Why Carfree? Why Now?

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Why Carfree? Why Now?
Steve Melia
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Carfree Housing (Camden)
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Definition of Carfree

• Traffic-free immediate environment
• Designed around movement by sustainable modes
• Parking limited and separated (physically
  cost) from housing

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Guide for Developers and Planners
Seewww.carfree.org.uk
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Why Carfree? Why Now?

• Climate Change
• Land Use (and profitability)
• Public Health
• Quality of Life

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UK CO2 by END USER
28.3
2006 Source www.defra.gov.uk
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Domestic Transport CO2
54.2
2005 (including international) Source
www.dft.gov.uk
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UK CO2 Trends (1990 100)
Transport
Other Sectors
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A Big Change
PPG3(2000)
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Does Intensification Reduce Car Use?

• Long-running debate
• Probably but relationship is weak
• Doubling of density ? 7 reduction in car use

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All things equal 2 x density 86 car
trips from the area
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Passenger Travel (billions km)
Others
Cars Vans
Source DfT Transport Trends 2007 www.dft.gov.uk
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Poundbury (Dorset) placing the pedestrian, and
not the car, at the centre of the design process
HRH Prince Charles, 2003
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Cambourne (Cambridgeshire) designed to reduce
the need for car use
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Sources Platt, C.A.R.L. (2008), Becker (U.W.E.
unpublished, 2006)
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A Profession in Denial?
The fact that all Poundbury residents are a
short walk from main roads with shops and offices
is reducing car use Andrew Cameron WSP
(2005) It is true that people use their cars.
But it is not necessarily because of a lack of
accessibility or poor pedestrian access. They
just choose to drive David Chare, Project
Director, Cambourne
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European Carfree Areas
Source Scheurer (2000). (Freiburg car ownership
updated)
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Obesity
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• 600 apartments 50 Social Housing
• 2 bed apartment, 100m2
• 400,000

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The Brunswick 2 BED 425,000
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Princesshay Exeter
140,000 (1 bed) 425,000 (2 bed)
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March 2007
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