Urban Vehicle Access Regulations (UVARs) are a useful tool used widely in Europe that help the move towards people-friendly cities and help reduce transports climate impact. They include pedestrian zones, low emission zones, congestion charging, traffic limited zones, pedestrian priority zones and spatial interventions.
The EU Horizon 2020 project ReVeAL produced a toolkit to support decision makers in the process of planning and implementing UVARs. Its aim is to help cities in their path towards people centred urban spaces by giving urban road space back to people and sustainable mobility. This toolkit was developed and tested within the six ReVeAL city pilots during three and a half years of the project.
This article outlines how other cities can use the ReVeAL toolkit to develop good practice UVARs.
The ReVeAL toolkit consists of:
The toolkit is outlined in the tools section of the Eltis website here.
You can also find an article summarising ReVeAL here, and information and presentations from the final conference launching the toolkit here.