Abstract
This article shows that a lot of things can go wrong in restraining car traffic as it is implemented in an ever changing, complicated urban environment. Most of the time solutions can be found. The authors suggests that it might help to make individual compensation possible. If the results of car restraint are on average positive that does not hold automatically for all the individual shops, firms or households - some of them may indeed be hurt badly. Another suggestion is to pool knowledge through specialization: by forming public private partnerships to function as entrepreneurs in traffic calming ("city centre traffic calming developer"). (A)