• The Mandarin term “固本” is the transliteration of the English term“coupon”.
• Parking coupons (a type of pre-paid parking ticket) were introduced in the 1980s and widely used. Initially, drivers had to write down the date, time and place of parking on the coupon.
• The coupons subsequently evolved, and drivers were only required to tear off circular tabs on the coupons to indicate the date and time of parking, then display the coupons behind the windscreen for inspection.

Parking app, parking.sg, goes online today and can be used for payment of parking charges at 1,100 coupon-based public carparks islandwide. Most of the motorists interviewed said they would download the app. (Lianhe Wanbao, 1/10/2017)

泊车票 (Hong Kong), 停车单 (Taiwan)