Drivers will no more receive paper tickets for traffic violations as the Traffic Police is fully shifting to e-ticketing.
E-ticketing is a new, improved and efficient way of issuing traffic tickets, the provincial Traffic Police chief in Yazd Mohammad Pourshams told IRNA.
The system will be used nationwide. Police officers will use the system as soon as they install a specially-developed smartphone application on their handsets and sign in with their special ID number.
Details on how and where the officers can download the app have not been reported.
Whether or not the officer stops the violators, they will be able to send the license plate number of offending vehicles and type of contravention directly to the citation system database.
Pourshams said, "The system analyzes the incoming report and sends drivers a text message notice in five minutes."
According to Pourshams, the text message drivers receive includes time, type of traffic violation, amount of fine and a serial number.
"Drivers can pay the citations by sending the ticket serial number to the Traffic Police automated payment system '120'," he said.
Before the new e-citation system was introduced, an offline system was used for monitoring traffic violations. Driver behavior on the road was monitored and the plate number of violators was recorded by officers and traffic cameras.
After records were analyzed by authorities, they notified the drivers of the contravention via text message. The process took at least 72 hours.
All vehicle owners were able to get their traffic ticket report and pay the citations through the Traffic police website rahvar120.ir.
Pourshams says the old system was time consuming and vulnerable to errors in jotting down number plases. Many officers still use traffic ticket booklets. Gathering all the handwritten information and processing it is time-consuming.
With the new electronic citation system average time of issuing tickets will decline to a few minutes and the percentage of citations that have errors will also reduce. The system is hoped to make recording traffic violations more efficient.
