page_title: Pay-by-plate parking
section_title: Installations
hierarchical_section_title: Pay-by-plate parking / Installations
caption_attribution_description: English: Global Parking Solutions Metropolis Pay-By-Plate terminal
context_page_description: Pay-by-plate machines are a subset of ticket machines used for regulating parking in urban areas or in parking lots. They enable customers to purchase parking time by using their license plate number. The machines print a receipt that generally displays the location, machine number, start time, expiration time, amount paid, and license plate.
context_section_description: In Canada, the first pay-by-plate system was unveiled in Calgary, AB on September 20, 2007.  This was a system commissioned by the Calgary Parking Authority using CALE pay machines, Tannery Creek Systems autoChalk enforcement technology, and MTS Allstream for pay by cellphone and was branded under the ParkPlus banner. For their efforts, the ParkPlus system was awarded the 2009 Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Best Practices Award.
  Whistler, BC followed suit on July 12, 2010 unveiling its Pay by Plate system consisting of CALE pay machines, and gtechna enforcement technology.  Since the ParkPlus system issues mailout tickets it is not considered "real-time", thus the Whistler installation is the first real-time system in Canada. However, in late 2015, the Calgary Parking Authority unveiled a new system for issuing tickets in real time at the street level using hand-held tablets and portable printers that access the pay-by-plate information in the ParkPlus system.
  In the USA, the first pay-by-plate system to go live with real-time enforcement was in Denver Colorado. On February 2008, the Regional Transportation District rolled out a system consisting of MacKay Meters, MacKay Guardian Multi pay stations and Federal APD PIPS mobile LPR enforcement system.  The system features optional receipts that consumers don't need to put on their dash and vehicle mounted ALPR at speeds up to 30 mph for enforcement.
  The largest Pay-By-Plate parking system in the world was installed by Global Parking Solutions (GPS) for Brisbane City Council in Brisbane, Australia, in 2009. GPS supplied and installed more than 1000 Metropolis Pay-by-Plate terminals for Brisbane City Council and also custom-built a comprehensive parking system, including enforcement, Pay-by-Phone, central management system, credit card transactions, and more. The solution cost 33% less than allocated capex budget and reduced opex by 33%. The system has the potential to integrate other technologies such as Pay by Phone and reduce the number of terminals.
  While Norwalk, CT launched their plate enabled permit system on March 25, 2011, it was not a true pay-by-plate system as it utilized parking permits instead and takes a pay-by-space approach. It was a project managed and driven by LAZ Parking utilizing the gtechna Permit System, Cale pay by space pay stations, ParkMobile pay by phone system, and gtechna Officer Plate system.  The only piece missing to make this a complete plate processing solution, is the parking terminal.  With no parking terminal and pay by space, this breaks the plate enforcement efficiency in the field.
  Washington, DC has done some trial tests with Pay by Plate (Fall 2010), and will probably proceed with this technology.  As of May 2014, Washington, DC the only component available for the "parker" to pay plate for parking, is with the ParkMobile mobile system.
  Pittsburgh, PA is implementing the largest Pay-by-Plate parking terminal project in the USA.  This project has started on July 26, 2012.  As of January 2013, Pittsburgh Parking Authority has completed the installation of 550+ Pay-by-Plate parking terminals.  Every Parking Terminal is modem enabled, and is transmigrating all payments for parking in real-time.  All the parking officers (PEO's) in Pittsburgh, and using Honneywell 9900 mobile hand held computers to enforce the "parkers" vehicle plate.  This technology is also installed in all off-street lots within the City of Pittsburgh.  The enforcement solution provider in Pittsburgh, PA is gtechna corporation. This will be the largest USA pay-by-plate  campaign to date.
  For Pittsburgh, PA the Parking Authority has now (Sept 2014) installed 800+ pay by plate parking terminals.  These terminals generate over 25,000 transactions per day for on-street and off-street parking.  The technology used for terminals supplied by CALE America and to enforce / verify the plate it is an Android smartphone & Officer eTicket software provided by gtechna.  Mr. Mastronardi CTO of gtechna, is watching the pay by plate at Pittsburgh very closely since it re
caption: Global Parking Solutions Metropolis Pay-By-Plate terminal
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