Impact of Car Free City on Health, Tourism, and Economy

This report analyzes the impact of car free city on health, tourism, and economy. It discusses the changes in citizen exercise, mental health, and health due to reduction in use of motor vehicles. It also talks about the impact on tourism, hospitality, and events industries and the economic impacts of car free city. The report concludes with recommendations for promoting electric vehicles, banning honking, promoting cycling, and improving public transport.

CAR FREE CITY

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
Recommendation.............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Car free city is one of population centre which is depended on walking, public transport and
recycling for transport in different urban areas. It is a city where different motorised vehicles are
totally banned which is consider as car free zones (Bhagra and Sharma, 2018). Care free city is a
model that has gain traction due to various reason like current issues with infrastructure,
congestion, quality of life benefit, proposed environmental benefits. It is providing their service
in different places like Asia, Africa, Europe and other many cities continued to build different
car free areas for various reason liker inception before origin of auto mobile. There are different
cities in Asia which are using proposed model for modernise their infrastructure. It offer mobility
to people which saves their cost of fuel and also attract tourism in country. It reduce pollution
level in city which is good for health of people. City which is car free provide different benefits
to people living in that area as it improve both mental as well as physical health of people with
controlling level of pollution in that areas (Wette, 2019). Different stakeholders are to be
involved in car free city like corporate bodies, government, environmental bodies, people. These
stakeholders are contributing in car free city centre in different ways as UK government made
different regulation related to air quality as well as other polity which helps them to reduce level
of pollution in city and motivate people to follow these rules and regulation. People living in that
city are another stakeholder for car free city centre as these people are the one who are avoid use
of motor vehicle in their city instead using electric car. There are different cities which are
adopting car free city centre like Melbourne city centre, Rundle mall Adelaide, Ghent and many
more. This project report includes analysation of impact of social and health care of car free city.
It describe different issues which are related to economic impact of car free city. Moreover it
discuss recommendation for maximising benefits of car free city centre.
TASK
Health Impact:
Car free city centre create good opportunity for health of people living in a particular city. There
are various changes occur in exercise and health of people living in that city (Fair and Kondo,
2020). Car free city centre is helping in reducing of noise honking as well as pollution level in
city. It helps in improving health of different people living in that city like children, young and
old age people. It provide fresh air to people which is good for them and provide benefits to

asthmatic patient. It make a person physically fit and allow them to work with dedication. There
are various health impact of car free city centre which are as follows:
Changes in citizen exercise: In today's environment, car is mostly used vehicle for purpose of
travelling among people. Increasing use of car for transportation increase pollution level in
environment which is not good for health of people. Implementing car free city centre create
changes in exercise of citizen. In this city, there is increasing use of electric vehicle in city and
people are avoiding motor vehicles. In this city, people are highly use cycles for purpose of
transportation which make them fit and also reduce their cost of fuel.
Impact on mental health: Car free city create positive impact over mental health of people as
increasing use of electric vehicle and avoiding use of motor vehicle reduce pollution level in city.
Increasing pollution does not provide fresh air to people which make them disturbed and create
frustration and other disease to them (Granruth and Pashkova-Balkenhol, 2018). Increasing noise
pollution does not allow a person to concentrate on their work. Use of motor car in city cause
green house emission, air pollution, noise pollution, increase in temperature which is not good
for people as it does not provide them fresh air and also cause them mental disease like
depression and other things.
Changes in health due to reduction in use of motor vehicles: Car free city avoid use of motor
vehicles and increase use of electric vehicles or cycles which create positive impact on health of
of people. It make a person to physically fit as they are using cycles which good for their health.
Avoiding use of motor vehicle in city make environment more cool and and avoiding different
disease like depression, asthma and others.
Impact on tourism, hospitality and events industries: In a running time Tourism, Hospitality
and Event industry are growing fast with the time. It gives various benefits to those country
where tourist visit and they also help local people by providing various opportunities in order to
get employments and profits (Griffin and Coelhoso, 2019). Car free city helps countries in order
to enhance its natural beauty and make pollution free environment which helps it to attract many
tourists towards it. Car free city have various impacts on tourism, hospitality and events
industries in context oh this, they are discussed below:-
Impact on the city as a tourist destination: With the help of car free city centre it make
positive image of city in minds of tourist. According to car free city centre there are very less
pollution on this type of city so, this will provide great impact on tourist and also help the city by

