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Lansdale, Pennsylvania orders parking payment kiosks

June 19, 2014

The City of Lansdale, Pennsylvania has ordered three parking payment kiosks from Vancouver, British Columbia-based Digital Payment Technologies, says the Reporter.

Digital Payment Technologies’ Luke II Multi-Space Pay Stations cost $10,000 each, the Reporter says. The company is owned by Indianapolis, Indiana-based T2 Systems.

The Lonsdale Comprehensive Parking Study, completed in 2012 by Nelson Nygaard of the Lonsdale Parking Authority, made recommendations for improving city parking.

According to the study, while city parking lots in certain downtown areas were 80 percent full at peak-time, parking lots just a block away from downtown were only 50 percent occupied.

The study recommended the town make better use of existing parking areas while allowing in-fill development in the downtown area. Recommendations also included implementing demand responsive pricing (higher prices in the downtown core area, moderate prices in adjacent areas and keeping the remaining parking free of charge), eliminating time limits for paid and unpaid parking and letting price drive turnover and availability.

Luke II has features that enable it to meet these recommendations. It accepts coins, bills, credit cards, smart cards, value cards, campus cards, pay-by-phone, coupons, and contactless payments such as MasterCard PayPass. Real-time credit card processing reduces processing fees and eliminates bad debt, says Digital Payments Technology.

Luke II can handle pay-and-display, pay-by-space, and pay-by-license plate on the same pay station. It offers remote configuration of rates and policies, real-time reporting and alarming, analytics and audit trail.

According to Digital Payment Technologies, Luke II’s meter has a large color screen and offers prompts in multiple languages; it can send parking expiry reminders to mobile phones and receive payments from the mobile phones in order to extend parking time, and it has a full alphanumeric keypad for license plate entry.