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Parking—licence plate recognition technology
(Question No 205)

Mrs Kikkert asked the Minister for Transport and City Services, upon notice, on 23 April 2021 (redirected to the Minister for Business and Better Regulation):

(1) When was new licence plate recognition (LPR) technology introduced for parking enforcement.

(2) Has illegal parking increased or decreased since the introduction of LPR and can the Minister provide the data.

(3) By how much has LPR increased revenue from parking fines and can the Minister provide the data.

Ms Cheyne: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:

(1) Licence Plate Recognition (LPR) was introduced in September 2017.

(2) Data collected by Access Canberra relates only to the numbers of infringements issued. The number of infringements issued since the introduction of LPR is below:

(3) The use of LPR parking patrols is one of several methods utilised by Access Canberra as part of its overall parking compliance activities. Use of LPR depends on the nature of the compliance activity and associated risks. The numbers of infringements issued by LPR can increase or decrease based on a range of factors including the location and volume of enforcement activities.

The number of LPR issued infringements are provided in the below table:

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