Pay and display
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This article is about the machine. For the sitcom see Pay And Display (TV series).
Pay and display machines are a subset of ticket machines used for regulating parking in urban areas or in carparks. It relies on a customer purchasing a ticket from a machine and displaying the ticket on the dashboard, or windscreen or passenger window of the vehicle.
Pay and display systems differ from road-side parking meters in that one machine can service 100 or more vehicle spaces and the set up costs are thus much lower. In addition, this system prevents drivers from taking advantage of parking meters that have time remaining - this factor alone has doubled parking revenues in cities that have switched to pay and display.[1] In addition, pay and display machines can also accept a wider variety of coins, and many even accept credit cards, making it unnecessary for drivers to carry large amounts of change. The use of credit cards has another advantage - the machines do not have to be emptied of coins as often, and the costs of counting coin and possible pilfering by employees who empty the parking meters also reduces their overall costs.
In the UK pay and display is used for both on-street parking control and parking in car parks and multi-storey car parks.
