(57) Electronic parking apparatus includes a time metering device into which information
unique to a vehicle to be parked (e.g. a vehicle's licence plate number) can be entered
via, for example, an alpha-numeric keyboard. The entered information is encoded and
stored in machine readable form in a memory store in conjunction with data related
to the time at which the unique information was entered. An electronic device is provided
which is capable of interrogating the memory store by reference to the entered information
unique to a particular vehicle to access the time-related data stored in memory in
conjunction with the unique information appertaining to that vehicle. Thus, for example,
parking fees can be calculated.
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