9 technical apparatus and devices for operating parking areas, namely, electrotechnical and electronic apparatus for dispensing and/or collecting parking cards, electric and electronic apparatus for reading parking cards, telecameras, micropocessor based remote control electronic gates for entrance and access control; emergency call devices, namely, sirens, telephones; card shaped recording carriers, namely, data writable cards and tokens, cards with integrated chip used as parking cards; and charging devices therefore, namely, cash registers, computer hardware and software for operating parking card dispenser and parking card collecting apparatus; apparatus, devices and instruments for traffic guiding, namely, traffic lights; induction loops, and electric and electronic apparatus for counting cars entering and leaving a parking lot