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Different Types of Parking Pay Stations



The modern parking lots today no longer use humans for collecting payments but instead there are pay stations where you can pay for your time of parking. Some parking pay stations include barrier gates but some don't. If you want to know the different types of parking pay stations, then continue to read the article.


Let us first look at parking without barrier gates. If you enter a parking lot with no barrier gates, there are many ways of paying for parking in a pay station. The pay and display, pay by license, or pay by space are the options that you can use for paying in a pay station with no barrier gates. In this type of parking lot you simply enter and choose a space and then go to the pay station and pay for the number of hours you need to stay. The first option, the pay and display option, requires you to put your receipt on your vehicle dashboard after paying so that the parking enforcement officer can check up on it and issue parking violations if necessary.


You can also choose to pay by space. Here you need to enter the space number that you have selected and pay for the amount of time you will be using the space. The parking enforcement officer can easily check if the one using the space ahs paid the right amount for the parking through printed reports. On the internet or on parking citation writers, these reports can easily be viewed. Click here to know more.


The pay by license options is done by entering your license plate and paying for the amount of time you will be parking. There is a printed format or online that the parking enforcement officer can check for a valid license.


In the parking pay station with barrier gates, the parking lot gates control the entering and exiting in the parking lot. You can find parking lots with flat rate payment systems. When you enter the parking lot, you can pay or you can pay when you exit the lot. The payment does not consider the time you will be staying in the parking lot.


You can also find the full featured parking kiosk system in a gate parking lot. This is a time based parking payment system. You get a ticket when you enter the parking lot and you are charged a fee upon exit. The payment is based on the amount of time you use the parking space. In some systems you need to pay in a walk-up machine and once the payment is receive you are able to exit your car from the lot. Some system allow payment at the exit gates. Machine accept payment using credit cards, EMV, bills and coins upon exit. If you have change for your cash, then this will also be issued.


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