Residents, second home dwellers or tourism visitors are welcome to The Trabucador. However, if second home dwellers or tourism visitors decide to arrive/go to Trabucador by private vehicle (car, motorhomes, caravans, etc) there is a time limit to park and a price to be paid during summer. If they come walking or cycling there is no time limit, and no price is to be paid. Vehicles registered in the municipality, vehicles of companies operating in the Trabucador, vehicles of their clients, emergency vehicles do not have to pay. Moreover, it is prohibited to park from 11pm to 6am to avoid camping cars or motorhomes or caravans to overnight at the Trabucador. Hence, the achievement is a nature experience, without overcrowding, where cars are only occupy a delimited space for a period of time. A Plan of Usage was developed allowing the town council of La Ràpita to adapt the beach to implement a parking limitation activity, with the necessary infrastructures for this purpose. The technological system depends on solar power, it is removed at the end of the season and there is no paper needed since the transactions are digital.

The town council with the support of the Delta de l'Ebre Nature Park, the Coastal Service of the Generalitat of Catalonia, the Ministry and the companies of Traducador decided that the situation had to stop since it was damaging the image of the destination and it was not sustainable for this nature gem. ALTER ECO PLUS project helped rethinking the prices and time slots.This system and its improved version has obtained further digitalisation of tourism companies and users, major awareness over the use of vehicles to access nature, a clear reduction on vehicles at Trabucador and demonstrating to other mayors of towns and cities that measures can be taken for the sake of sustainability. Find out more here.