Pay-by-phone parking

A closed (hooded / out of use) parking meter and a man paying for his parking by telephone. Seen in the Westminster area of London.
A sign telling people that they must pay for parking by telephone. Seen in the Westminster area of London.

Pay-by-phone parking is a system of paying for car parking via a mobile app or mobile network operator. It is an alternative to the traditional ways to pay for parking of parking meter or pay and display machines. SMS pay-by-phone parking was first introduced by Vipnet.[1] Since its introduction in Croatian capital Zagreb in 2001 under the name M-parking, the number of registered users has steadily increased. By 2004, the Croatian M-parking scheme was the largest in Europe (with over 130,000 users). Today, pay-by-phone parking is used by millions of people all around the world.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ Marat Terterov; Visjna Bojanic, eds. (2005). Doing Business with Croatia. GMB Publishing. p. 166. ISBN 9781905050536.
  2. ^ "Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Payment Users to Total 33 Million in 2008". Archived from the original on January 22, 2014. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
  3. ^ "Pay by Phone - Parking Division". Retrieved 13 July 2017.
  4. ^ "MIT brings latest parking payment technology on campus with the PayByPhone app". Retrieved 13 July 2017.