Serbia: 2 schemes to know about before you drive in.
Belgrade has 2 driving restrictions on our books: the Улице за пешачки саобраћај на територији града Београда – пешачке зоне (limited traffic zone) and the Режим саобраћаја теретних и запрежних возила и снабдевање на територији… (heavy vehicle ban). What is a limited traffic zone?
Sources last read on 2026-09-16, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2026-11-30.
Belgrade's pedestrian zones are the strictest kind of restriction in this corpus and also the simplest to state: in the streets the city lists, only pedestrians may move. The instrument says so in one sentence — it designates streets or parts of streets in which traffic is permitted exclusively to pedestrians.
There is no charge for driving in, no emission class that buys you in, and no hour of the day when the rule lifts of its own accord. Everything that does move there moves on an individual decision, a решење, issued by the city's Secretariat for Traffic, and the decision names the access point and the route the vehicle must take inside the zone. The permits are few and they are listed.
Emergency intervention — ambulance, police, fire service, funeral services, the utility vehicles of public enterprises and tow trucks — may run at any hour, up to 3.5 tonnes. Communal maintenance by utility vehicles up to 3.5 tonnes runs from 01:00 to 08:00. Supply, the loading and unloading of money, and house removals run from 05:00 to 08:00.
Residents of the pedestrian zone who hold a parking space in a courtyard or a garage, and journeys carrying a person with a disability, may move at any hour — and those are the only two cases in which an ordinary car has business here at all, which is what a driver planning a route needs to know.
Two more permissions sit in the act itself: a passenger vehicle may be allowed in for a 'special need', which the act defines as reaching a parking space or garage the owner has a legal right to and as transporting a person with a disability, and the electric 'Врабац' shuttles with up to eight passenger seats plus the driver may carry citizens through.
Every one of those moves at walking pace, so as not to endanger pedestrians.
The zones themselves are five: the Кнез Михаилова street zone in the old centre, twenty-one streets and street sections; the Скадарска street zone, five; the Магистратски трг zone in Земун, four; a fifth zone at Трг Николе Пашића added in January 2025; and a list the act calls 'other streets', which is where the scheme has grown — eleven entries now, after amendments in April 2022, December 2025 and March 2026 added Далматинска, Рајићева, Добрице Ћосића and Сребрничка and renamed the Карађорђева passage.
Supply is the one part of the rule that is written somewhere else: the act hands it to the city's separate freight decision, which is a different record in this corpus. Two practical things a driver should carry away. A permit for the zone is not a sticker you buy at the barrier: the written request has to reach the Secretariat's counter in the preceding month, at the latest ten days before the month it is for.
And access is physically controlled — the holder collects a TAG sticker from the city parking undertaking for the windscreen, and a driver with a decision but no sticker calls the control-room operator on the intercom at the access point.
Belgrade runs its freight rule as a permit regime with a hard ban inside it, and the two halves have to be read together.
The permit half: on the ten urban city municipalities — Вождовац, Врачар, Звездара, Земун, Нови Београд, Палилула, Раковица, Савски венац, Стари град and Чукарица — a goods vehicle whose maximum permitted laden mass exceeds 3.5 tonnes and which is NOT in transit may move, stop and park outside the established traffic regime only on the strength of a permit, issued as a решење by the city's Secretariat for Traffic.
Being in transit is the escape: a lorry driving through Belgrade on the motorway is not in this scheme at all, and the rule is aimed squarely at delivery and construction traffic with a destination in the city. What the permit then buys depends on the vehicle and on which side of a street-drawn line the destination sits.
Inside the central zone, a vehicle up to 12 tonnes supplying retail premises may move between 09:00 and 14:00 and between 18:00 and 07:00; a vehicle over 12 tonnes supplying building sites has the same two windows; concrete mixers supplying building sites may run at any hour; and specialised vehicles collecting used cooking oil and fat from catering premises may run from 19:00 to 07:00.
Outside that zone the same classes may move around the clock, and only the stopping and parking windows narrow. In every case a freight vehicle may stand on the carriageway while loading or unloading for no longer than fifteen minutes, and the permit itself may fix the exact route a named vehicle must take.
The ban half is Article 4 and it is not a permit question at all: a vehicle over 3.5 tonnes simply may not drive along Кнеза Милоша, Таковска, Коларчева, Теразије, Краља Милана, Славија, Булевар ослобођења between Славија and Бокељска, Војводе Степе, Булевар краља Александра between Трг Николе Пашића and Рузвелтова, Васина, Југ Богданова, Пожешка between Кировљева and Требевићка, Кировљева, Главна, or Трг Бранка Радичевића in Земун between 07:00 and 19:00.
Article 3 adds a bridge: nothing over 3.5 tonnes crosses the bridge in the extension of Бранкова street. Article 6 bars stopping and parking a freight vehicle at all on any street carrying a public-transport route during the same 07:00 to 19:00 hours.
Outside the ten urban municipalities the scheme does not stop — Младеновац has its own timetable in Article 7, and Барајево, Гроцка, Лазаревац, Обреновац, Сопот and Сурчин are covered by Article 8, where a permit is again the only way a vehicle over 3.5 tonnes leaves the established regime.
Two things a driver of a car should know and then forget: horse-drawn vehicles are banned across the whole city except on roads in farmland, and none of this touches a passenger car, whatever its engine or age. The scheme reads weight, not emissions.