Digital Traffic Fines & Cashless Parking (AATMA)

In late December 2024 the Addis Ababa Traffic Management Authority switched the city's traffic fines and parking fees from paper pads to a digital platform built with local firm Infratech Software Service, linked to the Driver & Vehicle Licensing & Control Authority's vehicle register. Drivers register their plates and pay through the AATMA Drivers app or bank channels; attendants log parked cars on tablets, and by May 2025 the authority reported more than 700,000 vehicles and a million drivers registered, over 700 million birr collected from parking fees and penalties in nine months, and cashless operation in ten parking lots. Those figures are the authority's own, and the rollout has drawn criticism: payments initially ran exclusively through the state-owned Commercial Bank of Ethiopia, vehicles registered outside Addis Ababa were left out, and the city's 353 parking associations — whose attendants lived off cash fees — say they were shifted onto percentage-based agreements with little advance notice.