The Carfree movement is a coalition of people who believe that it is important to reduce both the number of cars in the world, and the usage of them. It comprises: Jump to: navigation, search A small variety of cars, the most popular kind of automobile. ...

• those promoting alternatives to car dependence and car culture, including alternative transport methods such as cycling, walking and public transport;
• those promoting carfree lifestyle choices, within either a "car-dependent", "car-light" or "carfree" local context;
• those promoting the building of (usually mixed-use) carfree environments preferably on brownfield but also on greenfield sites;
• those promoting carfree days, using the events as tools to bring about long-term on-the-ground change in infrastructure and priorities (example: Bogotá); and
• those promoting the transformation of existing villages, towns and cities (or parts of them) into carfree environments.

Several terms have been coined, and have gained some currency within the movement: Jump to: navigation, search Cycling is a recreation, a sport, and a means of transport across land. ... Jump to: navigation, search Walking is the main form of animal locomotion on land, distinguished from running and crawling. ... Skytrain Bangkok. ... In town planning, brownfield land is an area of land previously used or built upon, as opposed to greenfield land which has never been built upon. ... Greenfield land is a term used to describe a piece of undeveloped land, either currently used for agriculture or just left to nature. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

Car-light - Either a person or place that is not completely carfree, but uses or allows for a variety of alternative transport modes in addition to the car. On a small scale, this is exemplified by the Living street or woonerf, now widespread in Northern Europe. In North America, the term Transit-oriented development is applied to car-light districts. The New Urbanists are a group of North American architects, developers and planners who promote and build environments that are somewhat car-light, expressly stating that the automobile must be accommodated. German Woonerf or living street (Dan Burden) A living street (also known as a home zone, and by the Dutch name woonerf) is a street in which, unlike in most streets, the needs of car drivers are secondary to the needs of users of the street as a whole. ... Transit-oriented development (TOD) refers to residential and commercial areas designed to maximize access to public transport, and often incorporates features to encourage transit ridership. ... Overview New Urbanism is an urban design movement that became very popular beginning in the 1980s and early 1990s. ...

Carfree environments - Places that do not accommodate (permit the entry of) automobiles. Some carfree environments allow motorised vehicles for deliveries and emergency services; other such places use non-motorised alternatives for some or all of these purposes, which is preferable if feasible. Some carfree environments have peripheral parking, and are thus still somewhat car-dependent; therefore solutions should be sought to avoid this. Some people take things a step further and work to encourage local use of local products, thus reducing the dependence of their carfree environment on long-distance goods transport and supporting the local economy over the transnational economy. It has been suggested that Pedestrian street be merged into this article or section. ...

See also

• Auto-free zone
• List of carfree areas
• Carfree day
• Reclaim the Streets
• Transport 2000

It has been suggested that Pedestrian street be merged into this article or section. ... The main square of Siena, Italy This is a list of noteworthy carfree areas. ... A Carfree day is a cooperative event that can be held at any time in which the people in a place come together to reflect on what their city would look like with a lot fewer cars, and what might be needed to make this work. ... Reclaim the Streets (RTS) is a group of people with a collective ideal of community ownership of public spaces. ...

External links

• World Carfree Network
• Car busters magazine
• Carfree.com
• Car Sharing - An alternative to private car ownership