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PARKING
and a mobility vision with
sustainability thrown in.
Erecting MLCPs, acquiring
space from promoters or We have collaborated with
incentivising people to use the Municipal Corporation
public transportation, were of Ayodhya and
some options suggested. implemented RFID-based
solutions for four and two
Raturi recommended use of
technology to utilize existing wheelers, integrating them
space inventory. ValetEZ with FasTag and stickers
can predict future parking that can be recognized by
utilisation in locations wherever ANPR cameras. I am not
the systems are running, seeing any other solution
based on past records. With rather than camera-based
the help of systems which solution for roadside
are not very centralized and parking. Innovation is
more democratized using required in this space.
hand-held devices, kiosks in
the right spots and city-wide – Sachin Kumar
plans with cameras which can
do automatic slot detection,
his company can build the long more time being parked than be educated that parking
tail of the inventory - the minor otherwise. The vehicles enter is a convenience which has
inventory which identifies five and exit quickly and it has a been provided by the city
parking slots here, ten there huge impact on the traffic infrastructure and needs to be
etc. and bring them together to outside, reducing congestion. paid for. Government agencies
create a much larger pool. The parking guidance system expect revenue out of parking.
Since space is otherwise allows people to find parking Multiple agencies including the
utilized especially within the much faster, makes for quicker traffic department, Municipal
CBDs or the CEDs, this small decision-making and speeds up Corporation and smart cities
dispersed parking inventory is the whole process, he added. groups which are now working
brought together on a digital ParkMont was working in silos, must collaborate for
platform. “The physical space on solutions that did not better urban planning. “As
is turned digital and we are require human intervention technology providers, we can
able to show that to the users in the parking area, said just provide a solution but
and say, this is where you are Kumar. Cashless transactions implementation lies with all the
and this is where you can go whether FasTag or UPI- departments”.
and park.” based are implemented in “Everyone talks about Tier 1
It is easier to do this B2B malls but the challenge was cities but we have to inculcate
with commercial buildings in roadside parking. While this parking behaviour in people
and big tech parks. There are RFID gun-based solutions are in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities also,
multiple places where people more suitable for roadside so when they come to bigger
can park but the amount of parking, the fee cannot get cities, they know that there is
time spent just to find that slot deducted immediately as it dedicated parking place”, said
is difficult. ValetEZ was the first is not linked to any cashless Sharma. Technology can play a
to use FasTag as a payment facility like FasTag as there is large role as it is not humanly
method for parking. It reduced no government approval for possible to manage the huge
ingress and egress times, which such use for open parking. population and traffic in cities.
meant that the vehicle spent He felt the public needs to Parking, if not provided for in
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