Skip to main content

Swarco upgrading parking solutions at Norwegian airports

Swarco in Norway has announced that Avinor, which operates 46 airports in Norway, has extended the framework agreement with Swarco for the supply and upgrade of turnkey parking solutions. Thirteen of the largest Norwegian airports will be equipped with the latest technology from Swarco. According to Swarco Norge director Hans Petter Odegaard, the agreement includes new solutions as well as an upgrade of the existing Skidata parking systems. The overall goal is to meet the latest market requirements by facil
April 13, 2012 Read time: 1 min
129 Swarco in Norway has announced that 4852 Avinor, which operates 46 airports in Norway, has extended the framework agreement with Swarco for the supply and upgrade of turnkey parking solutions. Thirteen of the largest Norwegian airports will be equipped with the latest technology from Swarco.

According to Swarco Norge director Hans Petter Odegaard, the agreement includes new solutions as well as an upgrade of the existing 2226 Skidata parking systems. The overall goal is to meet the latest market requirements by facilitating the use of credit and debit cards in compliance with EMV and PCI standards. All Avinor parking facilities will be equipped with new devices and new software, while a number of new features will also be introduced in the Skidata systems.

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • UK city opts for contactless parking payments
    March 7, 2016
    Bournemouth Council has opted to use WPS’ ParkAdvance IP-based car parking system, including contactless payment card in/card out technology for one of its largest and busiest car parks, Richmond Gardens. Customers are able to wave and pay using a contactless card when accessing the car park; the fee is deducted from the card when the vehicle leaves. As part of the solution, WPS also installed automatic number plate recognition (ANPR), increasing security and intelligently monitoring the flow of traff
  • Parking ticket barcode scanning development
    March 23, 2012
    Metric, together with US partner MobileNow, a leading provider of pay by cell parking services, has introduced what is being claimed as the first commercial parking payment service which allows a barcode printed on a ticket to be remotely scanned for the parking session to be extended.
  • Americans steer away from autonomous parking
    September 22, 2015
    According to a new survey from AAA, nearly 80 per cent of American drivers are confident in their parallel parking abilities and only one-in-four would trust this technology to park their vehicle. Despite this, AAA testing found self-parking technology outperformed unassisted drivers in four key areas. In partnership with the Automobile Club of Southern California's Automotive Research Center, AAA tested self-parking features on five vehicles: a 2015 Lincoln MKC, a 2015 Mercedes-Benz ML400 4Matic, a 2015
  • Activu and Mitsubishi give New Jersey controllers the big picture
    May 27, 2014
    Mitsubishi and Activu team up to help New Jersey emergency centre with real-time situational awareness. Sandy was the largest Atlantic hurricane in recorded history, with winds spanning an area of 1,100 miles and damages estimated at $68 billion. It killed at least 286 people in seven countries, from Jamaica to the Jersey Shore. But tropical storms are not the only challenge for emergency operations up and down the East Coast.