Zusammenfassung der Ressource
GCSE GEOGRAPHY CCEA
FRIEBURG, GERMANY CASE STUDY
- The city - 200,000 people, Southern
Germany,Historic City centre within old walls
- Impacts
- 4,000 fewer cars each day than in 1970
- 70% of local trips made on the tram
- Public Transport use, doubled since 1980
- All this reduces congestion, fuel use and pollution ensuring that Freiburg's
transport system is becoming more sustrainable
- People Travelling in the wider region are still affected
by policies that encourage car use.
- Even with all these policies people still use cars in
freiburg.
- Solutions
- Pedestrianised city centre
- Improved Public
Transport,
- Very cheap fares - on nonpolluting trams.
- Park and Ride facilities on
edge of city for commuters.
- 200 miles of city paths, cycle storage at tram stops so people
can bike and ride
- No free car parking in city centre
- City is compact, 70% of people live near a tram
stop
- Problems - Poplulation growth leading to increased traffic congestion in narrow city centre streets