Montenegro: 1 scheme to know about before you drive in.
Tivat has one driving restriction on our books: the Odluka o regulisanju saobraćaja na teritoriji Opštine Tivat (limited traffic zone). What is a limited traffic zone?
Sources last read on 2026-09-21, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2026-12-20.
Tivat regulates its traffic in one municipal decision, and that decision answers two different drivers. If you are in a car, the part that concerns you is short: three places are pedestrian zones — Maršala Tita street, the Šetalište Iva Vizina promenade and Obala Filipa Miloševića in Donja Lastva — and the decision designates them without attaching an hour, a charge or an emission class to the designation.
There is no Euro standard anywhere in this scheme, no daily ticket, and no window in which the pedestrian zones open to ordinary traffic. If you are in a goods vehicle, the decision is much longer and it applies across the whole municipality rather than in a marked-off centre.
The rule as it now stands, after the 2018 amendment replaced article 5 in full, is that goods vehicles may use the streets of Tivat — pedestrian zones and traffic-calmed zones excepted — up to 5 tonnes maximum permitted gross mass, and only for supplying shops and hospitality premises or for building, reconstructing, adapting and fitting out premises.
Above 5 tonnes there is no general right of access at all: the traffic secretariat may permit a goods vehicle up to a ceiling of 12 tonnes, and only for construction work, on a written application with the building permit, the works contract, the vehicle registration document, a sketch of the route from the Adriatic highway to the destination, and proof that two local administrative fees have been paid.
Supply into a traffic-calmed zone is narrower again and is the one place in the decision where a clock appears: up to 3.5 tonnes, between 06:00 and 09:00, at walking pace and no faster than 10 km/h, on the secretariat's approval. Into a pedestrian zone there is no delivery window at all — the decision says supply is made from the side streets instead.
Three categories move without asking anyone: emergency intervention on infrastructure, utility vehicles doing their work, and vehicles serving cultural events, which the amended article 5 lets onto city streets without the secretariat's approval. The fines in the decision are worth reading for what they do not cover.
They attach to breaching the goods-vehicle rule, the supply rule and the abandoned-vehicle rule — not to a car being driven into a pedestrian zone, which is a matter for Montenegro's national road safety act and is not priced here.