Choose the right: Big difference on the price in the parking apps

'good-Bye to the p-ticket. The future is digital'.

the Text has long adorned a wide variety of the copenhagen parkeringsautomater, and the first dilemma, this future places us in, is how we would pay for our parking. While the physical ticket has been relegated to the history books, we have gained a wealth of options, all include to touch a whole lot on a screen.

Alone in the city of Copenhagen are six different smartphone apps approved to help with the payment, and the price you ultimately pay for its parking, depends a great part of which one you use.

It turns out a major review, which bilistorganisationen FDM has made.

FDM has put five of the approved apps to the test in several parkeringssituationer in both Copenhagen and Aarhus. The five all use different pricing models to obtain a reward for their help, and according to bilisorganisationen are therefore different parkeringssituationer.

- It is not possible to declare a winner, for the prices vary according to time and place and the fees for each app. Therefore, one can with advantage download more parkeringsapps and switch between them instead of using the same all the time, "says FDM's legal advisor, Dennis Long, to the FDM.dk.

Where EasyPark and ParkMan put a fee on, respectively, 15 and 10 percent (+3 crowns) top of the parking price, is the fee fixed 4 and 3,95 dollars at ParkOne and WayToPark.

In the fifth app, ParkPark, there is no fixed or procentvist fee, but in return, you will pay according to the FDM per. commenced neighborhood instead of pr. minute, as is the case with the competitors.

The less flexible payment model means that ParkPark becomes the most expensive option in the first parkeringssituation, where the FDM's test park in 20 minutes in the red zone in Copenhagen. $ 18 is the cost of ParkPark, while WayToPark doing the discipline to 15,95 dollars as the cheapest alternative.

Aarhus is the ParkPark, in turn, the cheapest with 6 crowns to 8 crowns at EasyPark and ParkOne.

When the test subject put in the longer time, begins the difference to become apparent. At exactly one hour on Wednesday, between the hours of 17 and 18 can thus save 6,60 kroner in Copenhagen's red zone and 4,20 kroner in Aarhus to choose the cheapest solution rather than the most expensive.

Both the Copenhagen and Aarhus are ParkPark cheapest with respectively 36 and 12 dollars for the parking. The payment model means, however, that with this app is important to reach back to the car before 18:01, if it is to remain the cheapest option.

EasyPark is the most expensive option by exactly one hour parking in Copenhagen, while it is ParkMan in Aarhus. By the use of both apps, however, that parking will not be much more expensive that the bell is 18:01, before you are back at the car.