Work distribution team scanning cars parking enforcement

Municipality of Utrecht

By deploying scan cars, we ensure a better and more efficient way of parking enforcement. With the deployment of scan cars, an effective division of labour is made of the staff involved to carry out this form of parking enforcement.

Last change on 12th of July 2024, at 9:35 (CET) | Publication Standard 1.0

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

General information

Theme

Traffic

Begin date

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Contact information

[e-mail]

Responsible use

Goal and impact

Checking with scanning cars whether there is wrong parking

Considerations

Results Uthiek Assessment: by deploying scan autos, we ensure a better and more efficient way of parking enforcement. With this, we as a municipality perform our legal duty in the right way. This contributes to the Power Relations value. The value Privacy is NOT at stake because personal data of residents (images of license plate cars) are not stored and are deleted directly in the scan car's camera. From the value Control of technology, this was a requirement for the deployment of scan autos. Residents with a disabled parking card can register their parking action digitally or notify the municipality by phone. This prevents disabled residents from receiving an unjustified fine for wrong parking. This is a fulfillment of the value Justice, as we are mindful of the vulnerable resident.

Human intervention

The algorithm (with a direct impact on Utrecht residents and their living environment) only serves as a source of information for an employee, who takes the appropriate next step based on this information and the context of the situation. This principle is included in our Utrecht framework Internal Guidelines for Algorithm Application.

Risk management

The Utrecht data scientists, Information and Process Advisors (IPA) and Decentralised Information Security Officers (DISO) within the Utrecht municipality have a controlling and monitoring role in the application of the algorithm, in addition to the employees directly involved. By doing so, we want to prevent the following risks from occurring:

- data leak by making personal data of Utrecht residents publicly available

- algorithm takes a decision completely independently, without the intervention of an employee and without interpreting the relevant context of the situation

- 'function creep' regarding data when applying the algorithm, causing the algorithm to give a distorted picture of what is going on. This can occur because the same type of data is used when applying the algorithm, and the algorithm uses that as confirmation of what comes out as information

Impact assessment

• Utrechts Uthiek Assessment
• Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA)

Operations

Data

Aggregated data from previous enforcement at street and neighbourhood level