Elite parking machine

Market driven requirements are behind the launch of the Elite version of the Aura, part of Metric Group's range of pay and display parking and payment machines.

January 30, 2012 Read time: 1 min

Market driven requirements are behind the launch of the Elite version of the Aura, part of 92 Metric Group's range of pay and display parking and payment machines. A significant change is the Elite's full QWERTY alpha numeric keypad. The industrial keypad is used for entering data into the machine for payments against a vehicle registration or reference number, a growing trend in parking. The unit caters for all possible payment options including coins, bank notes, credit, debit or contactless cards, e-purse and smartcards.

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Nottingham orders 200 Metric Aura Elite parking meters

Nottingham City Council in the UK has placed an order for 200 Aura Elite pay and display parking meters manufactured by the Metric Group to replace their existing on and off street equipment. Metric, the UK’s only pay and display parking machine manufacturer, says it won the order against strong European competition. The first phase of a delivery programme for installation of the 195 solar and five mains Elite’s for on and off street parking in Nottingham will start before the end of the year.

September 28, 2012

Metric Parking success

November 29, 2012

Metric parking wins

Metric Parking has been successful in winning orders for their pay and display parking machines in the UK and is to supply three local authorities in the south-west of England with their popular Elite pay and display machines. Bristol City Council has ordered the machines for on-street resident parking schemes in the city, using coin operated machines which will have an alpha numeric keypad for vehicle registration entry and will be networked through the Metric ASLAN web back office system.

April 13, 2012

First Elites for New Zealand

Elite pay and display parking machines manufactured by Metric Group in the UK have been shipped for the first time to New Zealand. The Aura Elites were ordered by Metric Parking’s distributor Automated Solutions who have implemented a marketing strategy for New Zealand. Metric has also received an order from its Australian distributor TMA for a total of 26 machines, 11 of which are for a hospital. The remainder have been ordered by TMA for stock. The New Zealand and Australia orders follow another export

February 2, 2012

Developments in cashless parking payment

Amongst a total of nine pay and display parking machines on the Metric stand at Traffex will be an Aura cashless machine as well as the brand-new Metric Mobile that allows customers to pay on their mobile phone using a credit or debit card.

April 17, 2012

Metric wins New Jersey parking machine order after successful pilot

Metric Parking, a subsidiary of Hoeft & Wessel Group, has been awarded a contract with the US city of Hoboken, New Jesey, to supply 135 car parking ticket machines. During a successful 10-machine pilot project last year, the city saw a 30 per cent increase in revenue and additional parking spaces. These spaces were created by moving from the traditional single space meters to pay and display. Hoboken found that they are fitting two to three more cars on a given block with nearly half of all transactions now