Mobile parking

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Mobile parking is a solution for payment of parking by use of a celluar phone. It is used both on on-street and off-street parking, but usually when a barrier is not involved.

Parking wardens enforce the parkings by license plate, transponder tags or barcode stickers or in the case of the ParkMagic system which is used in Ireland and the USA they read a digital display with their eyes in the same way as they read a pay and display receipt.

Mobile Phone Parking as a concept was established in the 1990s, but first commercialized in 00s in Scandinavia end Estonia. The leading vendors in the business are Easy Park, NOW! Innovations, Park-Line, mPark and ParkMagic