One year after they went into service, the City of Laval’s 5,000 smart parking signs have measurable results. According to the city’s head of snow removal operations, quoted by La Presse on 11 November 2026, crews cleared 90.6 kilometres per shift in winter 2025-2026, up from 77.9 the winter before, an increase of about 16%. The snow removal fleet also burned some 43,000 litres less diesel.
The idea is simple: when the no-parking symbol is lit, park elsewhere; when it is off, parking is allowed, and the sign shows the hours of the ban. The solar-powered signs are controlled remotely from a control centre. Public works crews no longer change signs by hand, and a ban can be lifted as soon as a street section is cleared. It is a first in Québec, deployed in Chomedey, Laval-des-Rapides and Pont-Viau.
The project was delivered by Pierre Brossard. Trafic Innovation builds the signs, and Dimonoff supplies the Dimonoff | SCMS platform, the connectivity and a module based on that platform, which Trafic Innovation builds into each sign. It is the same kind of connected infrastructure Laval already runs for its 37,000 streetlights, now extended to parking and snow removal.