Do traffic rules apply in a car park located in a traffic zone?

In the video you are driving around a large car park in front of a shopping centre: white lines mark the lanes and parking spaces, there are bollards, and other vehicles are driving between the rows of cars. If the car park is in a traffic zone (strefa ruchu), road traffic rules apply there. The answer is: yes.

The Road Traffic Act states that it regulates traffic on public roads, in residential areas and in traffic zones, and a traffic zone is an area including at least one internal road, whose entrances and exits are marked with signs D-52 and D-53. So in a car park in a traffic zone signs apply, as do the right-hand rule at junctions of internal roads, giving way when leaving a parking space and the ban on driving after drinking alcohol, and the police can punish petty offences. Outside a traffic zone, on an internal road the Act applies only to the extent necessary to avoid danger and to the extent resulting from signs and signals, but caution applies everywhere.

Legal basis: Art. 1 para. 1 point 1 and para. 2 and Art. 2 point 16a of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym); § 60c of the Regulation on road signs and signals