Arrival of the town’s first pay-on-exit machines to Tunbridge Wells, UK

The pay and display system has been heavily criticised in Tunbridge Wells, as parkers have to hurry back to beat the expiry time on their ticket. The Tunbridge Wells Borough Council have listened to this feed-back and together with Cale BriParc introduced a system where you can pay at the end of your stay, using either a credit or debit card. The machines can accept both coins and credit/debit cards. Coin payments initiate a ‘Pre Payment Session’ ( conventional pay and display) and cards initiate a ‘Post Payment Session’. Drivers can check in using their card at one machine in the car park and check out at another machine in the same car park.

The post payment system (Cale PoP) has successfully been used in Scandinavia for 15 years. 

If this pilot installation at the Great Hall car park is a success, the technology will be rolled out across the town's five multi-storeys.

Steve Nicholls, managing director of Cale, the Paddock Wood-based company behind this system, said: This car park is good to test the concept. It's not too big or small and it has a good turn-over of vehicles. We are really excited. We've put in a lot of effort to get this right."

Source (text and picture): http://www.courier.co.uk/revolutionary-trial-car-park-just-ticket/story-25912650-detail/story.html (click the link for the the full article).

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About Cale

Cale is a Swedish company founded in 1955 and specializing in products for parking. Cale has become one of the leading suppliers of advanced and flexible pay & display machines in the world. This is the result of our dynamic product development, additional services and worldwide network of resellers. It all started with mechanical parking meters and has continued to the highly advanced tickets issuing machines that they produce today. With the experience they have gained over the years, they are today in a position where their products have been installed in about 35 countries around the world. This presence in many different markets, all with varying requirements, gives them broad experience that they use in the development of all new products.