The growth of the personal car fleet in Russia over the past decade has become the largest in the history of our country. Residents of large cities got acquainted with all the delights of total motorization - traffic jams and lack of parking spaces. The problem of temporary storage of personal cars is helped by free public and paid private parking. Moreover, there are more and more commercial parking lots.
Paid parking can be located both in the residential sector and in business and industrial districts. The most common option is ground parking. Such areas, as a rule, are fenced off and guarded, including with the involvement of private security companies and service dogs.
The operating principles of most paid parking lots are simple. The client enters the territory and independently chooses a parking space. More responsible parking staff help visitors choose the most optimal place so that by the time the client picks up the car, the car will not be blocked. After the vehicle is parked, parking workers are required to inspect the exterior of the vehicle for external damage. This is necessary so that the visitor's claims for damage to the car in the parking lot are justified. Also, customers must be reminded that the car must be completely closed and set on an alarm, and all valuables must be removed from the passenger compartment. After the process of accepting the car under protection is over, the car owner pays for parking according to the established tariffs. The data about the car, the owner and the time of setting are entered in the log book, and a receipt for the service payment is issued.
In automatic parking lots, the driver stops at the entrance in front of the payment counter. After the client enters all the necessary information, the machine issues him a ticket with a barcode. The barrier opens and the visitor puts the vehicle in the place of his choice.
When the driver picks up the vehicle, in non-automatic parking lots he pays for the time that the car spent in excess of the already paid one. Conducts an appearance inspection and leaves. At automatic parking lots, the driver, without leaving the passenger compartment, presents the ticket to the cashier or scans it at the payment counter. The computer calculates the amount of payment and the client pays it in the same way as in payment terminals. Until the payment is made, the barrier will not open and the vehicle will not be able to leave the parking lot.
Paid parking lots often have a subscription payment system. At the same time, a regular customer books and pays for a parking space for a certain period. At the same time, the parking lot receives a permanent paying client, and the driver gets the opportunity to constantly occupy the same place he likes, the confidence that this place will not be occupied by anyone. In addition, regular visitors are given the opportunity to pay for services through a bank or payment terminals with significant discounts.
Many private parking lots offer an additional range of services - minor car repair, tire fitting, car wash, engine warming up.
