Smart city: is your city ready?

Abstract

The electronic parking engine is a form of Medan City Representative in terms of Parking Payments. Based on data shows that eletronic parking machines have been used in the city of Medan since 2013. Basically users of electronic parking machines are a form of use of information and communication technology in running the government of Medan City. This can provide support for the city of Medan as a smart city. In this case Rudolf Giffinger stated that there are six characteristics to realize a smart city. In this case the electronic parking engine is expected to be able to realize the city of Medan as a smart city, so qualitative research is needed regarding the electronic parking engine in the city of Medan. The problem of public parking services that is happening in the city of Medan at this time has grown into a serious issue. The resulting consequences are increased air pollution, congestion problems, inconvenience in finding parking, to the problem of levies on illegal parking fees. Thus, the government through the Medan City Transportation Office as the policy implementer has launched a solution to control parking management to road users in real time through the implementation of the Smart Parking System program. This program is a part or dimension of Smart City, which is shaded by the concept of Smart Transportation. The results of this study state that an electronic parking engine has been installed in the city of Medan since 2013. However, after about four years the engine has been tested and not yet fully operational.