Full-Automatic Parking registration and payment: In principle GNSS-based road pricing

As part of ITS Platform North Denmark a full-automatic GNSS-based parking payment (PP) system was developed (P app). On the basis of the parking position and parking time it can determine the price of parking and collect the amount from the car owner’s bank account. The driver is informed about any initiation of PP via SMS. If the driver finds the payment erroneous, it can be cancelled via SMS. Parking attendants can check if the car in question has an ongoing payment for parking. To handle the problems with GNSS-based positioning in densely built-up areas an advanced mapmatching algorithm was integrated in the P app. 24 of the participating vehicles used the P app, and 58 parking payments were carried out without errors. In a few cases, a wrong parking area was selected. This was due to lack of information in the map rather than errors in the mapmatching algorithm.