A first for the Greater Lyon Area.

Paris, 2nd July 2009 The town of Caluire-et-Cuire, part of the Greater Lyon Area, recently issued a call for tenders to extend the provision of paid parking facilities. This included the acquisition of fourteen parking meters, of which thirteen accept payment both by bank card and coins. Parkeons bid, with its Strada parking meter, was accepted by the town to offer its motorists a wider range of on-street parking services.

Payment by bank card

The town of Caluire-et-Cuire wishes to enable users to pay for parking in the easiest and most practical way possible. In this regard, Caluire-et-Cuire wanted its parking meters to accept not only coin payments but also payment by bank card.

Bank cards are favoured by the majority of French people, with 57 million cards in circulation and 6 billion transactions carried out every year. They have some major advantages: most users carry them in their pockets and they now enable the user to pay the amount that corresponds exactly to the parking time needed, whereas the probability of having coins, especially in the right quantity, is much more remote. Today, more than 70 towns and cities in France have adopted bank card payment for their parking meters: Neuilly-sur-Seine, Issy-les-Moulineaux, Vincennes, Levallois-Perret, La Rochelle, Besançon, Caen, Bayonne, ...

About Parkeon

Parkeon is a key player in urban mobility. Thanks to the wide-ranging services it offers, which are unique in terms of parking and transport management, Parkeon is today present in 40 countries. Its capacity for continual innovation has been displayed throughout its 35 year history. Parkeon systems and equipment facilitate management and mobility in over 3000 towns and cities. The leader in ticketing and systems for parking and transport payment, Parkeon employs more than 1100 staff around the world and registered a turnover of 176 million euros in 2008. Based in Europe, the company is present in France, where its head office is located, in Australia, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK, and in the USA. It relies on an international network of partners to cover other markets. For more information: www.parkeon.com

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