Paying for Parking over SMS

Alexander the Great would have been very proud hearing this. Citizens of Skopje( Macedonia) are going to be able to pay for parking place over SMS sent from their mobile phones to special numbers, City’s Directorate reported. Both tickets and automats will also be used be used for paying. Mr. Ljupcho Jordanov, director of public enterprise City Parking met Mr. Matej Kraljevic, director of Zagreb Parking in Zagreb recently. They were discussing about implementation of zonal parking and payment in the capital of Croatia. Our public enterprise has been working on defining parking zones already by the models used by Zagreb, Belgrade and many European cities. According to the announcements, drivers that would like to pay for parking should send SMS to the number that should be additionally defined by the City Parking. The message should contain license plate number and the zone they want to park in. They will receive replies containing a confirmation saying that the payment has been done and also some info about the parking time limit on the parking place.
[Via Metamorphosis]