Samenvatting

Nowadays, the air pollution caused by car-use in urban environment has led cities to look for a reduced use of motorised transportation means. The concept of car-free cities is for this reason emerging with the intend to shift mobility systems toward a new, healthier and less oriented towards fossil fuels system. This report researches ways to implement car-free areas and more precisely key elements or guidelines through European initiatives and examples. Studying the cities of Almere, in the Netherlands, and Lille, in France, this work intends to come up with comparison means and ways to implement measures on areas that are different in their urban developmentbut similar on their scale.