Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has introduced new app enabling parking inspectors in the emirate to quickly identify vehicles in breach of the law governing the use of public car parking slots.

The procedure, which is done via smartphones fitted with this app to screen public parking areas, comes as part of RTA’s relentless efforts to provide the best means of delivering services to customers, said a senior official.

RTA’s Traffic & Roads Agency CEO Maitha bin Udai highlighted the benefits of the new app in raising the efficiency of public parking inspectors in Dubai as well as enhancing the efficiency of work at site.

"The smart parking inspection app has a host of smart and technical features including: storing the data of vehicles in breach of the law governing public parking, alerting inspectors to take appropriate procedures in respect of violating vehicles," explained Maitha.

"It smartly positions vehicles incompliant with the rules, and enhancing the quality of images of such vehicles; which in turn would reflect positively on the speed of responding to complaints and signing them off in a timely manner," she added.

According to her, the new app makes it easy for parking inspectors to make reports about any issues at site via a smart electronic environment, besides streamlining the administrative affairs of supervisors.

"It is a step forward towards realizing the strategic goals of the RTA which aims at fulfilling the requirements of the smart government in Dubai, especially as the scope of the sprawling public parking system in the emirate is one of the largest worldwide comprising 125,000 parking slots and five multi-level parking terminals managed by a single operator," she added.-TradeArabia News Service