NEW CONCEPT OF ON-STREET PARKING REGULATION IN , CZE

SUCCESSFULL IMPLEMENTATION OF SMART TECHNOLOGIES INTO ON-STREET PARKING REGULATION, USE AND ENFORCEMENT

PRAGUE | Category 3 – On-street parking projects| EPA Awards 2019 PRAGUE - QUICK CITY OVERVIEW

capital of population 17th largest area automobilisation 1.294.513 city in EU 49,613 hectars 652 / 1.000 inhab.

200.000 the busiest road section modal split commuters every day 136.000 vehicles / day

automobilisation in Prague 700 walking 600 26% public transport 500 bike 42% 400 1% 300 public 200 car inhabitants transport 100 29% & car 0

2% 1.000 per vehicles of number

PRAGUE | Category 3 – On-street parking projects| EPA Awards 2019 PARKING REGULATION TIMELINE

1979 1997 2014 2018 1996 2008 2016

first parking after the expansion & new national new concept in regulation Velvet expansion new concept new concept legislation full operation policy Revolution first use

Very differenf from New operator, basis of Parking policy The regulation Political desicion to First use of the new Old contracts to today setting. Parking the zoning system adjustments – parking expands to three new full scale upgrade of concept in the newly operate parking cards for locals, Prague has today. fees are profit of the city districts. the technological & joined city districts. regulation in 4 city guarded parking lots Parking fees are profit municipality, thanks processional City and operator is districts expire. New for visitors with staff of the private to new national law. background of on- debugging the fresh operator takes over charging them. operator. street parking system. and establishes the Only the historic city Since this year, the regulation system in new concept. All center regulated. regulation is called the city. parking regulation The Paid Parking operated by one city PRAGUE | Category 3 – On-street parking projects| EPA Awards 2019 Zones. company. WHAT IS NEW IN PARKING REGULATION IN PRAGUE?

NEW TYPES OF PARKING ENFORCEMENT USER-FRIENDLINESS PERMITS • city owned centralised • online parking permit • disabled users IT system (CIS – Central renewal (new permits • family caretakers Information System) are still issued at the • carsharing distribution points due that collects all sorts of • possibility to to legal requirements) data required for temporary changes the operation of the • new payment vehicle‘s plate number regulation application in the parking permit • camera monitoring • end of paper parking (e.g. due to vehicles - third party cards and parking maintanance) vehicles monitoring meter tickets streets with camera • new parking meters cars • upgraded enforcement and penalisation process

PRAGUE | Category 3 – On-street parking projects| EPA Awards 2019 The New concept of digitalized on-street parking took place in city districts where it has been established for the first time in 2016 (, and Prague 8). City districts , , and had a parking regulation before. They moved to the New concept when the previous operators contracts expired (September 2017 and January 2018). Parking regulation now covers over 100.000 parking places (January 2019).

PRAGUE | Category 3 – On-street parking projects| EPA Awards 2019 ROAD SIGNS

resident parking visitors parking mixed parking (residents + visitors)

PRAGUE | Category 3 – On-street parking projects| EPA Awards 2019 NEW PAYMENT FACILITIES

Mobile payment app • Third party web appplication. • Payments with debit/credit cards, and CCS cards. • Works in many other cities in Czech Republic. The web application runs on all mobile phones, tablets and PSs, on Windows, Android and iOS. No need to install an app.

Parking meters Parkeon Strada Mobile payment is getting more and more popular among users.

PRAGUE | Category 3 – On-street parking projects| EPA Awards 2019 THREE STEP ENFORCEMENT AND PENALISATION

Data collection Monitoring vehicles run the city streets scanning the vehicles‘ registration plate numbers and on-line check them in the Central Information System (CIS).

Offence confirmation The CIS collects the ’’no-respect’’ cases to later provide them to the municipal Cameras of the roof of the monitoring car police offce for further confirmation (in compliance with Czech legislation). ↘ InfraRed for scanning the number plates → Visible spectrum camera for overview

Executive act / penalty After the confirmation by the municipal police office the offences are passed down to the local administration authority office (city districts) who then issue the penalisation to the vehicle operator (in compliance with Czech legislation). The financial means collected from fines are profit of the city district. A view from the monitoring camera car PRAGUE | Category 3 – On-street parking projects| EPA Awards 2019 NEW SPECIFIC PARKING PERMITS

Some parking permits are possible to distribute or use only thanks to the digitalisation.

Parking permit for disabled Parking permit for carsharing persons & their caretakers

A long term parking permit similar to a resident‘s permit This parking permit allows carsharing vehicles to park for for persons with disabilities. Unlike the resident‘s permit, free and for unlimited time in regulated parking areas just this one is only valid only on a small number of streets and only when the vehicle is out of reservation (isn‘t used close to home or job address. No need for permanent by a user). When the vehicle is being used and parks, the residence required by law. user has to pay a regular parking fee. A parking permit can be issued to those who frequently The parking enforcement is given the information about care about persons with limited mobility or others health reservations of each car via a direct connection between issues. It is a powerfull tool for family members. carsharing companies and the city owned system. Digital platform provides a possibility to issue the parking The City of Prague in a cooperation with the Czech permit to a custom-made limited areas to prevent its Carsharing Association developed a tool to view and misuse. reserve the shared vehicles that are currently not used.

PRAGUE | Category 3 – On-street parking projects| EPA Awards 2019 OPEN DATA PLATFORM

The digital platform of parking regulation lets the city to distribute periodically updated open data online to everyone who is interested. The open data can serve for analytical purposes or to be used by individuals and companies for developing their own applications.

The city of Prague provides a dataset with historical data on on-street paid visitors parking and map data with locations and other valuable attributes on Park&Ride parking lots, on-street parking regulation street segments (useful for new map/payment applications), parking meters, parking places for the disabled users etc.

The city also provides a free API connectivity on data related to parking. New third party applications can then show current occupancy of disabled- only parking places, occupancy on Park&Ride parking lots and new data on visitors short term parking.

OPEN MAP DATA OPEN STAT / API DATA

PRAGUE | Category 3 – On-street parking projects| EPA Awards 2019