Abstract
Aachen is well known for its car free measures introduced carefully and part-time for its historic centre. The results have been encouraging. However traffic policy in Aachen stands out less through the pedestrianisation of the centre than through its solid, encyclopaedic character: from a 30 km/h speed limit in all residential areas and adapting streets for the security of school pupils to a centrally managed parking guidance system and a new concept for the city centre. The almost business-like enumeration of measures suggests that traffic reform policy has found its course in Aachen. Working on a wide front with push as well as pull measures it looks like a relatively stable policy mix. (A)