can be rounded up to the the time of placement. "

Accordingly, the arrival on the parking disc to 10:15 clock may be set at an actual arrival at 10:01 clock. Also from the legal text, there is also the different style of Austrian parking discs - with a pointer and a dial with quarter hour clock (shown in Appendix 1 of the Act). As a precaution, should not be used in Germany or Switzerland, an Austrian parking disc, conversely, better no German or Swiss parking disc in Austria should be used. Although the employees of parking enforcement improper parking discs with the correct setting recognize routinely, it can be relied upon in the case of a criminal mandate not.

Switzerland

In Switzerland, a parking disc must be in parking lots, which are marked with blue lines, are used at certain times, even if no traffic sign explicitly refers to the use of parking discs. The setting of the arrival time is analogous to the specifications in Germany, ie in an actual arrival at 10:01 clock arrival time is placed on the parking disc to 10:30 clock. The Federal Office for Roads explicitly shows that is set at an arrival time at exactly 11:00 clock on the following line for clock 11:30.

On Sunday may be parked on blue -lined parking lots generally without a parking disc, unless specified on an additional panel that the parking disc shall also be affixed on Sunday. On working days (including Saturday ) may on blue -lined parking just around noon (more precisely: from 11:30 bis 13:30 clock ) and at night (more precisely: from 19:00 bis 8:00 clock ) for more than a hour be parked with a parking disc. On some discs Swiss Park, a notice is posted on the regulations in the Blue Zone with the following imprint:

In contrast to the signs in Germany, the periods listed do not refer to the effect of Parkierbeschränkung, but they call the highest Parkierdauer according to the arrival time. The provisions of the blue zone also apply outside the periods indicated. Therefore, it is always interpreted as a parking disc to the time of arrival. However, the parking can freely outside the one-hour restriction and the Parkierdauer extended accordingly. The police order provisions are set out as follows:

The permissible Parkierzeit varies therefore depending on the actual arrival time of between 61 minutes and may be over the weekend for up to 39 hours. Examples:

Older Swiss parking discs that display next to the arrival time nor the end of Parkierzeit, are no longer permitted in Switzerland and most other countries. They were partially tolerated by the end of 2005 in Switzerland.

History

A first park disc-like system was introduced in 1957 in Paris, to reduce long-term parking. Thought it was by the engineer Robert Thiebault and the Prefect of Police Roger genes Brier.

For the first time in Austria Short-term parking was introduced in parts of the 1st district in Vienna on 16 March 1959. At the same time it was decreed that drivers of cars have to put a parking disc behind the windshield. In this Vienna parking disc, the city did not take the systems of Paris and Salzburg as a model, but was by then Viennese building director Aladar Pecht the named after him Pechtscheibe designed: Two connected with each other pointer mounted on a dial, marked exactly the period of a hour. With one hand, the arrival time has been set, the second was necessarily the allowed parking at the end. Because of the similarity with a clock, the term parking meter was colloquially widespread.

As the first German city of Kassel introduced on the initiative of the then police commissioner and later mayor of Kassel Heinz Hille a parking disc in 1961.

On 31 May 1979, the Conference of Transport Ministers of the European Community decided to introduce a uniform parking disc scheme.

The nature of the parking disc was described in Germany in Verkehrsblatt 1981 p 447.

Others

Parking discs can also be used as an advertising medium, the advertising shall be affixed only on the back. They have the back sometimes also conversion tables for fuel economy. The rivet the watch axis is also in the back of some use: as a warehouse for a fuel - slide rule, a variant of the slide rule.

Commercially also parking discs with built-in movement are offered, which rotates the parking disc. While this type of parking discs is not illegal, but it is not allowed that the clock continues to run during parking. Manufacturers of such parking discs apply the advantage of saving time for users. The time on the parking disc must not be set specifically, but always show the current time. At the beginning of the parking time merely had to be stopped the movement.

For motorcycles, there are perforated parking discs that can be secured with cable ties or lock on the vehicle. In many communities, however, parking restrictions apply only to track vehicles.

The Austrian Alpine Association has developed a May 2013 Alpine parking meter. Mountaineers can use a pointer " I 'm at the latest back to " specify a time on a circular Uhrskala with the 7 days of the week Monday-Sunday and strokes every 6 hours. If now an abandoned car is found with such a parking meter and time is at a starting point for mountain hikes, can call a phone number left behind and possibly a search or relief action be initiated.