Car-free movement
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The car-free movement is a broad, informal, emergent network of individuals and organizations including social activists, urban planners, transportation engineers and others, brought together by a shared belief that large and/or high-speed motorized vehicles (cars, trucks, tractor units, motorcycles, ...) are too dominant in most modern cities. The goal of the movement is to create places where motorized vehicle use is greatly reduced or eliminated, to convert road and parking space to other public uses and to rebuild compact urban environments where most destinations are within easy reach by other means, including walking, cycling, personal transporters, low impact vehicles such as golf carts, neighborhood electric vehicles, kei cars and quadricycles, mobility as a service or public transport.
See also
- Alternatives to car use
- Automobile dependency
- Car costs
- Car-Free Days
- Effects of the car on societies
- Jan Gehl
- List of car-free places
- Peak car
- Principles of Intelligent Urbanism
- Spatial mismatch
