Parking in Prague will be guarded by new monitoring cars. You can also pay on the plane
The new supplier was selected in a tender by the municipal company Technical Communications Administration (TSK), which is in charge of Prague’s roads and parking zones. “We get better service at half the cost,” Scheinherr said. The new company is now testing its cars on the streets, the contract will be valid from November 1.
Deputy director of TSK Filip Hájek said that the city company will focus on using the potential of the footage obtained for purposes other than the control of parking zones. According to him, in addition to various defects on the roads or road markings, other uses are also offered, for example the identification of graffiti, illegal encroachments or unmown lawns.
The main task for TSK will be the processing of machine learning algorithms that will process the data. According to Hájek, this should not take long, after all, TSK already carries out similar monitoring itself with the help of mobile phones. He added that the existing 12 cars should be enough to begin with, but it is possible to increase their number. “The contract allows us to expand the number of cars as needed,” he said. One of the cars should pass every road in the metropolis at least once a month.
It will also be possible from September 22 pay for short-term parking in zones via the flyer application. At the same time, TSK will offer the option of integrating parking payments to external servers, which will receive a four percent commission for mediation.
The city will also change the current parking zones website from parkujvklidu.cz to parking.praha.eu. People can log in to their account, where long-term parking permits can be purchased, via their bank identity. “The moment you pay, the parking permit is immediately active. It used to take about three daysScheinherr said. According to Hájek, the goal is that people do not have to go to arrange parking at the offices of city districts at all.
Parking zones in their modern form first appeared in 1996 in a part of Prague 1, where efforts to regulate traffic appeared as early as 1982. They were subsequently expanded and operate in Prague 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 , 9, 10, 13, 16 and 22. The municipality collects around half a billion crowns annually from parking fees.
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Author: Lightning: Daniel Černovský, CNC