Parking Controls: Making Parking Easy

Parking controls allow you to make a choice of when and which vehicle enters your parking area. With an effective parking control system, regular drivers may access the parking area with a document, while drivers on transit may access it through making payment or obtaining a parking ticket. For parking control  to work, the gate should have a strong barrier, with the gate arm in the down position to require the parkers to make payment. Present a parking ticket or an access document at the Access Control Area so that they may be allowed into the parking area.

Three necessary features of parking controls

1. Ability to detect and accept payments

First, you need to determine the type of customers your facility will be serving. If you serve transit or one-time clients, you need to design a flat rate charge system irrespective of the amount of time the vehicle has to spend in your parking lot. These customers or cars will not require prior authorization when they require the service. The parking controls will accept anyone to enter the facility at any time, but payments will be needed before exit.

2. The parking credential that will suit your services

Determine the credentials you will serve your business based on the number of vehicles you expect and the convenience. Don’t let your customers fumble for crucial cards to make your business efficient, easy, and fast.

3. Different entry points for different customer types 

Avoid confusion with customers. You will not want to serve a single type of customer, and you may opt for both long and short-term parkers.  Consider the ratio of the two types of customers and accommodate each class in your parking control system. Allocate them into separate parking lanes with different payment methods. The long-term parkers will not be happy waiting in a long queue as the short-term parkers make payments, and they will need to present their credentials as they exit the parking lot conveniently.

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