Dubai Announces Free Digital Parking Permits

Great news for Dubai residents: no more fumbling with paper parking permits or stressing about where to stick them on your windshield.

Starting from Sunday August 20, the Road and Transport Authority (RTA) is going paperless with free digital parking permits (for some people). So, if you’re a senior Emirati citizen or a person of determination, you can say goodbye to paper parking permits.

With these digital permits, you can add up to five vehicles per permit and activate them whenever you want by using the RTA website or app.

#RTA is complementing its smart service offering by digitising the parking permit services for Senior Emiratis and People of Determination as of this August 20th.https://t.co/o71w0pzhq6 pic.twitter.com/ERW0cTdv8D

— RTA (@rta_dubai) August 14, 2023

With this initiative, the RTA aims to transform its services into smart and proactive ones, in line with Dubai’s vision of being a smart city.

It also aims to enhance customers’ happiness, especially senior Emiratis and people of determination who form an integral part of the UAE community, by giving them free parking.

These free parking permits provided include a range of services, including, issuing and renewing permits that allow you to use public parking for free.

It also includes free permanent and temporary permits for people of determination, a free tourist parking permit for people of determination, a free parking permit for rehabilitation centres for people of determination, and a free parking permit for those with certain medical conditions allowing them to use public parking and allocated people of determination parking spaces.

The RTA has been working towards digitisation for a while now.

It recently introduced a paperless violation system by fitting vehicles with scanners and deploying a smart supervisor that issues electronic tickets. Fines are then displayed on the smart app or the website.