AppyWay launches Parking Platform

The Parking Platform is the latest product developed by technology company AppyWay to help local authorities, car parks and electric vehicle (EV) chargepoint operators gain digital control of their physical assets.

The Parking Platform is a back office integration software that works for both on-street and off-street parking across the public and private sector. Capabilities include: multi-vendor parking payments and reconciliation; EV charging software; insights dashboards showing historical and real-time occupancy from on or offstreet parking; revenue insights and third party transaction reporting from third party mobile and parking machines. Integration tools enable the pulling of third party data and the pushing of authoritative data into fleets, logistics and motorists.

AppyWay says the Parking Platform adopts an agnostic approach to help all stakeholders within the public and private parking and mobility ecosystem build mutual value and efficiencies.

AppyWay founder Dan Hubert said: ‘The UK’s fragmented industry has caused local authorities and motorists unnecessary environmental and economical pain for decades. AppyWay was founded on the premise to unite this fragmented world and help create more livable and breathable cities. The Parking Platform can act as an immediate remedy and fully supports the Department for

Transport’s plans for a digitally United Kingdom.”

Tariffs and hours of operation have previously been notoriously difficult to standardise across the UK. Car parks have endless permit types and variations of peak and off-peak hours. The lack of digital Traffic Regulation Orders (TROs) and data standards for on-street has meant that there are over 200,000 possible restriction and tariff combinations dotted along the UK’s kerbside.

Hubert said: “The Parking Platform cost calculator has made sense of every edge case across 500-plus town and cities, uniting on and off-street for the first time, allowing motorists to search for the cheapest or nearest at any point in time.”

AppyWay has been an active supporter of Department of Transport data discovery projects. For example, the department is developing a technology hub called the National Parking Platform (NPP) that will create a centralised portal for managing and accessing on-street and off-street parking across the UK.

Preceding the inception of the NPP, AppyWay helped influence several reports on the requirements for a digital first solution. The Parking Platform will work with all industry recognised and emerging data models including the APDS, TRO-DD and TN-ITS.

The Parking Platform also works with EV chargepoint operators, barrier systems, ANPR cameras for intelligent enforcement and seamless car park barrier entry. As a result AppyWay reports that longstanding local authority partners, including Harrogate, Coventry and Dundee, have been seeing back office efficiencies and improved customer centric services. The open market for cashless payments could potentially cause more administration burden for parking managers who will have to liaise with several cashless apps when tariff and operational hours are adjusted.

The Parking Platform is AppyWay’s third product offering. It sits alongside Traffic Suite and AppyParking+. AppyWay said the Traffic Suite digital traffic order management service acts as a “ledger of truth” within local authorities and pushes data into The Parking Platform, allowing parking managers to automatically update all suppliers with a click of button. Meanwhile, AppyWay+ displays AppyWay’s Kerbside API with over 21,000km of London’s restricted kerbside.

Hubert added: “The Parking Platform powered by AppyWay is a game-changing solution for the parking industry. Its capabilities in digitising, centralising, and standardising data sets will provide numerous optimisation and decarbonisation opportunities for local authorities, car parks, and EV chargepoint operators across the UK.” AppyWay will be showing its suite of products at Parkex 2023 on stand P154