26/02/2023

Dear Sir/Madam,

Subject: Freedom of Information request - Request for data on Electric Vehicle registration and distribution of car parking spaces (Case Ref: 3-7608407445)

Thank you for your email to the Transport Department dated 24/02/2023. Please note that the enquiries and complaints made to the e-mail box "[Transport Department request email]", telephone hotline "2804 2600" and fax hotline "2804 2652" of Transport Department is received by 1823 of the Government.

For the issue(s) related to data on Electric Vehicle registration and distribution of car parking spaces, we have passed your correspondence to the relevant unit of the Transport Department for follow-up. You will be informed of the result once it is available.

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28/02/2023

Dear Sir/Madam,

Subject: Freedom of Information request - Request for data on Electric Vehicle registration and distribution of car parking spaces (Case Ref: 3-7608407445)

Please be informed that your case has been acknowledged by the Transport Department. Appropriate follow up action will be taken.

If you have any questions about this reply, please contact us.

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Winsy Lee
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Dear Xinying

Our department received your request for access to information on 24
February 2023.  Your application is now under processing.  According to
paragraph 1.16 of the Code on Access to Information, our department will
inform you of the latest progress of the case separately on or before 16
March 2023.  You may note that case no. 069/23 is assigned to your
request.

In the meantime, if you have any enquiry, please contact me at 3842 5574.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,
Miss Yoanna LO
for Commissioner for Transport

From:        "Xinying TAN" <[FOI #1314 email]>
To:        "FOI requests at Transport Department" <[Transport Department request email]>
Date:        24/02/2023 04:22 PM
Subject:        Freedom of Information request - Request for data on
Electric Vehicle registration and distribution of car parking spaces
       

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Dear Transport Department,

I am a PhD student from the Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology. Our research team (lead by Prof. Pengyu ZHU) is currently
working on a project about optimizating EV charging infrastructure in Hong
Kong, the project is supported by the CLP Research Fellowship Programme
2022.

For the purpose of this research project, I would like to request for the
following data:

1. Historical data on Electric Vehicle (EV) registration by TPUSB from
2006 to 2022:
- Annual number of EV registrations by Tertiary Planning Units (TPUs) and
Street Blocks (SBs) or Village Clusters (VCs). TPUSB is the geographical
division adopted in the Population Census / Population By-census (see,
[1]https://www.pland.gov.hk/pland_en/info_s...)
(for TPU and SB/VC boundaries, see
[2]https://data.gov.hk/en-data/dataset/hk-p...).

2. Data on the spatial distributions of the following types of car parking
spaces
- Number of on-street parking spaces (including non-metered and metered
parking spaces), and their locations
- Number of parking spaces in government public car parks (including
multi-storey and open-air car parks) managed by the Transportation
Department; and the location of each government public car park
- Number of parking spaces (covers and open, full time and part time) at
the public housing estates, Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) courts, shopping
centres and flatted factories of the Hong Kong Housing Authority (HA); and
the location of each HA carpark managed by HA
- Number of parking spaces for public use (e.g., hourly parking) in
commercial, residential and industrial premises; and the location of
corresponding car park
- Number of parking spaces for private use (e.g., reserved for property
owners or rentals) in commercial, residential and industrial premises; and
the location of corresponding car park

Yours faithfully,

Xinying TAN

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Dear Xinying

I refer to your request for access to information no. 069/23.  Further to
our interim reply dated 2 March 2023, our reply is as follows:

Item 1

The Transport Department (TD) does not maintain data of the number of
registered electric vehicles with breakdown by Tertiary Planning Units and
Street Blocks or Village Clusters.  For other statistics relating to
vehicle registration and licensing, please visit our website for more
details.
[1]https://www.td.gov.hk/en/transport_in_ho...

Item 2

The number of on-street metered and on-street non-metered parking spaces
in Hong Kong as at December 2022 are 19 022 and 17 116 respectively. The
locations of these on-street parking spaces can be referred to the
attached excel files.

