Matthew Willenbrink

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Parking Live · The Chicago Experiment That's Changing Street Safety · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

Is our system easy to use?

Is it achieving the results for our customers at the end of the day?

So in in Chicago, that's increased compliance, uh, that reduction in recidivism.

We're looking at those.

The easy thing for us to track is operational efficiency.

So across all of our customers that use license plate recognition, the average patrol officer in a vehicle, a mobile vehicle equipped with LPR, who is putting tickets onto a windshield, can typically do uh around 250 vehicle plate reads per hour.

And that includes driving down the street, reading plates, finding

A violation, stopping, processing that violation, writing the ticket, getting out, putting it on the windshield, getting back in, continuing as flow.

When we move to a centralized enforcement workflow where that officer now does not have to stop or does not have to stop as often, and all of those violations are reviewed in a back office, we see that number of plates that they can read in an hour jump from 250 to anywhere between 750 and a thousand plates per hour.

So we see a three to four time increase in the number of

vehicles they can read in the same amount of time.

And for cities, that means a couple different things.

They can either

Do more with less.

So use the same workforce and cover more ground or cover the same ground with more granularity.

Uh it just makes their job much more efficient and much easier.

So do we meet those goals if we're deploying a system and we're seeing those numbers jump from that 250 to 500, 700, 800 plates that they can read an hour?

We know we're doing something right.

all of the data like this from Chicago.

We can make streets safer, we can make traffic flow much more efficient.

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