Benefits of Smart Car Park System Developed by ST Engineering and NTU and Plans for More Such Barrier-free Access

Mr Melvin Yong Yik Chye asked the Minister for National Development (a) whether the Ministry is studying the benefits of the Smart Car Park System developed by ST Engineering and NTU Singapore; and (b) whether there are plans to have more barrier-free smart car parks in Singapore.

Car park operators can adopt various technologies to suit their operational needs.

For HDB car parks, HDB has developed a barrier-free smart parking system, Parking@HDB and installed the system at four HDB precincts in Punggol Northshore. These carparks have no barriers, and motorists can just park and go. Cameras will detect vehicle plate numbers, and parking charges will be automatically calculated. Motorists can pay using their credit or debit cards via the Parking@HDB mobile application, and do not need to worry about insufficient funds in their CashCards.

HDB is currently evaluating and finetuning these pilots at Punggol Northshore, before progressively scaling up to other HDB car parks.