Guides on running car parks.
How to run a parking area yourself: choose, set up, set tariffs, analyse.
The articles are aimed at everyone who runs their parking areas themselves: local authorities, hospitals, hotels, parking operators and property owners.
Every article answers a question from practice and points to the place in the PARQ system where you set it.
Topics range from smart parking comparisons and the question of how parking with licence plate recognition works, through car parks with or without a barrier and car park rates, to occupancy reports. Short answers can be found in the frequently asked questions, You can calculate your equipment in the Configurator .
Getting started
What should be clarified before the decision: area, drivers, technology.
Choosing a parking system: what mattersWhich questions to clarify before comparing parking systems, so that the system fits the site and not the other way round.Read
How does parking with licence plate recognition work?What happens at the entrance, how payment works, what data is generated, and why a parking ticket is no longer needed.Read
Car park with or without a barrier: what fits whenFree traffic flow or entry only for authorised vehicles. Both have their place, even on the same site.Read
Operation
How the area runs day to day: prices, processes, figures.
Setting car park tariffs and time windowsHow to structure prices for short-term and long-term parkers so that they fit the site and don't need constant adjustment in day-to-day operation.Read
Managing your car park yourself: the stepsFrom the initial survey and the parking concept through to ongoing operation, without handing the site over to someone else.Read
Analysing utilisation and acting on itWhich figures for a parking area really help, how to spot peaks, and which decisions you can make with them.Read
Your area, your rules.
We go through your area with you and show what the system does there.