The same design choices seen as impediments to a lifestyle centered around the automobile led to perceptions that Radburn can serve as precedent both for New Pedestrianism and for the car-free movement.

Over the first decade of the car-free day movement ( 1994 – 2005 ), the world has seen hundreds of cities giving the CFD ( Car Free Day ) approach a try in very different circumstances, some good, some undeniably bad, some of them on several occasions.

Proponents of the car-free movement focus on both sustainable transportation options and on urban design, zoning, school placement policies, urban agriculture, telecommuting options, and housing developments that create proximity or access so that long distance transportation becomes less of a requirement of daily life.

It publishes " energetic, information-packed " publications about the car-free movement.

Venice is Europe's largest urban car-free area.

The island is a car-free zone where the only vehicles allowed are horse-drawn vehicles, bicycles, tractors, and battery-powered buggies or motorised bicycles for elderly or disabled people.

Because the island is small and flat, only 200 islanders have taken out the special licence allowing them to keep their own car, with the result that the few streets are virtually car-free.

The main tourist attractions of Cape Arkona, the Königsstuhl and the Granitz hunting lodge are, however, car-free in order to protect the countryside, as is the island of Hiddensee which belongs to Vorpommern-Rügen district.

The island is partially car-free.

Off-season, driving by car is permitted everywhere, otherwise there are car-free zones.

Gulangyu is a car-free island off the coast of Xiamen, Fujian province in southern China, about in area.

Tresco is a car-free island.

The valley is car-free, except for the cars of residents.

* The track Eiger Nordwand in the games Gran Turismo HD Concept, Gran Turismo 5 Prologue and Gran Turismo 5 is set in Kleine Scheidegg, which is actually a car-free zone.

Other examples are Cinque Terre in Italy, Ghent in Belgium, which is one of the largest car-free areas in Europe and the Old Town of Rhodes, since many, if not most of the streets are too steep and / or narrow for automobile circulation.

Sark, an island in the English Channel is a car-free zone where only bicycles, carriages and tractors are used as transportation.

Supai, Arizona, located within the Havasupai Indian Reservation is entirely car-free, the only community in the United States where mail is still carried out by mule.

The Pedestrian Sundays festival is a car-free festival where the streets close to cars in several Sundays in the summer.

In spite of building reaching 15 stocks Avoriaz is unusually attractive amongst purpose-built ski resorts, featuring wooden buildings of a distinctive character and a car-free policy.

The centre of the old town consists of impeccably restored stone buildings and is largely car-free.

South Beach, along with a handful of other neighborhoods in Miami ( such as Downtown and Brickell ), is one of the areas where a car-free lifestyle is commonplace.

It is one of very few car-free resort villages in Europe, although there are a few service vehicles, local farm vehicles, electric vehicles for taxiing to and from the railway station.

The village is connected by the Luftseilbahn Stechelberg-Mürren-Schilthorn ( LSMS ), an aerial tramway, to the car-free skiing and hiking villages of Gimmelwald, Mürren and the Schilthorn, and over on the other side of the valley above the cliffs sits the car free village and resort of Wengen.

The most commonly used trail is a car-free loop around the park.

Loutro is car-free ; cars must be parked in Hóra Sfakíon or Paleohóra.

The bus line runs among the Five Colleges on frequent schedule seven days a week, allowing car-free travel to class and social events.

Road vehicles must be carried by boat or ferry to islands, and some locations are intentionally car-free.

At his funeral, his coffin was towed by bicycle through the streets of Oxford, in accordance with his wishes for the event to be car-free.

Most of the trail runs along a dedicated, car-free corridor maintained by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources as Little Miami State Park.

Due to the close proximity of Great island to the amenities on Fota Island, the development of a dedicated car-free walking and biking trail around the perimeter of Great island will be a major tourist attraction, particularly as the walking trail can be connected by ferry to the dedicated rail trail already existing between Passage West and Cork city.

Some communities are at least partially car-free, making them particularly supportive of walking and other modes of transportation.

The well known hiking and ski resorts in the eastern Oberland are located around Interlaken and the Jungfrau, such as car-free Mürren and Wengen in the Lauterbrunnen valley, and Grindelwald.

Pedestrian zones ( also known as auto-free zones and car-free zones ) are areas of a city or town reserved for pedestrian only use and in which some or all automobile traffic may be prohibited.

Algonquin and Ward's Islands, parts of the Toronto Islands group, are also car-free zones for all 700 residents.

The incorporated villages of Ocean Beach and Saltaire within Fire Island National Seashore are car-free during the summer tourist season ( Memorial Day through Labor Day ) and permit only pedestrian and bicycle traffic ( during certain hours only in Ocean Beach ).

The festival has since become an annual event, expanding to other parts of the city in 2008, and as of 2009, the Drive and Main St are to host car-free days every Sunday afternoon throughout July and August.

Additionally all the country lanes are almost car-free.

In addition, there are extensive multi-use car-free regional pathways linking the city and county to the surrounding areas.

A large number of European towns and cities have made part of their centres car-free since the early 1960s.

In order to facilitate transport from the car parkings in car-free cities ( located at the edge of the towns ), the implementation of bus stations, bicycle sharing stations, Shweeb terminus stations, ... near these car parkings increase transportation options.

In 1974 there were three nationwide car-free Sundays when private transport was prohibited as a result of the oil supply shock.

Automobile traffic has become common even though much of the island remains a car-free area.

Riverside Park also contains part of the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway which encircles Manhattan's waterfronts, with car-free bike routes.

Others link it largely to subjective lifestyle choices, differentiating between car-owning and car-free households.

Currently Bogotá holds the world's largest car-free weekday event covering the entire city.

The first car-free day was held in February 2000 and became institutionalised through a public referendum.

" Domeniche ecologiche 2001 "-The Italian Ministry of the Environment organises the first Ecological Sundays car-free program, running on five weekends.