About the NPP
The NPP is a not-for-profit, open platform that connects multiple parking service providers to thousands of locations nationwide. Instead of asking drivers to download another app, it integrates the ones they already use, making parking simple, seamless, and consistent everywhere.
Created by the Department for Transport and now run independently, the NPP is governed by Local Authorities, service providers, and the British Parking Association — ensuring it grows based on collaboration and real-world feedback.
Payment for parking is lagging behind developments in other markets and industries. Parking customers, both on-street and in car parks, face a fragmented market offering a wide variety of payment options making the simple act of parking and paying complex and confusing as options are dependent on where they want to park and which payment app they have (or don’t have). The National Parking Platform (NPP) is a local authority owned and DfT funded pilot project that brings customer experience into the 21st century by facilitating data exchange, digital payments, and a new way of delivering better parking and mobility services.
In essence, the NPP:
- Provides a simplified and improved customer journey from start to finish for the end-customer
- Creates a centralised and cost-efficient system supplying data to councils that can inform present and future strategic decisions
- Enables a competitive, innovative market by allowing systems to communicate with each other via open data standards and interfaces (APDS/ISO TS 5206-1)
- Is a publicly owned, not for profit, national facility that enables Parking Operators (public and private) to communicate digitally with Service Providers.
About this Site
This website is meant for companies who are considering to join the NPP ecosystem, be it as a Parking Service Provider or a Connected Supplier (e.g. enforcement system provider).
It provides an initial set of documents that helps you assessing what it would take your organisation to speak the NPP's data language: the APDS-based API.