Case Study
National Parking Platform – Pilots
The NPP is a major publicly-owned initiative funded by the Department for Transport and hosted by Manchester City Council. It is open to public and private parking operators and service providers.
Client
Department of Transport
What we did
We are leading this major Department for Transport / Manchester City Council initiative. The NPP will improve the customer journey across the full range of on-street and off-street parking, both public and private.
Parking Matters is at the forefront of this initiative, leading the work of APDS, which is a not-for-profit organisation funded by the UK Department for Transport and parking industry sponsors.
Outcome
Customers will be able to find a parking space, check tariff and availability, pre-book a space and make payment in real time using the App of their choice. The Platform provides a single open interface to register the right to park, accept multi-vendor payment, and enable enforcement decisions to be established instantly.
The Platform is the first publicly owned open parking data platform in the UK and the first practical implementation of the APDS standards.
Parking operators will be able to
- Describe the parking they offer (including rates, times, restrictions etc)
- Publicise occupancy in real time
- Accept payments and reservations from Service Providers without the need for a contract with each one
- Digitise compliance monitoring without the need for local digital infrastructure
Service Providers will be able to
- Offer their customers the ability to park in any participating operator’s facility
- Pay operators for parking used by their customers without the need for a contract with each one
- Negotiate rates and access with operators for their customers
- Reserve spaces in operator’s facilities
Find out more about the NPP
The NPP makes parking data available to the customer via third-party Service Provider apps. Car parks and on-street parking areas that supply data to the NPP have enhanced “digital visibility” which gives them an important commercial and competitive advantages.
Find out more about APDS
The NPP manages data exchange between systems and is based on the Alliance for Parking Data Standards (APDS) technical specifications, which form the basis of ISO Technical Specification [ISO/TS 5206-1] and the revision of the CEN Technical Specification [CEN/TS 16157-6].