How a car park becomes a revenue source: planning, rates, day-to-day operation, and the commercial side of layout. Every guide describes the mechanism rather than quoting figures, because each facility sets its own rates.
A parking business sells time, not space: a driver pays for the period their car occupies a bay. Three numbers decide the revenue: how many bays you have, how full they get, and at what rate. The second is the one most often ignored.
Planning a paid car park does not start with the rate. First you need to know when your facility fills and when it empties across a week, because that curve is what tells you which model works: hourly, daily, monthly, or all three at once.
Running paid parking properly rests on three decisions: who gets in, how they pay, and what happens when they do not. If all three have a clear answer and every session is recorded, the rest is detail.
Parking layout has two sides. One is regulatory: dimensions, clearances, ramps and safety, which your designer and the applicable norms decide. The other is commercial: those same decisions determine what the car park earns for years afterwards. This guide is about the second.