Design, innovation, technology

Since its creation in 1995, the Société en commandite Stationnement de Montréal has been a major player in the development of operational solutions for urban travel. Originally founded to ensure the optimal management of municipal paid on-street and off-street parking, the Société was quickly recognized for its innovation, its advantageous use of cutting-edge technologies and the harmonious integration of its installations into the urban landscape.


Its Pay and Go system won the prestigious Award of Merit from the International Parking Institute in the category: Innovation in a parking operation or program.





New challenges for the future

In 2007, the Ville de Montréal, as part of the Réinventer Montréal transportation plan, offered a unique challenge to the Société. Stationnement de Montréal inherited a mandate to create, install and exploit the first large-scale public bike system in North America. Once again, Stationnement de Montréal excelled in creating a system far in advance of any system currently in existence in the world. BIXI, the name given to Montréal’s system, will be officially launched in spring 2009.

Other projects in development, all using the latest technologies, will be deployed in the years to come.


At the service of the Ville de Montréal and its residents

Every year, Stationnement de Montréal pays the Ville de Montréal a good part of the revenue it earns from operating public parking. Since its founding, Stationnement de Montréal has remitted to the Ville de Montréal more than $192.2 million for the benefit of Montrealers. Stationnement de Montréal employs 90 people, including 65 employees of the Ville de Montréal.


Legal status

The Société en commandite Stationnement de Montréal (Stationnement de Montréal) is a subsidiary of the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montréal. By its very nature, Stationnement de Montréal has no board of directors. Accesum Inc., its general partner, acts on behalf of Stationnement de Montréal. The Board of Trade is the limited partner of Accesum.


Combating dropping out of school

Since its founding in 1995, Stationnement de Montréal has collaborated in the fight against students dropping out of school by donating every year a percentage of its annual profits to the Fonds Ville-Marie, sponsor of the projet Classe Affaires, which offers students in Grades 10 and 11 real-world professional development training. Over the years, Stationnement de Montréal has contributed more than $6.2 million for the benefit of Montreal youth.


Giving life to a social economy enterprise

Stationnement de Montréal has chosen to grant the mandate of for the maintenance of the public bike system’s bicycles to an organization helping to integrate youth into the workforce. The organization was set up by the Corporations de développement économique communautaire (CDEC). Selected young people will be trained at the Père-Marquette secondary school within the framework of a work/study program. The young mechanics will acquire the specific expertise that these exclusively designed bikes require, and will also be trained to answer questions from bike users.