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Low risk: According to the study, illegal parking can be worthwhile

2022-05-23T08:41:09.271Z


Low risk: According to the study, illegal parking can be worthwhile Created: 2022-05-23Updated: 2022-05-23, 10:37 am By: Sebastian Oppenheimer According to a study, in many cases it pays off not to buy a parking ticket - because the risk of being caught is low. Freiburg – Wrong parking can cost drivers dearly – especially if you park your vehicle illegally in a supermarket car park. It is now


Low risk: According to the study, illegal parking can be worthwhile

Created: 2022-05-23Updated: 2022-05-23, 10:37 am

By: Sebastian Oppenheimer

According to a study, in many cases it pays off not to buy a parking ticket - because the risk of being caught is low.

Freiburg – Wrong parking can cost drivers dearly – especially if you park your vehicle illegally in a supermarket car park.

It is now even possible to report illegal parking using smartphone apps.

However, most drivers do not want to risk a ticket – and therefore buy a parking ticket in the correspondingly marked areas.

Nevertheless, it can be worth doing without the parking ticket - this has now been shown by a study by the Munich University of Applied Sciences (HM).

According to researchers, in many cases it can be worth not buying a parking ticket.

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Low risk: According to the study, illegal parking can be worthwhile

The city of Freiburg served as the research object for the experts.

The data was based on all registered parking offenses in 2019 - a total of more than 180,000 cases.

The location and time of the parking violations were also included - and the rosters with the control areas were also available to the researchers from HM.

The aim was to find out how likely it is for illegal parkers to be caught.

Low risk: "From an economic point of view, it often pays off to park incorrectly",

The result of the HM study is quite clear: In many parts of the city, the risk of getting a speeding ticket is very low - especially outside the city center.

Therefore, in many cases it is actually worth doing without a parking ticket - even if it is of course morally wrong.

"From an economic point of view, it often pays off to park in the wrong place," explains Professor Andreas Humpe from the Faculty of Tourism.

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According to the study, illegal parking can be worthwhile – solution according to experts: increase penalties

This result is of course problematic for the municipalities - but a solution is not that easy.

For example, one could now control more, but that also costs additional money.

In Berlin, people therefore want to help themselves with the use of technology - so-called ScanCars are said to be significantly more efficient than foot patrols when hunting parking offenders.

According to the HM researchers, another possible solution is also ruled out: reducing the parking fees so much that illegal parking becomes economically unprofitable - because that would further promote private transport, which is undesirable.

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According to Professor Humpe from Munich University of Applied Sciences, there is actually only one solution: "The only logical consequence is therefore to increase the penalties." However, these are regulated nationwide by the catalog of fines ordinance and cannot be individually adapted by the cities.

Source: merkur

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