Colleges & Universities

Universities can benefit from Digital Payment Technologies’ (DPT) parking management solutions. How? We offer dynamic solutions to help improve a university’s service to students and faculty, assist a university to manage congestion and parking availability on campus, and improve a university’s bottom line.

Improve Service to Students

DPT’s LUKE and SHELBY pay stations provide a range of payment options suitable for on- and off-street university deployments. In addition to coins, bills, credit cards, coupons, and Pay-by-Phone, our pay stations accept campus cards that integrate with campus debit systems. They also support multilingual prompts on a large color LCD screen, making it easier for international students and visiting faculty to interact with the pay station.

Reduce Congestion and Increase Parking Availability

Why struggle to manage congestion and parking availability on campus? By configuring DPT’s pay stations with flexible and dynamically adjustable rates and policies, you can promote proportionate use of parking, encourage optimal occupancy, and reduce congestion due to circling in search of free parking. Also, when compared to single-space meters, our pay stations, operating in Pay-and-Display (PND) or Pay-by-License Plate (PBL) environments, can accommodate more vehicles in the same curb space, thus increasing parking supply and reducing congestion.

Improve the Bottom Line

DPT pay stations and our supporting Enterprise Management System (EMS) backend allow universities to improve their bottom line through increased revenue opportunities and greater operational efficiency. The diverse payment methods supported can increase revenue by 30 percent or more when compared to a coin-only meter. Multi-space meters also incur lower capital and operational costs than gated systems, and can lead to enforcement operations that are 10- to 20-fold more efficient than single-head meters when used in a License-Plate-Enabled Parking (LEP) environment coupled with License Plate Recognition (LPR).