Computer software and hardware used for real-time on-line and remote control and monitoring of entry and exit lanes, barrier gates, and parking configurations to facilitate vehicle and facility space counting, monitoring, and report generation; for the management of vehicle parking facilities; for the generation of reports concerning facility equipment, including vehicle sensors, vehicle gates, ticket printing machines and smart card readers, and computer systems monitoring and malfunction; for the management of data relating to vehicle parking facility revenue and transactions, vehicle parking activity, employee work and performance, parking fee calculation, parking facility gate activity, parking pass card and debit card validation and invalidation, in/out time data; Computer hardware, namely, access control devices consisting of machine-readable encoded access control cards, smart card readers, smart card reader activity reorders, computerized printing and display apparatus relating to the operation of a vehicle parking facility, electrically controlled motorized vehicle parking gates, ticket printers, ticket readers, vehicle sensors, local and remote unauthorized activity alarms, and remote computerized journal printers of various types to manage and generate reports of parking fees, automatic time and date recorders for imprinting documents with time and date information for the management and control of payroll, time, and attendance and job cost accounting documentation, employee time recording devices with special purpose time and attendance computer software, printer, and data storage apparatus for imprinting employee entry/exit time on employee time cards, computing and printing time worked on employee time and/or payroll cards, storage of employee time information on recording media; employee identification smart cards encoded with machine-readable employee identification information and smart card readers therefor; computer software and hardware used in the preparation and printing of management, payroll, and labor distribution reports for the collection, preparation, and analysis of various employee work-related information and summaries, and used in the data collection, compilation, calculation, automation, preparation and analysis of employee attendance and time data for employee payroll and scheduling purposes and the analysis thereof