Barcelona is aiming to reduce emissions by changing the flow of traffic to allow more cycling and promote pedestrian friendly neighbourhoods. Barcelona’s urban mobility plan explores...

Paris uses a sticker system assigned to vehicles to restrict vehicle access into the city centre and therefore reduce emissions. Crit’Air is a six category sticker system that applies to all...

To reduce unnecessary emissions from idling vehicles parking or stopping, New-York City introduced an anti-idling law in 2009. Inside areas where the law operates, no one should allow the...

Freiburg’s long term strategy has tackled emissions by reducing car ownership in certain parts of the city. The city has discouraged car ownership through a range of policies such as forcing...

The city has set the explicit aim of becoming the world’s best cycling city and measures to make cycling easier, faster and safer feature heavily in the local policy agenda. In Copenhagen,...

Los Angeles is tackling the problem of cars driving around looking for somewhere to park, therefore producing unnecessary congestion and pollution, by introducing a demand-based parking system...

Milan is one of five cities around the world to have introduced a congestion charge in its central ‘Area C’. This was introduced in January 2012, initially as a pilot programme with objectives...

Nottingham City Council is the only local authority to have used the powers granted to them in the Transport Act 2000 to establish a levy on workplace parking spaces to date. The WPL was...

Taxing congestion raises revenues for London while changing behaviour, making it an efficient form of taxation, and one ideal for large cities. London’s Congestion Charge (CC) is an £11.50...