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Carfree Area Pilot Project

"Falkenried Terraces", Hamburg, 2005, © M. Heller, www.autofrei-wohnen.de

SEARCH FOR MUNICIPALITIES
interested in realising a model settlement within the Carfree Area Pilot Project

Municipalities from all over Europe are invited to express interest in co-operating to realise new carfree model settlements in their area, demonstrating sustainable and liveable urban environments. There is a possibility of being involved in the international Carfree Area Pilot Project.

Benefits of a Carfree Area
A Carfree Area offers reduced air and noise pollution and a lower risk of injuries by traffic accidents. There is more space for people in an attractive, quiet, safe and healthy environment, promoting a slower-paced, more relaxed, healthier and thus more sustainable lifestyle. This allows more personal interaction with neighbours resulting also in the presence of more people in public areas during day and night thus creating a greater sense of community. And such developments contribute to diversify the housing market, giving people more choices about how they want to live.

Criteria
Interested municipalities are asked to send proposals for appropriate sites. Most important is the availability of an area of sufficient size to allow the advantages of carfree living (space for people, safety, lack of noise pollution, etc.) to be experienced and to accommodate a population and urban density high enough to support internal retail businesses and services (about 10 hectares), integrated in an axis of settlements with sufficient population to support attractive local public transport. In the carfree area the ownership of private cars should be avoided as far as possible.

The Carfree Area Pilot Project
The main matter of this project will be the development of concepts for the model settlements in selected municipalities (including the design of master plans) by a planning team in each municipality advised by the World Carfree Network Expert Team. A proposal for the project shall be submitted to the European Commission under the programme “INTELLIGENT ENERGY – EUROPE” in the field of Energy in transport (STEER).

Contact - project coordination:
- Franz Skala, Institute of Ecological Urban Development, A-Vienna
- Simon Field, Carfree UK, UK-Brighton
- Justin Hyatt, Zöld Fiatalok Egyesület - Hungarian Young Greens (ZöFi), HU-Budapest

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This page was last updated 16 January 2009