PRESS RELEASE

Government Agencies to Conduct Trials on digital payment of parking charges

In line with our vision to become a Smart Nation, the Government is developing a digital parking mobile application to allow motorists to pay parking charges through their mobile devices.

2 The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) and Housing & Development Board (HDB), in partnership with the Government Technology Agency of (GovTech), are developing a mobile application for motorists to use at public car parks that currently use paper coupons.

3 The mobile app will provide more convenience for motorists as they need not return to their vehicles to add more coupons to extend their parking session. The benefits of the app include:

● Paying for parking digitally: Motorists can use the app to key in their vehicle number, select the car park, indicate their parking duration and start parking.

● Calculating parking charges automatically: The app automatically calculates the charges that motorists have to pay based on their parking duration on a per minute basis. A refund will be given if motorists choose to end their parking session earlier.

● Extending parking session remotely: The app allows motorists to track the validity of their parking session. They can extend the duration of their parking session at their own time and convenience.

4 A trial will be conducted among public sector officers from May to June 2017 to test the functionalities of the app at selected public car parks in the city area. During this period, we will test the app, especially the payment module, to be confident of its robustness before we extend the trial to the general public. With the feedback gathered from the trial, the agencies will improve the app for better user experience. Please refer to Annex A for the list of participating public car parks. 5 The plan is to extend the trial to members of the public later this year. More details of the public trial will be announced later.

6 As part of our Smart Nation and Digital Government efforts, the Government will continually experiment with new ways of using technology to improve the quality of lives of citizens. This will involve taking in user feedback early in the product development cycle through various trials and enhancing the product with new features along the way. This agile and iterative way of developing government digital products will enable the Government to push out innovations to benefit citizens quicker.

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JOINTLY ISSUED BY URBAN REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, HOUSING & DEVELOPMENT BOARD AND GOVERNMENT TECHNOLOGY AGENCY OF SINGAPORE.

DATE OF ISSUANCE: 15 MAY 2017

MEDIA CONTACTS:

For URA

Jolene HOON (Ms) Executive Manager, Media Relations Tel: 6329 3251 Email: [email protected]

For HDB

Jeanne TAN (Ms) Senior Manager, Media Relations Tel: 6490 1250 Email: [email protected]

For GovTech

Teresa TAN (Ms) Senior Manager, Communications and Marketing Group Tel: 6211 1745 Email: [email protected]

Elizabeth LEE (Ms) Assistant Manager, Communications and Marketing Group Tel: 6211 1267 Email: [email protected]

Annex A – List of participating car parks

Participating URA car parks No. Car park name 1 AMOY STREET 2 ANN SIANG ROAD 3 ARMENIAN ST / CANNING RISE OFF STREET 4 ARMENIAN STREET 5 6 BANDA STREET / OFF STREET 7 8 9 10 CANNING RISE OFF STREET (MCYS-LAND) 11 CARPENTER STREET 12 CHENG YAN PLACE 13 CIRCULAR ROAD 14 CLEMENCEAU AVE 15 16 CLUB STREET OFF STREET 17 COOK STREET 18 DUXTON ROAD 19 EMERALD HILL ROAD 20 EMERALD LINK 21 ENGGOR STREET 22 FORT CANNING PARK A OFF STREET (NPARKS) 23 FORT CANNING PARK B OFF STREET (NPARKS) 24 FORT CANNING PARK C OFF STREET (NPARKS) 25 GEMMILL LANE 26 HONG KONG STREET 27 HULLET ROAD 28 29 30 LIANG SEAH STREET 31 LORONG TELOK 32 MANILA STREET 33 MCCALLUM STREET 34 MIDDLE ROAD OFF STREET 35 MND SURFACE CARPARK 36 37 MT EMILY ROAD 38 No. Car park name 39 NEW MARKET ROAD 40 NIVEN ROAD 41 NORTH CANAL ROAD 42 PALMER ROAD 43 44 PENANG LANE 45 PHILLIP STREET 46 PRINSEP STREET (MIDDLE ROAD / ROCHOR CANAL) 47 PURVIS STREET 48 QUEEN STREET 49 RAFFLES BOULEVARD COACH PARK 50 SAUNDERS ROAD 51 SEAH STREET 52 SERVICE ROAD BET LIANG SEAH STREET / MIDDLE ROAD 53 SERVICE ROAD OFF QUEEN ST(QUEEN / WATERLOO ST) 54 SHORT STREET 55 SOPHIA ROAD 56 STANLEY STREET 57 TAN QUEE LAN STREET 58 ROAD 59 60 61 TEMPLE STREET 62 63 TEO HONG ROAD/ OFF STREET 64 65 UPPER CIRCULAR ROAD 66 UPPER HOKKIEN STREET 67 WALLICH STREET 68 WATERLOO STREET 69 WILKIE ROAD 70 YAN KIT ROAD

Participating HDB car parks No. Car park name 1 BLK 2 BEACH ROAD 2 BLK 3 BEACH ROAD 3 BLK 7 NORTH BRIDGE ROAD 4 BLK 18/19 JALAN SULTAN 5 BLK 10 NORTH BRIDGE ROAD 6 BLK 10 SELEGIE ROAD CAR PARK No. Car park name 7 BLK 8, 9 SELEGIE ROAD CAR PARK 8 BLK 4/5/6 JALAN MINYAK CAR PARK 9 KIM PONG ROAD 10 KERBSIDE TIONG BAHRU EST 11 BLK 77, 72, 71 & 58 SENG POH ROAD 12 BLK 81 TIONG POH ROAD/KENG KIAT STREET 13 BLK 79 PENG NGUAN STREET/CHAY YAN STREET 14 BLK 78 & 79 YONG SIAK STREET/MOH GUAN TERRACE