Car Free City Centre: Economic, Environmental and Social Perspective

This report discusses the impact of car free city centre on economic, environmental and social perspective. It includes analysis of economic impact, environmental impact and social impact. It also provides recommendations to maximise the benefits of car free city centre.

Report writing

Executive summary
Car free city centre is an idea which is effective and allow to get better impact on
individuals life. There are different perspective which includes economic, environmental and
social perspective. Through adopting car free city centre allow to adopt different benefits that
allow to get better benefits to the large population. There are many benefits of applying the
concept of car free city centre. In this, there is discussion about the economic issues that are
included due to adopting the car free city centre. There is also some recommendation that allows
to get better impact on adopt car free city centre.

Table of Contents
Executive summary..........................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
ANALYSIS......................................................................................................................................1
The economic impact.............................................................................................................1
The impact from environmental perspective..........................................................................2
Impact from social perspective...............................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
RECOMMENDATION...................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Car free city centre refers to the place where number of cars are used in the limited number
and have better impact on environment and others perspective. This is effective and allow to
improve the life more effectively where use of sustainable mode of transport in higher number.
This is an idea which is effective and are implementing in different countries which have high
positive impact on the different perspective which includes the economic, social and health
Impact. Car free city centre does not mean that there is no use of cars in the city. It means that
there is use of public transport and other sustainable mode of transportation and minimum use of
cars within city. This allow to provide high benefits to environment and other stakeholders some
benefits for increase the living standard with quality of life (Padma & Ahn (2020)).
There are various stakeholders who are involve in making city care free. This is the one in
which there are number of people like local public, businessman, governmental bodies and others
are highly involving and contribute in making city car free. In this, local public have their main
role in making the area car free. This can have high impact and individual should minimise the
use of personal vehicle and should use the public transport or other transportation mode which
are sustainable in nature like bicycle. This can help and allow to contribute in making city car
free. These stakeholders are the one who are involve in the place to make city car free and
contribute to maintain this. Others tourist and guest form other place are also the stakeholders
which enhance the glory of car free city centre. It attracts large number of population to spend
their time at such place like car free city centre (Jacobs & et. al., (2020)).
In this, report there is discussion about the different health impact which may include
changes in citizen’s exercise, impact on mental health, changes in mode of transportation. This
report also includes the economic impacts which may include employment impact, costs of
taxpayer along with business impact. This report also includes the environmental perspective
which includes the impact on city’s carbon footprint along with sustainability, impact on climate
and pollution and environmental impact due to construction work (Amore & et. al., (2018)).
ANALYSIS
The economic impact
Impact related to employment- While adopting the car free city centre there is high impact
on the job loss along with job creation. In this, due to decrease in the number of care there is
1

highly loss of job of taxi drivers who were employed due to driving car and taxies. There is also
positive impact with creation of job regarding different street food and other job which can be
done at that place. There can be opportunity to increase the number of job that can allow to get
better and effective job creation and contribute in the country economy (Porru & et. al., (2020)).
Cost of the taxpayer- Due to adopting the car free city centre, it provides better
environment to the taxpayer which can have better result in order to cost to the taxpayer. There is
high impact on the taxpayer due to getting better environment and using of their taxes on their
better benefits through implementing the concept of car free city centre. This provides better cost
to the taxpayer where they get high benefits through adopting this concept and getting different
benefits. This allow to get better perspective through using the correct way that can allow to
receive the better interaction in the society. This allow to provide better economic of country
through using taxpayer money in right and appropriate development (Dodds & et. al., (2019)).
Impact on businesses- There is high impact on the business due to car free city centre. This
allow to get better opportunity for people to save their cost of fuel due to adopting the car free
city centre. There is high impact on the business of the automobile where sales of the business
get decreases. Adopting the car free city centre decrease the demand of cars within city that
allow to loss in the economy that can affect country. There is also impact on the fuel costs due to
less demand of fuel that cause due to not using cars. That create the challenge for the existing
business like automobiles and other transportation. This impact the country economy in negative
way but have better perspective due to higher use of public transport and other sustainable mode
of transport (Chan & et. al., (2018)).
The impact from environmental perspective
There is different environmental perspective which can impact the different relevant issues
like impact the carbon footprint and sustainability within city, impact on climate and pollution
along with environmental impact of construction work. These are the issues which are discussed
in detail (Zhang & et. al., (2017)).
Impact on city’s carbon footprint along with sustainability- Through enabling the car free
city centre, there are different benefits that can help to control and minimise the impact of carbon
emission. This is one of the major cause of carbon emission within city. Through applying the
concept of car free city centre allows to get better and effective idea to decrease the carbon
footprint emission. This is effective and allow to minimise carbon emission due to less use of
2

