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Scan car
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- Impactful algorithms
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General information
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Responsible use
Goal and impact
The aim is to ensure proper compliance. This translates into parking regulation in the paid zones: the right parker in the right place. The software is designed to recognise license plates and check for parking rights. The system checks for acquired parking rights. This can be a permit or a short-term parking right via payment at the parking machine or parking app. The supervisor (further parking controller) receives only the license plates of vehicles that do not have a parking right.
The programming of the software makes it possible to run reports on willingness to pay, occupancy rate, visitor rate, number of scans and type of scans. The purpose of the reports is to monitor results. These are results linked to the municipality's policy goals. In addition, the reports provide more specific insight into how payment behaviour is in the paid zones, parking pressure in the paid zones and the ratio of visitors to permit holders in the paid zones. With this data, we can use fiscal parking supervision more efficiently and steer towards better willingness to pay and better parking regulation.
General data is used and cannot be linked to individuals/registration holders. This increases the chance of catching non-payers, but the data collected does not affect the privacy of license plate holders.
Considerations
Efficient and effective parking surveillance. The scan car can scan around 1,200 license plates in 1 hour. This is less labour-intensive than manually scanning license plates.
Human intervention
Yes, the scan car transmits a license plate number and location to the parking controller who is logged into the system. In all cases, it is a parking controller who checks whether a non-payment has actually taken place. And in all cases, the parking controller imposes the additional charge.
Risk management
All data is processed in a secure environment. Security measures are contractually defined in section 4.10 of the Service Level Agreement with supplier Sigmax.
Legal basis
Art 225, 234 and 235 Municipal Act and the Regulation on the levy and collection of parking tax municipality of Haarlemmermeer 2024 ("Parking Tax Regulation 2024")
Links to legal bases
- Gemeentewet: https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0005416/2024-01-31
- Verordening op de heffing en de invordering van parkeerbelasting gemeente Haarlemmermeer 2024: https://lokaleregelgeving.overheid.nl/CVDR703962/1
Elaboration on impact assessments
A 'data protection impact assessment' (DPIA) has been initiated. This has not yet been finalised.
Operations
Data
Registration number. In case of a post-clearance registration number, location and vehicle details. No NAW data are processed. Only when parking tax is levied, NAW data are added by the tax organisation Cocensus.
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Technical design
The scan car uses Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras on the roof of the vehicle and identifies license plates and checks parking entitlements through the National Parking Register (NPR). The scanning car collects information on willingness to pay occupancy rates and visitor rates. After 24 hours, in the control centre (Back Office system of the scan car), all license plates are anonymised. The license plates on which no parking right is returned are transferred to the enforcement system. In the enforcement system, the license plates are enriched with vehicle data. These license plates enter the enforcement system for the purpose of collecting the parking tax due.
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