Tbilisi Paid Parking: From the C.T. Park Concession to City-Run Zonal Parking
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A private firm ran Tbilisi's parking and wrote the fines. In 2016 the city said ending the deal would cost 25 million lari; in 2018 it ended it anyway, and tickets fell.
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Tbilisi has charged for on-street parking since a private firm, C.T. Park, won an exclusive municipal auction in November 2007. From August 2009 drivers paid by the hour by mobile phone, scratch card or parking meter, and the company issued the fines; under its contract, 60% of the penalty total went to the city. City Hall ended the deal on 10 April 2018, saying the company did not fulfil its obligations, and handed parking to the Tbilisi Transport Company. Since 1 August 2019 the city has rolled out zonal hourly parking: numbered bays paid through the Tbilisi Parking app or roadside machines, free for residents within 100 metres. It began on one street, reached Saburtalo and Vake in 2020, and added 1,340 spaces on new streets in August 2025.
📊 Impact
FactCheck Georgia compared the two eras using Tbilisi Transport Company data: City Hall's revenue from parking penalties averaged GEL 5,926,800 a year under City Park (2011–2017) and GEL 3,302,800 a year after the takeover, and the city's company issued far fewer tickets. Tbilisi had 28,898 designated parking spaces on 9 September 2022, down from 32,257 on 10 April 2018, and FactCheck noted that no underground parking had been built despite the city's pledges. In September 2022 Parliament approved a City Hall package raising the fine for illegal parking from 10 to 50 lari and ordering cars parked on pavements to be towed at once. No source measures whether zonal pricing has eased congestion.
🎓 Lesson
Tbilisi shows how long a city can stay bound to a concession it regrets. In 2016 the mayor's office said it could not cancel the C.T. Park contract because, by Ernst & Young's estimate, ending it would cost 25 million lari; two city councillors replied that since August 2014 drivers had paid the company 62 million lari in fines, of which only 18 million reached the city budget. Even the contract's end date is reported differently: 2025 in that dispute, 2022 when the city terminated the deal in 2018, citing non-performance and saying no compensation was due. Since the takeover the city has issued fewer tickets and collected less in fines. Its stated aim is to reduce the role of cars, and no source yet shows whether the zones have done that.
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Two clocks, kept apart: when this entry’s sources were published, and what has happened to its record in the atlas. Documented span: since 2009. 7 of 7 sources carry a publication date, from 21 August 2009 to 1 August 2025.
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- The Messenger · pressThe Messenger — Pay for your parking or pay a fine (21 Aug 2009)
- The Messenger · pressThe Messenger — Tbilisi City Council MPs demand suspension of agreement with C.T. Park (11 Nov 2016)
- The Messenger · pressThe Messenger — Tbilisi Mayors Office Suspends Contract with C.T. Park (14 Mar 2018)
- JAMnews · pressJAMnews — Avoid the fine – zonal parking returns to Tbilisi
- FactCheck Georgia · ngoFactCheck Georgia — What Has Changed in Tbilisi's Parking System post-City Park Company
- JAMnews · pressJAMnews (Georgian) — Fine for illegal parking in Tbilisi raised fivefold
- Commersant.ge · pressCommersant.ge — The changes to come into force in Georgia from today, August 1
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a private firm, C.T. Park, won an exclusive municipal auction in November 2007
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From August 2009 drivers paid by the hour by mobile phone, scratch card or parking meter
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the company issued the fines
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under its contract, 60% of the penalty total went to the city
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City Hall ended the deal on 10 April 2018, saying the company did not fulfil its obligations
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handed parking to the Tbilisi Transport Company
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Since 1 August 2019 the city has rolled out zonal hourly parking
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numbered bays paid through the Tbilisi Parking app or roadside machines
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free for residents within 100 metres
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It began on one street, reached Saburtalo and Vake in 2020
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added 1,340 spaces on new streets in August 2025
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City Hall's revenue from parking penalties averaged GEL 5,926,800 a year under City Park (2011–2017) and GEL 3,302,800 a year after the takeover
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the city's company issued far fewer tickets
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Tbilisi had 28,898 designated parking spaces on 9 September 2022, down from 32,257 on 10 April 2018
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no underground parking had been built despite the city's pledges
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In September 2022 Parliament approved a City Hall package raising the fine for illegal parking from 10 to 50 lari and ordering cars parked on pavements to be towed at once
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No source measures whether zonal pricing has eased congestion.