number of car within city. Car free city centre have less number of cars which are used within
city and leads to cause less impact on the environment to decrease the impact of pollution and
other impact. Car free city centre have high potential to decrease the amount of pollution within
environment. This can be effective and through using less number of cars and using public
transport and other sustainable mode of transportation help in transportation for large population.
This cause positive impact on the environment and help to decrease the use of private cars. This
have the result that can help to minimise the carbon footprint along with improving the
sustainability (Mugion & et. al., (2018)).
Impact on pollution and climate- This is another issue which can be resolved or minimise its
impact through applying the concept of car free city centre. Due to use of less number of car
there is less emission of carbon that causes due to car use. This can help to reduce the carbon
emission and have better impact on the environment which allow to get fresh air within city. This
is effective and attract large number of population to live in such type of place within minimum
and less pollution. There is high impact on the climate due to changing in the city environment
and pollution level. Due to decrease in the pollution, climate can get better and effective which
can have positive impact and help to improve the environmental impact. Through adopting the
car free city centre have also impact on individual health. This can help to get better climate and
reduce the pollution within city that allow to consume better quality of air. Through
improvement in the climate, it helps to reduce the heat within city and provide lower temperature
(Abrate & et. al., (2019)).
Impact of construction work that should be done- For any country, there is need for the
construction work which cannot be stopped. Construction work create pollution within city that
impact on the environment within city. Through using the concept of car free city centre, there is
need for the construction work which should be done to implement this more effectively. This
can impact on the environment due to creating pollution within city. There is high impact on the
environment and climate which get polluted due to the construction work for implementing the
car free city centre. There is negative impact of construction work within city because it creates
pollution which cannot be controlled but can be minimised through using different techniques
and ways. Construction work is compulsory and can be avoided for some time but not for longer.
Construction work on large number can be effective and increase the pollution level within city.
3

This can have impact on the environment and climate through increase in the pollution
(Yigitcanlar & et. al., (2019)).
Impact from social perspective
Car free city centre can impact individual social life which have high perspective to deal
with better environment. There are some issues which may include the public response to
changes and response of society, changes to demographic of area and change in crime rate and
other crime. These are the issues that are going to be discussed further.
Public response towards changes along with response of society- There is high impact on
social perspective which includes the difficulty which regards the changes. There are many
people who don’t like changes within their city. They like to live their life previously and should
not expect major changes. Through applying the car free city centre there are many people who
may protest against it because of getting adopt of suing their car for their personal and other
work. This is effective and should impact the social perspective regarding adopting change. This
can impact their life which can relate with the public response. There is high impact on public
life due to impacting on their lifestyle (Bragg & et. al., (2018)). There is high impact on people
life when they like to go out they like to use their car rather than using public transport. In this,
they should use the sustainable mode of transportation which can be effective and allow to get
better impact on the social environment. There is also positive and negative response of society
which can impact the social life. There is positive response that they may get attract towards the
better environment which can help to attain better health. They may get better and pollution free
place for street plays and to perform other entertaining activities. These are some of the
perspective which can impact the social life though adopting the car free city centre.
Change in demographic area- There is high impact on the demographic area due to adopting
the car free city centre. Due to getting better and effective environment that can allow to get
better attraction towards better environment. There is increasing in the number of people due to
getting better place in perspective of social and environmental. People attract towards such type
of area which allow to get increase in the population. This is effective and have positive impact
on individual quality of life. This allow to get better and effective society where people like to
live and stay better time. There is also high impact of making car free city centre which allow to
make people live in good environment where they can get social and enjoy outside. This allow to
get socialise with others people to make better and effective social life with better interaction
4

