The second who is currently brought into service was studied in 1982 and brought into service by stages according to the installation of the layout of the light subway as from 1985 and was completed in 1989-1990.

In the same way this study laid down a policy of parking for the town of Tunis considering as the parking is an integral shutter for the success of a traffic plan.

The objectives of this plan are:
To decrease the load on the environment.
To increase the safety of the pedestrians.
To improve multimode accessibility in the center town while respecting balance between the capacity of the infrastructure.
And requires it displacement in order to maintain the activity of the City.

The set of priorities is the following :
Pedestrian
Common transport
Public and different highway.
For the management of circulation, it has a follow-up to make and measurements of parameters to control to follow the evolution of circulation and to improve the level of the service rendered to the citizen.
In order to ensure this management suitably, a system of regulation centralized brought into service since 1978 and renewed in 1995 by a material meeting the standards ISO 9000 able to manage the traffic at real time prescribed, to have real information and to act consequently.
This central station of regulation of traffic is the first in Africa.

Traffic plan of the south zone of Tunis

The municipality of Tunis started in 1998 a study aiming at bringing up to date its traffic organization : The first phase of the study is completed, it consists in making an inventory with the diagnosis of the current location. The second phase is related to the development of alternatives, this by taking account of the objectives defined by the follow-up committee and which consists of a modal split of 50% for each means of transport to knowing T.C and private cars about the unit of the perimeter up to 60% for the T.C inside the ring of Boulevard.

Shutter parking :
In reguards to the importance of the policy of the parking in the cities and its direct incidence on the distribution of the activities and the central functions. This one conditions traffic and accessibility in the center, it acts on the choice of the means of transport for the users, it presents of this fact of the economic issues and urban very important.

The Municipality of Tunis, had recourse to any possible tool in order to improve the conditions of parking in the center, to adjust the request on the offer available, while safeguarding the population and the activities of the center, For this purpose several actions could take place :

• Studies and investigations to bring up to date the data into supply and demand of parking in order to constitute a database necessary to any reflection on the parking and its evolution.

• Development of a policy of parking whose objectives are in harmony with those of the traffic organization of the town of Tunis and having for goal the establishment of a balance between the capacity of parking, the tariffing and the control system of the prohibited parking.

• Definition of the standards of parking adapted to the local conditions, allowing to avoid any thickening of urban fabric in the hot areas, this by putting a ceiling to the standards of places exigible from the manufacturers within the framework of the payments of town planning (plan of Installation).

• Installation of an effective control system of the prohibited parking in order to accustom the users to the observance of the regulation.

  The generalization of the policy of parking pay of short duration in the center town, in order to improve management of the offer of parking available on the public highway this by founding a rotary parking by the ticket machine installation of.

• The revision of the regulation of parking in certain arteries for a rationalization of the offer.

Increase in the capacity of the parking except roadway system by construction of carparks primarily intended to collect the parking of the migrants (commercial and employees), of the residents and partially those which have a need for parking of long life. For this :

The Municipality has just started the preliminary studies for the construction of a multistorey parking lot on the site oukalas Shili and Dziri located at Bab Souika.

In addition and considering the cost high for the construction of the multistory parking lots and in harmony with the orientations followed to make take part the private investors in economic development, the Municipality of Tunis undertook attempts in order to attract the private promoters to be invested in this sector, in their offering profit-sharing's, like the duration of the concession of the ground, the granting of authorization of construction of buildings of trade and a certain flexibility of tariffing, the management of parking on the roadway system in the zone of the multistory parking lot.

The municipality of Tunis entrusted to company LAFAYETTE DEVELOPMENT a concession for one 40 years duration, the construction and the management of a multistory parking lot in Lafayette.
The municipality of Tunis launched another invitation to tender for the concession of the grounds quoted hereafter for the construction and the exploitation of multistory parking lot, namely the current carpark of the Street Abderrazek Chraibi, the current carpark of the Street Mokhtar Attia, the Northern Piece, the site located beside the place Medak El Halfa, delimited by the Street Sidi El Morjani, of the Barracks and Koutteb El Ouazir.
The municipality studies the feasibility of the installation of a multistorey parking lot at the central market, with a capacity of 200 places.

In addition, the efforts of the Municipality are devoted, simultaneously with the improvement of the management of the parking on and except roadway system in the center, to promote the peripheral carparks of dissuasion near the subway stations, station drunk, of coordination with the ministry for transport, those will support the use of public transport and will attenuate the demand pull of parking of long life of the migrants, in incentive with the promotion of public transport like access mode to the center.

Quality control in the field of circulation :
The standards used in the field of circulation must answer the highway code and conventions of Vienna and Geneva which are international conventions.

Horizontal indication :
The carriageway markings relate to painting on the ground as well in current section as on the level of the crossroads. It in particular makes it possible to channel and direct various flows of circulation.

Considering the big role of this indication, it must be visible as well of day like night. The quality of painting and the application condition the required result.

The characteristics of painting being reproduced on the texts of homologation concern in particular :
Lifespan
The time of drying
It is to be specified that the application of painting depends on the nature of the roadway and the climatic conditions.

Vertical Indication :
Vertical indication generally relates to the road plates and the plates of indication and marking out.
This indication is subjected to the international standards which relate to in particular the coating, dimensions of the plates and their site on the road.
The plates must be covered with a reflective retro film to be visible the night.
The features depend the thickness and on the nature of sheet as well as operations of manufacture and treatment on surface.
Considering the big role which this indication plays, it must be visible and readable, the visibility and legibility depending on three parameters.

• The detection (which depends on the site)
• The identification (recognition of indication)
• The reading (transmission of the message contained on the panel)