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In 2016 the mayor's office said it could not cancel the C.T. Park contract because, by Ernst & Young's estimate, ending it would cost 25 million lari
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two city councillors replied that since August 2014 drivers had paid the company 62 million lari in fines, of which only 18 million reached the city budget
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2025 in that dispute
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2022 when the city terminated the deal in 2018, citing non-performance and saying no compensation was due
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Since the takeover the city has issued fewer tickets and collected less in fines.
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Its stated aim is to reduce the role of cars
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no source yet shows whether the zones have done that
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- Tbilisi Transport Company, which took over parking from the concessionaire C.T. Park (City Park) on 10 April 2018
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The Messenger — Pay for your parking or pay a fine (21 Aug 2009)
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- 2009-08-21
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Report on C.T. Park's rules: drivers pay by the hour by mobile phone, scratch card or parking meter, at 0.20, 0.50 or 1 lari an hour by zone, residents park free in their own area, and the company fines non-payment. It says the company won the exclusive right to manage Tbilisi parking at a municipal auction in November 2007.
The Messenger — Tbilisi City Council MPs demand suspension of agreement with C.T. Park (11 Nov 2016)
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Two Tbilisi City Council members demand that the contract be suspended. The mayor's office says, citing Ernst & Young, that cancelling would cost it 25 million lari; the councillors say that since August 2014 drivers paid 62 million lari in fines to the company and 18 million reached the city budget, and that the contract runs to 2025.
The Messenger — Tbilisi Mayors Office Suspends Contract with C.T. Park (14 Mar 2018)
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Mayor Kakha Kaladze announces the contract will be annulled on 10 April because the company does not fulfil its obligations; the deputy mayor says no compensation is due; C.T. Park says it will defend its rights in Georgia and in international arbitration. Gives the contract's term as running to 2022 and names the Tbilisi Transport Company as the new manager.
FactCheck Georgia — What Has Changed in Tbilisi's Parking System post-City Park Company
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- 2022-05-30
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FactCheck Georgia's comparison of the two eras on Tbilisi Transport Company data: average annual City Hall revenue from parking penalties of GEL 5,926,800 under City Park (2011–2017) and GEL 3,302,800 afterwards, far fewer tickets, 60% of penalties to the city under the old contract, and fewer parking spaces with no new underground parking.
JAMnews — Avoid the fine – zonal parking returns to Tbilisi
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Explainer as paid zonal parking resumed after a lockdown pause: pilot from 1 August 2019 on Kote Apkhazi Street, extended in 2020 to Saburtalo and Vake (1,039 and 1,629 zonal spaces), bays marked with a zone letter and number, payment through the Tbilisi Parking app or machines, 1 lari an hour, free for residents within 100 metres.
JAMnews (Georgian) — Fine for illegal parking in Tbilisi raised fivefold
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Parliament approves, in the third reading, a package drafted on City Hall's initiative: the fine for illegal parking rises from 10 to 50 lari and cars parked on pavements are towed at once. Gives 28,898 designated parking spaces on 9 September 2022 against 32,257 on 10 April 2018.
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Commersant.ge — The changes to come into force in Georgia from today, August 1
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Round-up of rules taking effect on 1 August 2025, including zonal hourly parking on new streets in several districts with 1,340 spaces, free for local residents who registered from 1 July.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Tbilisi Paid Parking: From the C.T. Park Concession to City-Run Zonal Parking” — Tbilisi, Georgia. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/tbilisi-paid-parking/ (last verified 2026-11-04). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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