(a) Location of on-street metered parking spaces:

(b) Location of on-street non-metered parking spaces:

The number of parking spaces and locations of car parks managed by TD can
be obtained via the following website:
 [2]https://www.td.gov.hk/en/transport_in_ho...

Please approach the Housing Authority for the details of parking data in
public housing estates, HOS courts, shopping centres and flatted factories
under their management.

The number of public and ancillary parking spaces at the Government and
privately-operated car parks as at February 2023 are summarised as
follows.  As a large amount of data is involved, we are unable to enlist
the location of each car park in detail.  

Government Privately-operated
District car parks car parks
Public Ancillary Public Ancillary
Central & Western 2 177 2 535 8 694 26 369
Wan Chai  847 2 234 9 404 26 309
Eastern  910 2 991 12 107 34 062
Southern  855 2 491 7 918 31 296
Yau Tsim Mong  88 1 291 16 887 18 032
Sham Shui Po 1 040 4 742 9 859 18 229
Kowloon City  313 3 258 8 170 39 817
Wong Tai Sin  955 4 117 5 621 13 043
Kwun Tong 1 489 8 161 15 617 30 619
Tsuen Wan  761 1 523 11 892 26 920
Tuen Mun  333 3 522 10 702 30 418
Yuen Long  475 3 234 9 661 32 577
North 1 080 2 937 5 140 13 957
Tai Po  516  682 6 225 24 744
Sai Kung  303 1 975 12 118 32 269
Sha Tin 1 014 4 103 17 520 57 216
Kwai Tsing 1 101 5 155 16 649 25 882
Islands  895  947 5 576 9 535
Total 15 152 55 898 189 760 491 294

Note: The above parking information is collated from the data provided by
various departments, organisations and car park management companies or
operators, and is for general reference only.  The actual number of
parking spaces may vary as the car park providers, management companies or
operators responsible for managing the car parks may make adjustments to
the numbers/types of parking spaces to suit their own requirements.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,
Miss Yoanna LO
for Commissioner for Transport

From:        Yoanna Y LO/TD/HKSARG
To:        [FOI #1314 email]
Date:        02/03/2023 08:01 PM
Subject:        Request for Access to Information (No. 069/23)
        DS/ASA1

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Dear Xinying

Our department received your request for access to information on 24
February 2023.  Your application is now under processing.  According to
paragraph 1.16 of the Code on Access to Information, our department will
inform you of the latest progress of the case separately on or before 16
March 2023.  You may note that case no. 069/23 is assigned to your
request.

In the meantime, if you have any enquiry, please contact me at 3842 5574.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,
Miss Yoanna LO
for Commissioner for Transport

From:        "Xinying TAN" <[FOI #1314 email]>
To:        "FOI requests at Transport Department" <[Transport Department request email]>
Date:        24/02/2023 04:22 PM
Subject:        Freedom of Information request - Request for data on
Electric Vehicle registration and distribution of car parking spaces
       

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Dear Transport Department,

I am a PhD student from the Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology. Our research team (lead by Prof. Pengyu ZHU) is currently
working on a project about optimizating EV charging infrastructure in Hong
Kong, the project is supported by the CLP Research Fellowship Programme
2022.

For the purpose of this research project, I would like to request for the
following data:

1. Historical data on Electric Vehicle (EV) registration by TPUSB from
2006 to 2022:
- Annual number of EV registrations by Tertiary Planning Units (TPUs) and
Street Blocks (SBs) or Village Clusters (VCs). TPUSB is the geographical
division adopted in the Population Census / Population By-census (see,
[3]https://www.pland.gov.hk/pland_en/info_s...)
(for TPU and SB/VC boundaries, see
[4]https://data.gov.hk/en-data/dataset/hk-p...).

