If you stay parked for an extra minute, you will have to pay an extra half hour or even an hour of parking fees. This "rounding up" charging method has troubled many car owners. Starting this year, many places across the country have lowered parking charges on roads and public parking lots. They have not only extended the free parking hours, lowered charging standards, but also implemented precise minute-by-minute charging. How can the new parking fee regulations enable limited parking spaces to efficiently serve more short-term parking needs and solve the problem of "parking for 61 minutes" for car owners? Let’s take a look at the reporter’s observations.
Recently, Ms. Qu from Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province discovered that the public parking lot at the north gate of Xixi Wetland Park at her doorstep has started charging by the minute.
Ms. Qu: This is very good. You can charge as many minutes as you want. In many parking lots, if you park for more than two hours and a few minutes, you may be charged three hours.
The Shanghai Municipal Development and Reform Commission recently issued an announcement to solicit public opinions on the Shanghai road parking charging policy optimization plan. The optimization plan is planned to stipulate that
Vehicles parked in Shanghai road parking lots (within the same road section) are free of charge within 15 minutes (inclusive). If the parking time exceeds 15 minutes, parking will be charged from the starting time;
A single vehicle can enjoy two short-term free parkings per calendar day within the city.
After the optimization plan was released, many citizens believed that the new regulations were very friendly to temporary parking services.
Comparing the old and new charging standards, it can be found that the adjustment of the charging standards reflects the policy considerations of the government departments to adjust parking resources through price levers and encourage the development of street economy and night-time economy.
The reporter noticed that since this year, Yichang in Hubei, Nanchang in Jiangxi, Changsha in Hunan and other places have introduced relevant policies to optimize urban road parking management rules.
In a government-invested public parking lot in Yichang urban area, the previous starting price for parking was 5 yuan for 2 hours. The new standard is more conducive to accurate billing.
The new version of the "Hunan Province Motor Vehicle Parking Service Charges Management Measures" that came into effect this year stipulates that the charging method for motor vehicle parking services can be based on the parking conditions and needs, including time-based, time-based, monthly or annual charging.
Zheng Xiang, a professor at the Beijing Comprehensive Transportation Development Institute of Beijing Jiaotong University, said that my country's urban road parking charging management is transforming from an extensive model of charging first and providing services to a precise operation model of paying when parking.
Zheng Xiang: Behind this is actually the joint upgrade of consumer rights protection rules, smart parking technology capabilities and urban governance logic.
Zheng Xiang believes that from the perspective of urban parking management, price levers are accurately adjusting road parking demand. While the demand for short-term parking services is accelerating, it is also easing urban congestion. But for the parking industry, the parking lot has shifted from an operation model of collecting money from enclosing land to paying more attention to refined services and digital operation capabilities.