with others. In such type of place people like to move outside for getting fresh air and enjoy their
day and evening for better mental health (Gössling & et. al., (2019)).
Changes in crime along with prevalent types of crime- Due to adopting car free city centre, there
is increase in the crime rate because people like to live outside late night which attract criminals
as an opportunity which can influence to increase in the crime rate. Due to this, at such place
there is increase in the number of polish patrolling for the better security. This allow to get better
safe environment for large population who like to spend their time at that place outside. There is
some type of crime like robbing and theft get increase within city where security arrangement is
increased to control over it. People like to live effectively without getting worry about any
negative impact on their social life. They like to roam around and enjoy their life. This enhance
their quality of life due to adopting the car free city centre (Bocken & et. al., (2019))
.
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it can conclude that there is high impact of car free city centre.
There is high impact on people life which can impact through different perspective which
includes social, environmental and economic perspective. There is high impact on employment,
costs to taxpayer, impact on business. There are many benefits of adopting car free city centre
which includes in perspective of social, environmental and economic. Through this, people get
attract towards the life of social wellbeing and improve the interactions with others. There is also
discussion about the environmental perspective which includes impact on carbon footprint along
with sustainability, impact on pollution and climate and impact of construction work which
needs to be done. This report also consists of social perspective which includes public response
towards changes along with society, changes in demographic area and crime rates and prevalent
type of crime.
RECOMMENDATION
To maximise the benefits through adopting the car free city centre there are some
recommendation that should be implement for more benefits. These some of the
recommendations are going to be discussed further.
Using sustainable mode of transport like cycle or electric vehicle- This recommendation can
be more effective and have better positive impact that can allow to provide high benefits.
5

Through using the sustainable mode of transportation like using cycle and electric vehicle can
allow to decrease the pollution level and help in adopting better environment. This have high
impact on maintaining better environment that can help to get better health with quality of life.
Increase security to minimise crime- This is an effective way to reduce the risk of crime
which can be there through increase the number of security guard or surveillance that can help to
keep eye on place and help to reduce the crime rate and make better place to live.
Employment through creating job- It is recommended that through adopting the car free city
centre, there is need to ensure that government should allow people and local people to do
business which can help to increase the employment within local area and can help to contribute
in country economy.
Through creating awareness about the benefits of car free city centre- It is recommended that
there is need to create awareness about the benefits of adopting the car free city centre that can
help to get better understanding about its implementation and can help to provide better impact
on the people thinking.
6

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Abrate & et. al., (2019). Personal or product reputation? Optimizing revenues in the sharing
economy. Journal of Travel Research, 58(1), 136-148.
Amore & et. al., (2018). Conceptualizing destination resilience from a multilevel
perspective. Tourism Review International, 22(3-4), 235-250.
Bocken & et. al., (2019). Sustainable business model experimentation by understanding
ecologies of business models. Journal of Cleaner Production, 208, 1498-1512.
Bragg & et. al., (2018). Marketing food and beverages to youth through sports. Journal of
Adolescent Health, 62(1), 5-13.
Chan & et. al., (2018). Towards resilient flood risk management for Asian coastal cities: Lessons
learned from Hong Kong and Singapore. Journal of Cleaner Production, 187, 576-589.
Dodds & et. al., (2019). The phenomena of overtourism: A review. International Journal of
Tourism Cities.
Gössling & et. al., (2019). Sharing versus collaborative economy: how to align ICT
developments and the SDGs in tourism?. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 27(1), 74-96.
Jacobs & et. al., (2020). Containing COVID-19 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo:
Government Measures and Women's Compliance. Journal of African Law, 1-24.
Mugion & et. al., (2018). Does the service quality of urban public transport enhance sustainable
mobility?. Journal of Cleaner Production, 174, 1566-1587.
Padma & Ahn (2020). Guest satisfaction & dissatisfaction in luxury hotels: An application of big
data. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 84, 102318.
Porru & et. al., (2020). Smart mobility and public transport: Opportunities and challenges in rural
and urban areas. Journal of traffic and transportation engineering (English edition), 7(1),
88-97.
Yigitcanlar & et. al., (2019). Disruptive impacts of automated driving systems on the built
environment and land use: An urban planner’s perspective. Journal of Open Innovation:
Technology, Market, and Complexity, 5(2), 24.
Zhang & et. al., (2017). School travel mode choice in Beijing, China. Journal of transport
geography, 62, 98-110.
7