Four reasons to digitise your parking permits in 2025
Digitised parking permits make parking a whole lot easier – on motorists, councils, and the environment.
Most people now live (and drive) in places where governing bodies are legally allowed to digitise their parking permits. And yet, only some of them do. Electronic parking permits offer some huge benefits. Let’s take a look at some of them.
1. Efficiency and savings
Councils and agencies can save money and time when it comes to the burden of administrative tasks. With digitised processes, the application and approval process can be sped up, streamlined, or simply automated. Self-service portals are also becoming more common across the parking industry. These allow motorists to apply for permits in their own time, expanding access for users and reducing the hours council spend on customer support.
2. Compliance, transparency and parking equity
Printed physical permits can cause problems that are less common in electronic permits. When parking officers check digital permits, they do so on devices which accurately log important details such as timestamps and licence plates. Aside from being faster, these devices reduce instances of human error – that any person might make at the end of a long shift.
Digital footprints also help improve the transparency of application, approval and enforcement processes. The risk of fraudulent copying of permits, often seen with traditional paper permits, is eliminated with electronic parking permits.
3. Flexibility for motorists and residents
Need to change you type of permit? Add a new vehicle? Changes to permits are easy in an electronic system. With self-service, anytime-access, and live updates, a permit change can be requested, acted upon, and turned around in minutes rather than days or even weeks.
This is much more convenient for motorists, who might need to change their vehicle permit on short notice. No one needs the stress of a ticket to park a rental car outside your own house when your car is in the shop!
4. Improved sustainability
Traditionally, thousands of permits are printed each year, and sent to citizens in the post. Then if the permits are changed, they’re reprinted and sent again.
Digital permits do away with all that printing and postage – a real win from a sustainability perspective.
Across Australia, more and more councils and agencies are getting on board with digitised parking permits – and you can see why.
If you’re looking for more information about what digitising your parking permits might bring to your organisation, have a look at Orikan’s industry-leading ePermits solution.
