Accessibility

Parking in urban areas

Off-street parking facilities (PFs) have a positive impact on the quality of life in urban areas and in large cities in particular. After all, a city is more attractive if it is easily accessible while having fewer cars parked on streets and town squares. With our PFs and services, we contribute to the accessibility of vital functions.

Some visitors prefer to travel as close as possible to their final destination by car and are willing to pay for that service, others opt for a more economic journey including Park+Ride or Park+Walk.

Inner-ring purpose-built PFs particularly enhance accessibility while maintaining mobility and access for all. They reduce inner-city search traffic and on-street parking which, in turn, improves the liveability for residents and visitors alike.

With purpose-built PFs at varying distances from the city centre and with varying parking tariff schemes, Q-Park contributes to:

• accessibility to amenities such as public transport, hospitals, shops and events

• decreasing traffic searching for a place to park

• freeing up public space for urban parks and town squares

• creating opportunities to reduce on-street parking

• nudging motorists to make informed choices

• creating sustainable parking solutions

• decreasing subsidised parking, by pursuing the 'user pays' principle

We select strategic locations

We capture value through our portfolio of purpose-built and off-street PFs at strategic locations: in or near multifunctional inner-city areas, at or near major transport stations, and at hospitals.

In cities where we operate three to five or more car parks, we become a highly efficient parking operator and effective mobility partner. Engaging in meaningful dialogue with other parking and mobility partners, including:

• providers of parking route information systems

• urban planners on capacity and routing traffic

• shared mobility and public transport providers

• landlords to efficiently operate their car parks

• parking tariff policy makers

With our integrated and connected expertise, municipalities can take multiple measures to:

• reduce traffic searching for a place to park

• improve air quality and reduce emissions

• provide for sufficient parking capacity and proper usage, both on- and off-street

• create a more liveable urban environment

Multiple contract types

We work with a range of contract types to provide value for our stakeholders.

• We capture value for public and private landlords by offering a range of contract types and value propositions.

• We operate PFs that we own, have in concession or lease contract, and we manage PFs under management contracts too.

• We also have control fee contracts in our portfolio, ensuring that parking capacity is used according to set rules and regulations.

Results

We operate in seven Western European countries: Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium, UK, Ireland and Denmark where we are present in 549 cities (2024: 368), excluding the cities where we only have control free contracts.

Following several acquisitions in 2025, we now have a total of 5,573 PFs with 1,237,940 PSs in our portfolio, compared to 5,506 PFs with 1,201,852 PSs in 2024.

Note: We have adjusted the reported portfolio numbers for 2024 to now include the SAGS acquisition which was completed in December 2024.

We manage more than 3,687 control fee contracts, serving more than 186,178 PSs which are regulated by private or public parking rules and regulations, and controlled by our Parking Attendants.

The following chart visualises our portfolio of PFs between operational, management and control fee business.

Chart 20 Percentage portfolio distribution PFs

We continue to consolidate our presence in the cities in which we operate. We now have three or more PFs in 138 cities and five or more in 77 cities compared to 89 and 51 respectively in 2024.

While the control fee portfolio accounts for the largest share of PFs in our total portfolio (66%), analysing the number of PSs, shows our operational and management portfolio to be 85% of our parking spaces.

The following chart visualises our portfolio of PSs between operational, management and control fee business.

Chart 21 Percentage portfolio distribution PSs

The table shows the numbers of PFs and PSs in the various contract forms.

Table 1 Q-Park portfolio in contract types