A parking slot on Ly Thuong Kiet in Hanoi (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - An automated car parking technology will be piloted on twostreets in the capital city in the second quarter of this year.
Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung hasinstructed the city’s Department of Transport to pilot the iParking technology forcar parking management on Ly Thuong Kiet and Tran Hung Dao Streets.
The project is part of efforts to improve urban order bymonitoring the number of vehicles using parking lots and preventing the lack oftransparency in collecting parking fees, he said at a recent meeting with thecity’s Steering Committee on Traffic Safety.
Nguyen Tuan Duc, head of the department’s urban transportinfrastructure division, said earlier last week that the concerned units,including the technology provider, have been informed of the project.
“We will try to finish the venue scouting and planning phrase byMarch 30 so we can start applying the new system on April 1,” he said.
Under the project, surveillance cameras will be installed at theparking lots, recording the number of vehicles, their parking duration and thenumber of parking slots available. The information will be relayed to a dataprocessing centre.
A sensor device will be attached to the camera poles to readelectronic parking cards and record vehicles’ information – such as licensenumber, vehicle type, time-in and time-out.
Parking fees will be calculated based on parking duration, whichvehicle parkers can pay in cash or via bank transfer.
“The system will inform drivers on the availability of parkingslots on each street, which will not only help save time and resources but alsoreduce traffic,” a representative of the technology provider said.
The technique of angle parking has been piloted on Ly Thuong Kietand Tran Hung Dao streets. However, since this takes up a large road surfacearea, the department plans to repaint the roads so vehicles will park straightalong the streets under the new system, according to Duc.
The automated parking system would stabilise parking fees andgradually replace the traditional vehicle watching services, he said.
During the initial phase, the technology provider would transferthe technology and provide training for staff of the Hanoi Parking Company, headded. After that the system would be managed and operated by the city, hesaid.
There are currently some 1,100 parking lots in the city, and 200of these operate on the roads with people watching the vehicles and collectingfees.-VNA
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A parking slot on Ly Thuong Kiet in Hanoi (Photo: VNA) 
