 "Street sensors to help motorists park vehicles in UK")
**London:**For the first time, a mobileapplication will guide drivers in UK where to park and allowthem to pay on phone for the parking.
Sensors which can alert motorists to empty parking baysare being trialled in Britain for the first time, the ‘DailyMail’ reported.
“This has potential for the whole country. We’re pilotingthe first system of its kind in the Europe from thisWednesday. Smart sensors are being installed in parking baysfor the first time on-street in the UK,” a spokesman forWestminster City Council was quoted as saying by the paper.
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“It will reduce congestion and minimise the need formotorists to endlessly trawl the streets searching forsomewhere to park,” the spokesperson said.
Westminster City Council along with car-park firm ‘Townand City Parking Ltd’ are piloting this system here.
The small glass-domed sensors are embedded in the centreof each bay and can tell when a car is present, absent, or hasover-stayed its allotted time.
Details of empty bays will be collected centrally and sentvia mobile phone and wi-fi to motorists on their phones, whocan then drive to the vacant space.
Drivers have to pay for to park over the phone. Once fullyoperational, that the system will also send special alerts todrivers when their paid-for time is getting over.
If a driver overstays the allotted parking time, thesensors will send a signal to the parking authorities who willsend around a warden to issue a penalty ticket to themotorist.
The new system is in use in San Francisco and is beingtried in London which charges up to 4.40 British pound (almost $7) an hour for on-street parking.
If successful the sensors could be rolled out across thecapital and to other cities including Manchester, Birmingham,Cardiff, Newcastle, Bristol, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
The council will link the information to the ‘Parkopedia’website-which provides the application or ‘app’- whichalready gives a host of updated information on parking.
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