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Ma Place PMR & Street Nav — Monaco's Real-Time Accessible Parking and Routing Apps

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Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 39% 76/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Monaco launched Street Nav (Oct 2025), routing trips around each user's disability, and Ma Place PMR (Dec 2025), showing real-time accessible-parking availability; 64 of 73 PMR spaces are sensor-equipped, co-designed with a disability association, full coverage due 2026.

64 of 73 spaces
PMR parking spaces sensor-equipped at launch (December 2025)
Ma Place PMR & Street Nav — Monaco's Real-Time Accessible Parking and Routing Apps

Details

Maturity
Scaling
Promoter
Monaco Prince's Government — Department of Social Affairs and Health / Interministerial Delegation for Digital Transition
Period
2025-2026 (ongoing)
Keywords
public sector, assistive technology, mobility, IoT

Context

In October 2025, Monaco's Prince's Government launched Street Nav, a navigation app that calculates routes adapted to each user's type of disability, accounting for stairs, slopes, elevators and construction obstacles. On 15-16 December 2025 it launched a companion app, Ma Place PMR, showing real-time availability of surface-level parking spaces reserved for people with reduced mobility.

Activities

The apps were built jointly by the Department of Social Affairs and Health, the Interministerial Delegation for Digital Transition and the Urban Planning Directorate, with private partners Monaco Telecom, Tickitall and Urbiotica, and tested with the Monegasque Association of Motor-Disabled Persons. Both sit under Monaco's 'Handipact' disability-inclusion policy.

Results

At launch, sensors were installed on 64 of the 73 identified PMR parking spaces, with full coverage planned during 2026.

Conclusions

As a city-state of about 2 km2, the approach — a small, densely monitored public realm co-designed with disabled residents — may not transfer directly to larger, less centrally governed cities, though the sensor-and-app architecture itself is transferable.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k) — IoT sensors across dozens of parking spaces plus two custom apps built with multiple private technology partners (Monaco Telecom, Tickitall, Urbiotica) implies medium cost for a small territory.
Time to results
Short (< 1 year) — Both apps launched within two months of each other (October-December 2025) with full sensor coverage targeted for 2026 — a short, fast-moving rollout.
Staffing & skills
Department of Social Affairs and Health (Monaco), Interministerial Delegation for Digital Transition, Urban Planning Directorate, Monaco Telecom, Tickitall, Urbiotica

Conditions for success

  • co-design and testing with the Monegasque Association of Motor-Disabled Persons
  • a small, dense territory enabling near-complete sensor coverage
  • multiple private technology partners for sensors and app development

Common failure modes

  • no independent outcome evaluation yet published
  • small city-state scale may not transfer to larger, less centrally governed cities

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