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PARKING




                                                                            stored in a way where they
                                                                            cannot be connected to an
                                                                            end user. It is encrypted and
            Not all cities are growing in                                   scrubbed off identifiers. The
            a developed manner. Many                                        system can predict what kind
            have cluttered streets,                                         of traffic they should expect
                                                                            in the parking lot in the next
            so how do we make their                                         48 hours and a number of
            parking a sustainable                                           malls use that to figure out
            solution? What will make                                        their own footfalls but if that
            one city use an MLCP and                                        data if given to somebody
            how can the municipality                                        else, it has no value because
            think through to make                                           its already stripped off the
            parking a part of the city’s                                    identifying patterns. In case
            growing culture?                                                of parking, it’s a scale issue,

            – C Damodaran                                                   not an individual one. “We do
                                                                            close to 250,000 transactions
                                                                            a day so we need to be very
                                                                            careful”, he concluded.

                                                                             Sharma hoped the old city
          the initial design of the city,   whenever it is in non-parking   of Jaipur could be maintained
          can be created underground,      zone, to alert the driver. The   as a vehicle-free zone. While
          viz. basement parking under      government should take           appreciating Amsterdam’s
          a public place like a garden     advantage of technology in       cycle culture and Austria’s
          where families come to enjoy     planning at a larger scale, after   beautiful landscaping with
          themselves. If the State can     experimenting with pilots in     parking, she recognized that
          create underground metro         smaller cities, she added.       every country, city and its
          stations, then parking space      Raturi responded on the         population was different.
          should not be an issue, said     query of data privacy saying     Therefore, instead of
          Sharma. Using technology like a   while they do all vulnerable    replicating, one could learn
          search engine to find a parking   and penetration tests (VAPTs),   lessons in city planning. An
          spot is also a great idea.
                                           nobody can guarantee that        integrated approach was
            Another solution is getting    the data cannot be lost to       required to achieve this, she
          the car to beep continuously     a malicious entity. Data are     concluded.                        TT




























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