RTA launches smart service for detecting vacant parking spaces

The Roads and Transport Authority, RTA, has exhibited technological updates relating to detecting vacant parking spaces in Dubai through an app for smart phones launched earlier with a bundle of other smart apps.
Updates of the RTA Smart Parking app are accessible through Google Play and Apple Store platforms in implementation of the directives of Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, to transform Dubai into the smartest city in the world within 3 years.
The app, which also conforms to the approach mapped out in the Hamdan bin Mohammed Smart Government Programme, will tentatively be applied to the service road of the Sheikh Zayed road.
CEO of RTA Traffic and Roads Agency, Maitha bin Udai, said, "The app will tentatively be operational in the Abu Dhabi-bound direction of the Sheikh Zayed Road, other phases will follow later on. Parking spaces have been fitted with e-sensors that feed data to control centres of the smart system about the condition of the parking spaces in the intended areas; a process that is handled automatically where deliverables are displayed in a way that enriches the experience of Smart Parking app users." Director of Parking, RTA Traffic and Roads Agency, Adel Al Marzooki, said, "Updates of the Smart Parking app help the user identify the timings of paid parking zones and pay the parking fees directly though the app, and there is also the GPS feature, which enables the user to record the location where his or her vehicle has been parked in case of not being able to remember."