An automated vehicle parking system for a plurality of remote parking
facilities that communicates with a vehicle approaching or leaving the
remote facility with RF signals, or the like, that identifies the vehicle
and sends the vehicle identification number, time of day, and lane number
to a first computer at the remote facility for calculating the parking
cost of a given vehicle based on rates for said given individual vehicle
stored in the first computer of each of the plurality of remote parking
facilities and having a central computer coupled to each remote facility
for providing a single bill to a user of several remote facilities and
advising each remote facility first computer of the total fees due for
all users of that remote facility during specified periods.