City of Kent Parking Management System - Parking Management Center Functionality

Subsystem Description

The 'Parking Management Center' manages one or more parking lots by providing configuration and control of field infrastructure, user account management and interfaces with financial systems to manage payment. This p–object takes the back office portion of the Parking Management System's functionality as it was defined in ARC–IT 8.3 and prior.

Functional Object: Parking Account and Fee Management

'Parking Account and Fee Management' manages parking fare collection at the Parking Management Center. It provides the back office functions that support control of field parking management systems, supporting payment reconciliation with links to financial institutions. It loads fee data into field systems when those systems are initialized or whenever such information is modified.

Functional Object: Parking Data Collection

'Parking Data Collection' collects and stores parking information that is collected in the course of parking system operations. This data can be used directly by operations personnel or it can be made available to other data users and archives in the region.