The Mangaluru International Airport has further enhanced passengers’ and visitors’ experiences with the introduction of the automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) system.
This forms an important cog in the parking solution, which strives for total digitisation and offers seamless entry and exit of vehicles from the airport with e-payment technology such as FASTag taking care of the payments for the end user.
The MIA spokesperson said that the ANPR system read the number plates of vehicles entering the airport through any of the four lanes at the entry booths.
The boom barrier at the departure booths will automatically open if a vehicle leaves the airport during the allotted free passage duration of 10 minutes. For those who need to park the vehicle beyond this time, one has the option to pay the prescribed parking fee digitally or in cash at the central pay station near the flag post on the lower ground floor.
“The advantage of paying the parking fee at the parking pre-payment counter is that a user gets an additional 10 minutes of buffer time to exit the parking lot by scanning the receipt at the exit booth,” the airport spokesperson said.
“The parking slot is up to 30 minutes, up to two hours, for every additional two hours up to eight hours, and for eight hours up to 24 hours and beyond. This buffer time gives one the leeway of not having to pay the parking fee for the next slot, if applicable”, the spokesperson explained.
If one has chosen the FASTag mode of payment and entered the airport through the FASTag lane (lane two at entry and lane three at exit), such customers too can experience the seamless passage by exiting through the dedicated FASTag lane at the exit as well.
