Scan car

Municipality of Zandvoort

The municipality uses scan cars to perform parking checks. The cameras on the scan car use an image recognition algorithm to 1) recognize license plates and 2) check in the parking rights database whether the vehicle is allowed to park there.

Last change on 12th of July 2024, at 9:26 (CET) | Publication Standard 1.0

• Publication category: Impactful algorithms
• Impact assessment: DPIA
• Status: In use

General information

Theme

Traffic

Begin date

2021-04

Contact information

[e-mail]

Responsible use

Goal and impact

The purpose of the parking scan car is to enforce fiscal ('paid') parking (additional assessment (nha) parking tax).

For the processing of personal data, in the context of the implementation and enforcement of digital license plate parking, the information strictly necessary for this purpose is collected, which aims to enable the following:

a) checking the payment of parking tax;

b) the levy and collection of parking taxes (including additional assessments);

Considerations

Before the introduction of the scan car, each suspicious vehicle required individual follow-up by a parking warden/BOA during enforcement. With this method, enforcement is laborious and this is at the expense of the enforcement pressure. With the next step in digital enforcement, the automatic imposition with the help of a desk force, a major efficiency improvement is achieved and the enforcement pressure can increase significantly. In this way, Zandvoort can be successful in realizing its objectives in terms of liveability and (traffic) safety.

Human intervention

After linking the scanned license plate by the algorithm to the Parking Rights Database, it becomes clear whether or not there is a valid parking right. If it is determined that a vehicle does not have a valid parking right, an assessment by human intervention takes place.

Risk management

Disruption in the chain can lead to an incorrect query/assessment of a license plate, a human check has been included in the process to limit/prevent these errors.

Legal basis

The Municipal Act states that the municipal council may establish regulations regarding the levy and collection of parking taxes. These are laid down in the current regulation on the levy and collection of parking taxes. This tax regulation states that taxes must be paid for the use of public space and where taxes must be paid.

Links to legal bases

Artikelen 156, eerste en tweede lid, aanhef en onderdeel h, en artikel 225 van de Gemeentewet en de Verordening op de heffing en invordering van parkeerbelastingen 2024: https://wetten.overheid.nl/jci1.3:c:BWBR0005416&titeldeel=III&hoofdstuk=IX&artikel=156&z=2024-01-31&g=2024-01-31

Impact assessment

Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA)

Operations

Data

License plate, parking right (NPR), parking space (kaart.zandvoort.nl)

Technical design

The scan car scans a license plate, the license plate is queried in the parking rights database (NPR), if rights are found the registration is deleted, if no rights are found the photos taken, the location data, time, date and vehicle data (RDW) are linked to the license plate and offered as 1 registration to the desk force (Citycontrol) where the registration is assessed by an enforcement officer, after assessment the enforcement officer can impose a surcharge or a warning or reject the registration in case of inaccuracies.

External provider

Sigmax/ ACI SCANACAR