
Smart Parking
To encourage the use of public transport, different municipalities sometimes provide free parking when people are using public transport to and from the city centre (travel and parking, Park + Ride).
We developed a solution that allows a Parking POS terminal, to check the last travel transactions of a medium (such as the Dutch OV chip card), to determine if the commuter has travelled on public transport from the centre to the parking location in the last few hours, and if so, to apply a discount on the parking fee.
This solution is integrated with various parking management systems and is in use in many Park + Ride sites in the Netherlands. In addition, the following additional benefits are possible: