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İstanbul
Mobile Parking | Sms Parking | Intelligent Transportation System
Posting Date: 10 May 2009
Last Edited Date: 12 May 2009
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R.Erdem ERKUL (Hacettepe University Department of Political Science, Editor of digital-government.net)Turkey | www.digital-government.net
Project or serviceThe project aims at solving the parking problem in Istanbul by using mobile technologies, especially mobile phones. The users subscribe to the system before they use it. After that, they use SMS function of their mobile phones to park their cars and the parking bills are sent to them within their mobile phone bills. This project was made possible by the joint effords of Municipality of Istanbul and Turkcell Mobile Phone Company. The system is in-use in certain areas of Istanbul for now. It is expected to increase efficiency in municipal parking services in terms of cost.
