There will be new monitoring cars in Prague, parking will be paid for in Lítačka — ČT24 — Czech Television
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. The new company is now testing its cars on the streets, the contract will be valid from November 1.
Deputy Director of the Technical Administration of Communications, 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 communications managers will be to create machine learning algorithms that will process the data. According to Hájek, this should not take long, after all, the administration itself already carries out similar monitoring with the help of mobile phones. He added that the existing twelve cars should be enough for a start, 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.
New website and login
From September 22, it will also be possible to pay for short-term parking in the zones via the lyatačka application. At the same time, the technical administration of communications will offer the possibility of integrating parking payments to external servers, which will receive a four percent commission for mediation.
The city will also change the current website of parking zones from parkujklidu.cz on parking.praha.eu. People can log in to their account, where long-term parking permits can be purchased, via their bank identity. 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.