Home » Parking & Security Operations » Digital Tire Chalking Digital tire chalking is often described as a feature — something a parking enforcement system either has or doesn’t have. The more useful way to think about it is as a data architecture problem. Time-based enforcement requires tracking vehicle presence across multiple observations, multiple officers,…
Home » Parking & Security Operations » Digital Tire Chalking Digital tire chalking and license plate recognition are each valuable enforcement capabilities on their own. Together, they change the operational model for time-based enforcement in ways that neither achieves independently. Manual digital chalking — an officer scanning each plate with a handheld device — is…
Home » Parking & Security Operations » Digital Tire Chalking The concept behind digital tire chalking is straightforward: record when a vehicle arrived, check back later, cite if it’s overstayed. The operational details of how that actually works across a patrol shift — across multiple officers, across shift changes, across different zone types and time…
Home » Parking & Security Operations » Digital Tire Chalking For most of parking enforcement’s history, the legality of tire chalking wasn’t seriously questioned. Officers marked tires. Courts accepted the practice. The chalk mark was treated as an unremarkable component of routine parking management. That changed in 2019. A federal appeals court ruling put physical…
Home » Parking & Security Operations » Digital Tire Chalking Time-based parking enforcement is one of the most common and most operationally challenging aspects of parking management. Two-hour downtown limits. Thirty-minute loading zones. Short-term visitor parking. These rules exist for good reasons — supporting business turnover, keeping access zones functional, preventing long-term storage in short-term…
