Three-quarters of drivers have experienced issues when paying to park by mobile app
The vast majority of UK drivers still favour paying for parking with cards and cash over apps. Three-quarters of UK drivers (73%) who have used a mobile app to pay for parking in the last 12 months experienced difficulties doing so, with most preferring the reliability that comes from using bank cards or cash, new […]
Government teams with parking giants to ensure drivers can use preferred apps in all car parks
The British Parking Association will develop and run a ‘national parking platform’, providing drivers with a more flexible parking experience. Drivers are set to benefit from simpler parking nationwide, as industry delivers a ‘one app fits all’ parking platform at no cost to the taxpayer, following government-backed trials. The government has confirmed that, following successful […]
RAC reacts to launch of National Parking Platform
Following the news from the Government that the National Parking Platform is set to launch, RAC senior policy officer Rod Dennis said: “Paying to park a car should be one of the simplest things any driver does, but things have got much more complicated in recent years – a point demonstrated by the fact there are so many […]
National Parking Platform entering “exciting era”
The head of the Transport Technology Forum’s Smarter Parking Working Group has confirmed that the private sector is setting up a consortium to run the National Parking Platform programme. The platform enables a simpler experience for motorists paying for parking because payments can be made using any of several established apps, rather than having to […]
New options considered for National Parking Platform
The Department for Transport says it is working with the parking industry to “explore options for taking forward delivery of a national [parking] platform”. The comments, reported in the Guardian Newspaper, follow suggestions the government is going to withdraw funding for the scheme with a minister seemingly blaming “the dire financial position Labour inherited from […]
Dozens of delegates use NPP and in-vehicle signage solutions demonstrated at TTF Conference
The Transport Technology Forum is estimating that more than 70 delegates at its conference last month tried out the new National Parking Platform (NPP) and downloaded the bespoke app to experience in-vehicle signing on their own Android and Apple smartphones when travelling to the event. The app delivered delegates right to the entrance to the […]
NPP passes 200 authority landmark, as technology is tried out by TTF delegates
The Transport Technology Forum’s Smarter Parking Working Group have announced that the number of local authorities who have signed up to the scheme has passed 200. The announcement was made at the group’s meeting at the TTF’s Annual Conference in Leicestershire, where delegates were able to try the solution for themselves, signing up for a […]
National Parking Platform and in-vehicle signing demonstrated at TTF Conference
Delegates attending the Transport Technology Forum conference in Leicestershire later in the month will have a chance to try out the new National Parking Platform when they arrive at the venue on 23 April. They can also experience in vehicle signing on their own Android and Apple smartphones. When parking at the Leonardo Hinkley Island […]
TTF showcases near-to-market connected vehicle solutions
The Transport Technology Forum’s Connected Vehicle Working Group has undertaken the latest in its series of demonstrations of cutting-edge near-to-market solutions. A group of specially-invited senior decision makers from the Department for Transport, National Highways and Local Authorities attended a day at UTAC’s Millbrook Proving Ground. From being guided to the event car park via […]
Roads Minister writes to authority Chief Executives explaining National Parking Platform
The Roads and Local Transport Minister, Richard Holden, has written to every local authority Chief Executive urging them to join the new National Parking Platform. The NPP is a Department for Transport-led initiative to simplify parking payment, with four primary functions. These are to provide simplified and improved customer service, a data exchange to enable […]