License plate rationing (LPR) is an established measure to decrease car demand and thus decrease exhaust gas emissions. However, it has significant drawbacks: drivers can circumvent this policy by acquiring a second vehicle, and it does not account for the users’ necessity to drive their car. The Tradable Credit Scheme (TCS) was introduced about one decade ago as another Demand Management Strategy (DMS). We propose comparing LPR and TCS over a large and realistic simulation test case (morning commute in Lyon), considering several days as a horizon. A trip-based Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram (MFD) represents the congestion dynamics. The modal split between private cars and Public Transportation (PT) is computed at equilibrium. We show the TCS surpasses the LPR in terms of both social costs and carbon emissions.