Richard Boultbee's parking predictions

Physical parking payment systems and cash are both here to stay, says Metric Group’s Richard Boultbee. He talks to Mark Moran about future trends

Parking involves selling space and time. In the beginning, off-street parking space was sold by men sitting at barriers and on-street by clockwork meters. Over time a raft of new technologies, including pay & display ticket machines and networked pay-on-foot systems with automated barriers, became the norm.

In the past decade cashless payment options have spread from card reading machines to virtual systems such as phone parking, which itself is evolving as phones become smarter and a wide...

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