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Know Parking Here series

10/17/08 Posted in CAR, Mapping

A project by CTV-British Columbia and ESRI Canada mapped parking ticket trends in Vancouver.   Through a freedom of information request, CTV received digital copies of all the parking tickets issued during a two-week period and analysed the information to determine numerous trends including spikes in ticketing at certain points in the day and neighborhoods where cars are more likely to get tickets.

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