The government has announced the National Parking Platform (NPP) as a “one app fits all” approach to paying for parking and end the “scramble” to download multiple payment platforms. Drivers will be able to use any of the large apps to pay instead of having to download one for each car park, according to the Department for Transport.
The NPP has already been in a trial phase in ten local authorities in England, seeing over half a million transactions being made. It will now be handed over to an industry body to expand it to car parks and app providers who sign up throughout the country.
The RAC welcomed the NPP but said that it needs to be adopted more widely if it can make a real difference to motorists. “Paying to park a car should be one of the simplest things any driver does, but things have got much more complicated in recent years,” RAC senior policy officer Rod Dennis said. “If the arrival of a National Parking Platform removes that hassle, it’s definitely a welcome move. But the key will be ensuring as many car park operators as possible sign up to the system.”
With the NPP, drivers can use any of the main apps in any car park which has signed up to the scheme. This, the government said, would end the “scramble to download multiple apps,” adding that it encourages “a more flexible parking experience.”
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