There isn't really any update to progress at the moment, I would say this project has moved into a detailed analysis of the market phase, proof of concept has basically been completed I have been able to demonstrate the basic concept to some people within this industry and they loved the idea. I now need to demonstrate with real facts why and how this could be a huge financial benefit to the industry.
I am still number crunching and awaiting more replies from many UK councils but it does seem like the average fees paid to use mobile parking solutions with a credit card are around 8-10% of total revenue as previously thought.
It is a real challenge to figure this data out as each reply seems to have a different costs setup.
So far I have received around 35 responses out of 120 to Freedom of Information Requests, This data is for the period between April 2015-April 2016
1) Total Revenue: £23.6 million
2) Total Number of Transactions: 9.5million
3) Cost to Car Park Operator (Card Processing and Service fees paid to mobile solution provider and/or directly to card processor by the car park operator): £2.2 million
4) Cost to Car Park User (Estimated Additional fees paid by car park users for using a mobile parking solution): £1.9 million
Note for Number 3: This should be "Cost of operating a mobile parking solution", regardless of whether the user or operator paid for it. I expect this to increase by around 50%, the fees paid in number 4 are either paid to the car park operator or the mobile parking solution provider depending on their specific costs setup, I still need to go over this data again to ascertain who gets this.
Based on the information collated so far I believe PKB could reduce this cost by around 70-80%
Looks like an interesting project! There is also another crypto project named Parkcoin, based in Berlin. I have talked to their founders and mentioned Parkbyte. They might be interested in collaborating.
Link please? Google isn't turning up anything for Parkcoin.
edit: wait, nevermind
https://www.f6s.com/parkcoinInteresting, I wouldn't mind discussing with them about how they aim to achieve their concept. From the information on that link I can see there being issues with adoption due to the ticketing data possibly being on a public blockchain, this data can be very controversial to the public and is in most parts commercially sensitive information.
It is however a good idea to have a decentralized backend and database, I have considered doing this with PKB in the future.