2. Data on the spatial distributions of the following types of car parking
spaces
- Number of on-street parking spaces (including non-metered and metered
parking spaces), and their locations
- Number of parking spaces in government public car parks (including
multi-storey and open-air car parks) managed by the Transportation
Department; and the location of each government public car park
- Number of parking spaces (covers and open, full time and part time) at
the public housing estates, Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) courts, shopping
centres and flatted factories of the Hong Kong Housing Authority (HA); and
the location of each HA carpark managed by HA
- Number of parking spaces for public use (e.g., hourly parking) in
commercial, residential and industrial premises; and the location of
corresponding car park
- Number of parking spaces for private use (e.g., reserved for property
owners or rentals) in commercial, residential and industrial premises; and
the location of corresponding car park

Yours faithfully,

Xinying TAN

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the accessinfo.hk website.

Please use this email address for all replies to this request:
[FOI #1314 email]

Is [Transport Department request email] the wrong address for Freedom of Information requests
to Transport Department? If so, please contact us using this form:
[5]https://accessinfo.hk/en/change_request/...

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References

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2. https://www.td.gov.hk/en/transport_in_ho...
3. https://www.pland.gov.hk/pland_en/info_s...
4. https://data.gov.hk/en-data/dataset/hk-p...
5. https://accessinfo.hk/en/change_request/...
6. https://accessinfo.hk/en/help/officers

Dear Xinying,

I refer to your request for access to information dated 17 April 2023.
 Our reply is as follows:

According to the current practice, applicant is required to provide
address information to the Transport Department (“TD”) when submitting a
licensing application.  Data collected is for the purpose of facilitating
communication between TD and the applicant on licensing matters.  TD does
not maintain the address data with grouping under Tertiary Planning Unit
("TPU") or District in Hong Kong in our system.  Therefore, we are unable
to provide the number of registered electric vehicles by TPU or District
as requested.  

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,
Miss Yoanna LO
for Commissioner for Transport

From:        Xinying TAN <[FOI #1314 email]>
To:        Yoanna Y LO <[email address]>
Date:        17/04/2023 17:59
Subject:        Re: Request for Access to Information (No. 069/23)
       

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Dear Yoanna Y LO,

Thank you for your previouse reply and information you provided.

Regarding the data on EV registrations and licenses, could you further
generate the data of private EV car registration numbers for all Tertiary
Planning Units (TPUs), or Districts from the database?

As I know, registrators have to provide their living distric and address
when they registor their car. Therefore, I am wondering that TD should
have the EV numbers of each TPU or District in Hong Kong.

Yours sincerely,

Xinying TAN

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Dear Xinying,

Our department received your request for access to information on 6 June
2023.  Your application is now under processing.  According to paragraph
1.16 of the Code on Access to Information, our department will inform you
of the latest progress of the case separately on or before 26 June 2023.
 You may note that case no. 211/23 is assigned to your request.

In the meantime, if you have any enquiry, please contact me at 3842 5574.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,
Miss Yoanna LO
for Commissioner for Transport

From:        Xinying TAN <[FOI #1314 email]>
To:        Yoanna Y LO <[email address]>
Date:        06/06/2023 15:34
Subject:        Re: Request for Access to Information (No. 137/23)
       

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Dear Yoanna Y LO,

Thank you for your previous reply. The information provided is useful for
me.

With regard to the spatial distribution of car parking spaces, you have
provided me with the number of public and ancillary parking spaces at the
Government and privately-operated car parks across the 18 districts in
Hong Kong (quoted at the end of this message).

However, my research needs the spatial distribution of parking spaces at a
lower level of geographical areas. Could you provide more specific data on
the number of parking spaces across Tertiary Planning Units (TPUs)? The
geographic boundaries of Tertiary Planning Units demarcated by the
Planning Department can be found here:
[1]https://data.gov.hk/en-data/dataset/hk-p....

It would be great if you could classify the number of public and ancillary
parking spaces at the Government and privately-operated car parks, the
same data layout as the previous data reply. If not, the total number of
all parking spaces in each TPU would be useful enough for me.

Thank you in advance for your help!

