Device and method for restricting a vehicle operator from passing through an access-controlled barrier in response to a parking violation

A method of restricting a vehicle operator from passing through an access-controlled barrier in response to a parking violation, the method comprising:

• determining, at an electronic computing device, that a vehicle is parked in violation of a parking regulation enforced in a parking space;
• determining, at the electronic computing device, that a vehicle operator associated with the vehicle has exited the vehicle after having parked the vehicle in violation of the parking regulation;
• capturing, at the electronic computing device, an identifiable feature uniquely associated with the vehicle operator;
• determining, at the electronic computing device, that a person is approaching an access-controlled barrier associated with the parking space;
• determining, at the electronic computing device, whether an identifiable feature uniquely associated with the person correlates with the identifiable feature uniquely associated with the vehicle operator;
• identifying, at the electronic computing device, the person approaching the access-controlled barrier as the vehicle operator who parked the vehicle in violation of the parking regulation when there is a threshold level of correlation between the identifiable feature uniquely associated with the person and the identifiable feature uniquely associated with the vehicle operator;
• and
• restricting, at the electronic computing device, the person identified as the vehicle operator from passing through the access-controlled barrier.