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SMART MOBILITY CONFERENCE

To highlight challenges and synonyms, the moderator invited
opportunities in Public Parking, Saugat Mahapatra, CEO and
the Superintendent Engineer of Co-Founder of Barrel Scope
Municipal Corporation of Delhi Solutions, a technology startup
(MCD), S L Bairwa presented his focused on advanced Parking
views backed with more than 30 solutions. His company, Barrel
years of experience delivering on Scope, while processing more than
ground projects that has brought four million vehicles per month,
benefits to citizens. He quipped addresses three 3 major challenges
that despite receiving a lot of flak in parking namely Time, Money
from public, they have delivered and Accountability. The firm also
a staggering 386 numbers of manages India’s first FASTag based
infrastructure in New Delhi that parking solution. If we line up all
can accommodate 44,000 four cars next to
wheelers, 32,000 two wheelers and Through the use of advanced each other in
more than 1700 buses at a single ANPR and automated Boom
instance. Barriers, there is saving in time as New Delhi, we
queue time is reduced significantly will cover more
Bairwa also stressed on the need at both Entry and Exit points.
to understand that traditional area than all
method of adding more parking lots By using the FASTag wallet and of New York
is not necessarily the right or the RFID technology, parking fee city. Hence,
only solution to meet the growing is deducted automatically thus
demand for parking. He proposed reducing cash transaction and regular parking
that both private and government physical contact. Statistically, when lots may not
sector should work together to parking lots move from traditional be the answer
consider avant-garde options such hand written slip or token system to
as separate office hours for private automated digital system, the daily but innovative
and government sector for instance collections go up by about 27% parking solutions
so that there is no such concept as thus plugging a huge revenue loss are...
peak traffic hours. Dynamic parking due to cash handling leakage.
rate at different times of the day and In a free flow non gated parking S L Bairwa
different day of the week is another solution, identification of vehicle Delhi Municipal
suggestion made by him which he and deduction of fee can happen Corporation
feels could create the necessary without physically stopping the
impetus in reducing parking woes vehicle. Implementation of this
for both commuters and authorities.
technology requires strong support
In a country where Innovation from Policy makers and real estate
and Startups have almost become owners.

We have witnessed 27% increase in
revenue collection after implementation
of our automated cashless parking
system.

Saugat Mahapatra
Barrel Scope Solutions

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