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Munich chooses Siemens for parking-space management
13.10.2009
Siemens Mobility is supplying 717 Sitraffic Sicuro pay and display machines (PDMs) to the city of Munich, Germany, under contract to Bremicker Verkehrstechnik of Weilheim, Germany.
The PDMs will be installed by mid 2010, both downtown and in the suburbs. The contract is worth around 1.71 million euros. Siemens already supplied 800 parking ticket machines to the city in 2008 and 2009.
Siemens Mobility is supplying 717 Sitraffic Sicuro parking ticket machines to the City of Munich.
Under a comprehensive parking-space management scheme, the city of Munich, is installing parking ticket machines in public areas. Siemens Mobility has been awarded a contract to supply its Sitraffic Sicuro models. As well as standard operation, a number of customer-specific functions have also been included in the pay and display machines. Payment can be made not only with coins or electronic purses, but also with the Munich ParkCard. An automatic barcode printout system has also been integrated specially for the Bavarian capital, so that accounts can be recorded and verified quickly and easily whenever the cash cassettes are changed.
The standard scope of supply includes data transmission using the GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) mobile communications standard. This permits device settings to be modified in real time and transaction data such as electronic cash payments to be processed around the clock in remote mode. Online ticket layout modification and the automatic startup of different parking zones directly from the control center are greatly simplifying operational procedures for the city of Munich. Showing the parking rate in a separate display means that printed tariff information do not have to be changed manually, a great benefit for the city of Munich compared to conventional machines. Moreover, it is no longer necessary to activate the parking ticket machines on site as they are gradually triggered for use after installation by remote control according to a schedule. Unlike the devices supplied previously, the new parking ticket machines are solar-powered. This not only cuts energy costs, but also avoids the need to install power connections.
Siemens won the order not only because of its innovative technology, but also thanks to the low operating costs for services such as rapid modification using flexible data storage systems and the digital display of tariff information.