Introduction

The Government provides on-street parking spaces to meet the short-term parking needs of motorists. At present, the new parking meters are equipped with sensors to detect the real-time vacancy of metered on-street parking spaces. Motorists can obtain the parking vacancy information through the mobile / web version of "HKeMobility" and thus reducing the time for vehicles circulating on the roads. This information is also disseminated through the website of "DATA.GOV.HK". In order to provide the motorists with real-time parking vacancy information at parking spaces without parking meters, the Transport Department has completed installing sensors at about 250 non-metered on-street parking spaces to detect whether the parking spaces are occupied.

The non-metered on-street parking spaces selected for the trial cover parking spaces for private cars, the disabled and coaches and are located near outing hotspots and town centers in the New Territories. We will evaluate the effectiveness of the detection technologies applied at different types of parking spaces and different locations (please click here for the location and number of the selected non-metered on-street parking spaces). The Transport Department is reviewing the effectiveness of the trial scheme, and then will install sensors at other suitable on-street parking spaces.

Implementation Arrangement

The installed sensors are embedded in the ground of the parking spaces as shown in the figure below. The sensors employ radar and geomagnetic induction to detect whether the parking spaces are occupied. For the purpose of privacy protection, the sensors do not collect any personal information, vehicle model or vehicle registration number, and do not have photographic or recording functions.

The relevant real-time parking vacancy information is disseminated through the mobile / web version of "HKeMobility" and the website of "DATA.GOV.HK". The public can scan the following QR code to download "HKeMobility".