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Government Privately-operated

District car parks car parks

Public Ancillary Public Ancillary

Central & Western 2 177 2 535 8 694 26 369

Wan Chai  847 2 234 9 404 26 309

Eastern  910 2 991 12 107 34 062

Southern  855 2 491 7 918 31 296

Yau Tsim Mong  88 1 291 16 887 18 032

Sham Shui Po 1 040 4 742 9 859 18 229

Kowloon City  313 3 258 8 170 39 817

Wong Tai Sin  955 4 117 5 621 13 043

Kwun Tong 1 489 8 161 15 617 30 619

Tsuen Wan  761 1 523 11 892 26 920

Tuen Mun  333 3 522 10 702 30 418

Yuen Long  475 3 234 9 661 32 577

North 1 080 2 937 5 140 13 957

Tai Po  516  682 6 225 24 744

Sai Kung  303 1 975 12 118 32 269

Sha Tin 1 014 4 103 17 520 57 216

Kwai Tsing 1 101 5 155 16 649 25 882

Islands  895  947 5 576 9 535

Total 15 152 55 898 189 760 491 294

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Yours sincerely,

Xinying TAN

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Dear Xinying,

I refer to your request for access to information no. 211/23.  Further to
our interim reply dated 15 June 2023, our reply is as follows:

Please find attached the requested parking space data in Tertiary Planning
Units as at May 2023.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,
Miss Yoanna LO
for Commissioner for Transport

From:        Yoanna Y LO/TD/HKSARG
To:        [FOI #1314 email]
Date:        15/06/2023 05:19 pm
Subject:        Request for Access to Information (No. 211/23)
        DS/ASA1

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Dear Xinying,

Our department received your request for access to information on 6 June
2023.  Your application is now under processing.  According to paragraph
1.16 of the Code on Access to Information, our department will inform you
of the latest progress of the case separately on or before 26 June 2023.
 You may note that case no. 211/23 is assigned to your request.

In the meantime, if you have any enquiry, please contact me at 3842 5574.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,
Miss Yoanna LO
for Commissioner for Transport

From:        Xinying TAN <[FOI #1314 email]>
To:        Yoanna Y LO <[email address]>
Date:        06/06/2023 15:34
Subject:        Re: Request for Access to Information (No. 137/23)
       

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Dear Yoanna Y LO,

Thank you for your previous reply. The information provided is useful for
me.

With regard to the spatial distribution of car parking spaces, you have
provided me with the number of public and ancillary parking spaces at the
Government and privately-operated car parks across the 18 districts in
Hong Kong (quoted at the end of this message).

However, my research needs the spatial distribution of parking spaces at a
lower level of geographical areas. Could you provide more specific data on
the number of parking spaces across Tertiary Planning Units (TPUs)? The
geographic boundaries of Tertiary Planning Units demarcated by the
Planning Department can be found here:
[1]https://data.gov.hk/en-data/dataset/hk-p....

It would be great if you could classify the number of public and ancillary
parking spaces at the Government and privately-operated car parks, the
same data layout as the previous data reply. If not, the total number of
all parking spaces in each TPU would be useful enough for me.

Thank you in advance for your help!

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Government Privately-operated

District car parks car parks

Public Ancillary Public Ancillary

Central & Western 2 177 2 535 8 694 26 369

Wan Chai  847 2 234 9 404 26 309

Eastern  910 2 991 12 107 34 062

Southern  855 2 491 7 918 31 296

Yau Tsim Mong  88 1 291 16 887 18 032

Sham Shui Po 1 040 4 742 9 859 18 229

Kowloon City  313 3 258 8 170 39 817

Wong Tai Sin  955 4 117 5 621 13 043

Kwun Tong 1 489 8 161 15 617 30 619

Tsuen Wan  761 1 523 11 892 26 920

Tuen Mun  333 3 522 10 702 30 418

Yuen Long  475 3 234 9 661 32 577

North 1 080 2 937 5 140 13 957

Tai Po  516  682 6 225 24 744

Sai Kung  303 1 975 12 118 32 269

Sha Tin 1 014 4 103 17 520 57 216

Kwai Tsing 1 101 5 155 16 649 25 882

Islands  895  947 5 576 9 535

Total 15 152 55 898 189 760 491 294

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Yours sincerely,

Xinying TAN

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