{"id":625274,"date":"2026-03-01T20:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T20:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/625274\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T20:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T20:08:11","slug":"ai-cameras-on-trolleys-will-enforce-philly-parking-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/625274\/","title":{"rendered":"AI cameras on trolleys will enforce Philly parking violations"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

Starting Monday, SEPTA and the Philadelphia Parking Authority will install artificial intelligence cameras on trolleys across the city to catch instances of illegal parking that block trolley routes.\n<\/p>\n

The cameras will help the PPA enforce parking violations for drivers who block trolley lanes and stops, which often cause delays for SEPTA vehicles, recording details of parking violations and sending them to the PPA for confirmation and enforcement. Philadelphia is the first city in the country to utilize this approach on trolleys.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThe trolleys are a really great use for this kind of enforcement because they can\u2019t get around a parked car,\u201d Matthew Zapson, a manager of planning programs at SEPTA, said, adding that SEPTA has seen a 3-6% decrease in travel times on bus routes with these cameras. \u201cWe\u2019re really hopeful that on the trolleys it\u2019ll be a really profound impact for riders.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\u201cA single illegally parked vehicle can disrupt service for thousands of riders and create unsafe boarding conditions that force passengers into moving traffic,\u201d PPA Executive Director Rich Lazer said in a release<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

The trolleys will soon feature two cameras to support enforcement. One uses AI<\/a> to identify vehicles parked illegally, recording their license plate number and the date, time and location of the incident. A detected violation triggers a standard video camera, which records the infraction. The combined footage creates an \u201cenforcement package\u201d that is then sent to a PPA enforcement officer for verification. If confirmed, the driver receives a ticket, according to Zapson.\n<\/p>\n

The video camera \u201conly turns on when a violation is detected by the AI camera, [and] people\u2019s facial features are automatically blurred out as well as the license plate of surrounding vehicles,\u201d Zapson said, adding that riders should not be concerned about privacy.\n<\/p>\n

The installation continues a partnership between SEPTA, the PPA and the city of Philadelphia\u2019s Office of Transportation, Infrastructure and Systems, utilizing cameras from Hayden AI<\/a>. SEPTA first piloted the initiative in 2023, testing the cameras on seven buses<\/a> across two of its busiest lines. Over 36,000 parking violations were recorded in just over two months, Zapson said.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThat, for us, really helped articulate a problem that SEPTA and our riders knew was a big issue, which was that illegally parked cars make it difficult for people to safely and accessibly get on and off a bus or trolley at a stop, [and] can cause delays [and] get buses and trolleys off schedule,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":625275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,738,34144,1448,2830,1311,92196,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-625274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-america","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-camera","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-trolley","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116155731422352738","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}