The parking space race

Paying for a parking space with a smartphone or using a specially designed app to guide you to a free space are now on their way to becoming the rule rather than the exception. In addition, wireless sensors are another of the latest systems that are being introduced to car parks in European cities. These are designed to provide users with information about payments and to record occupancy data, which can then also be used to enable the local authorities to determine the parking rates according to the demand, location and time of day. With this system, drivers are given all the information they need to find the right spaces to park their cars in a given area. The popularity of intelligent parking systems has also been growing in Polish cities. Various systems are being introduced, but most use GPS data from drivers’ smartphones and sensors installed in car parks. Many systems but the same goal Comarch’s Smart Parking is one of such systems. One pilot programme (partnered b