More than 4 in 5 motorists dislike utilizing car-parking apps, in response to new analysis by Autocar.

In a survey of 1387 UK-based motorists, 83% most popular to make use of money or contactless card funds to park as a result of they don’t like having to obtain so many apps, fear about on-line fraud, or discover that lots of the apps are too difficult.

Only 14% of individuals most popular parking apps to bodily fee machines; most frequently citing comfort of paying by way of an app as the principle profit.

There are 30 totally different parking apps throughout the nation, prompting considerations about ageism from campaigners, such because the over-60s marketing campaign group Silver Voices.

Its director, Dennis Reed, mentioned aged and susceptible individuals wrestle to obtain and navigate the plethora of apps essential to park and describes the choice to desert pay-and-display machines as “blatant ageism”.

Autocar editor Mark Tisshaw added: “The British public clearly imagine there are just too lots of them and they are often very difficult to make use of.

“The Government’s proposal to streamline the parking app system into a single point of access will be welcomed by many.”

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Transport Secretary Mark Harper unveiled plans in October 2023 to launch a nationwide parking platform, which might streamline the method of utilizing apps to pay for parking. More than half (54%) of the Autocar survey respondents mentioned that they supported the initiative.