making them tourist destination. Most of people like to visit those places where pollution are
very low which create strong impact on their physical and mental health. It helps city by making
tourist destination which create demand in order to attract more tourist and create demand of this
places which create great opportunity for their local people in order to earn profit and also get
employment. It also make great impact on economy of that city.
Change in type of event which can be hosted in city: Events are important and beneficial for
tourism industry because it helps them in order to attract more and more people towards it. In
international events people come from different countries which also helps tourism and
hospitality industry to earn profit from it (Jensen, 2019). Car free city create changes in those
type of events or may also avoid those events which may cause pollution and also harm city or
there people. It basically avoid those events which is organise in car free city because it causes
pollution and have negative impacts on environment.
Opportunities for new hospitality business: Car free city are that city which is free
from pollution and also free from motor cars where people enjoy greenery and take natural air. It
help countries in order to attract more and more tourist by making pollution free cities (Yu,
2021). Tourist basically wants to visit those places where can get fresh and natural air because of
its pollution free environment. It help tourist to take great experience from it and also make their
life stress free. It will be beneficial for hospitality industry of that country because it attract more
tourist which create great opportunity for them in order to earn more and more profit from it.
Economic Impacts: Economic factors are those factors of the country which related to their
economy such as tax, interest, imports and exports and so on. Car free city centre helps different
country in order to creating healthy environment of their city which increases hospitality and
tourist industries there (Lee and Lee, 2018). It create great advantage for the country by making
great opportunities in country. Car free city centre helps country in order to promote research
and innovation which helps them to earn profit by selling pollution free technologies in other
countries. In context of car free city centre its economic impacts are discussed below:-
Impact related to employment: With the help of car free city centre it increases
employment in a country because it create pollution free environment which attract more and
more tourist from different countries. It create great opportunity for local people in order to get
employed because of existence of natural air and pollution free environment there which attract
many tourist in order to visit there which helps tourism and hospitality industry to create

employment and also earn profit from it. It create great advantage for business by decreasing cost
of fuel and other transport. It is also beneficial for the people by maintaining their physical and
mental health.
Cost to taxpayer: Car free city centre is beneficial for tax payers in order to reduce their cost.
This will happen because of subsidies which is provided by the government basically on
pollution free vehicles because it help country in order to protect environment (Lin and
Magnuson, 2018). Taxpayers can save their cost by purchasing pollution free things in order to
encourage environment protection policies. Car free city centre also help government by utilising
tax amount in good work.
Impact on businesses: Car free city centre provide good and bad impacts on businesses
because it create great opportunity to them to distinguish their products from other. Pollution free
city create advantage for the business in order to sell natural products which is pollution free in
nature. With the help of this business can manufacture pollution free vehicles which create new
innovation in the market and also become competitive. Due to increase in cost of transportation,
car free city centre is also give negative impacts on business.
Other analysis:
Environmental impacts: Car free city centre is also provide great impact on environment by
avoiding or not allowing car in the city and only allow pollution free vehicles only in order to
maintain healthy environment (Tan and Laswad, 2018).
Social Impacts: It also create positive impact on society in order to promote those habits of
people which is good for their physical and mental health and also help country by maintaining
healthy environment.
CONCLUSION
From above mentioned project report, it can be concluded that car free city centre help country in
order to improve their public transport of urban areas which help to make healthy environment
for their peoples. It also helps in analysing various current problem of the country such as
infrastructure, congestion, environmental and quality. Car free city centre is beneficial for
countries by reducing air and noise pollution in cities. It create great impact on people life by
maintaining their physical and mental health. With the help of this people changing their habits
such as they reach their destination by walking which is also good for their health. It also create

impacts on tourism, hospitality and event industry as well as on economy also. In accordance
with this it create an pollution free and healthy environment which attract many towards it.
Recommendation
 From above mentioned discussion it can be recommended that there should be increasing
use of electric vehicles in city which helps them to reduce negative impact of motor
vehicles. For this, government should promote electric vehicles in city and make people
aware with benefits of these car free city centre.
 It is also recommended that government should banned honking, unwanted sound, noise
in a economy which allow people to concentrate on work and also does not disturb them.
It allow government to promote a city which is full of peace and also enhance their
health. This peace allow them to focus on their work and develop new ideas.
 It is also suggested that government is should promote use of cycle in their country which
is food for people as it allow them to do some physical exercise. It enhance health of
people which make them physically fit and also reduce possibility of problems like fat,
cervical pain and many more. It build a healthy habit among people which can be move
to generation to generation.
 It is also advised to government for making car free city centre that they should make
public transport facility for effective. They should ensure effective pedestrian facility
which should be convenient for walking and sales their cost of transportation.

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