An integrated automatic system for remote monitoring and management of vehicle access and parking in urban areas on a selective bases comprises: a mobile recognition device (17), in which a user code is memorised, and which can be positioned inside a vehicle (18); a detection sensor (11) installed close to a respective parking space (19); a network connecting the detection sensors (11) to a fixed data collection station (20); a control centre (21), connected to the second network, for decoding and reprocessing the data.