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If you want to use the data for non-private use, then conditions apply.

For students, please quote www.urbanaccessregulations.eu as the source.

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We also have other data and other data formats that you might find useful and interesting.

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For those wanting to use our data for commercial use, we have a range of offerings.

A licence fee for using the data from our website for usage by or on behalf of commercial organisations.
An Online Dashboard with summary UVAR data from the website
An Excel spreadsheet with all Zero Emission Zone (ZEZs) at local, regional and national levels, confirmed as well as planned ZEZs, and their status.
Timeline presented for the ZEZ data
Overview table of Low Emission Zones (LEZs), or of all Urban Vehicle Access Regulations (UVARs).
Providing our data on your online maps.
APIs for the Dashboard, map and city data, to be able to incorporate the data in your offerings.

See the examples below (please note, the data in the example pictured above is not updated).

All information and formats below are copyright Sadler Consultants Europe GmbH.

ZEZ Plans & Bans:

This gives ZEZ schemes, classified by their status in terms of confirmed or not. It includes those at national, city and regional level, from city ZEZs to ICE phaseout of different vehicle types. It also includes Net Zero, Climate Neutral etc targets, usually at city level. Focus on Europe, but increasing coverage outside Europe.

ZEZ Plans & Bans Timeline in presentation form (template without data shown)

This is the data from the ZEZ Plans and Bans, presented on a timeline to give an overview. There are different sheets for different aspects (city / national / climate neutral) etc. We have needless to say removed the data for this image. There are a number of timelines, one for ZEZs, National/regional ICE bans, Net Zero aims at city and national levels and diesel bans.

Dashboard:

With current, future and past confirmed schemes - a summary of the data on our website. As it is based on information on our website, it is confirmed schemes only. Each phase of each scheme has its own row, with the details given. Dashboard is available in an online version or an API.

Dashboard Picture

Urban Vehicle Access Regulation (UVAR) Executive Summary:

This is if you like an Executive Summary of our website. As it is based on information on our website, it is confirmed schemes only. It is also, at the national level, the overview of the frameworks that might enable, indicate or require, future schemes to come. We include all the schemes types in this summary.

UVAR Executive Summary sample data

www.urbanaccessregulation.eu API data in your Apps

This is one example of CLARS API usage, from ACE Auto Club Europa e.V., a German Car Club, and they provide reliable German LEZ data from CLARS to their members through their App. The CLARS map, city data and Dashboard are all available as API data.

(Data copyright Sadler Consultants, presentation by ACE Auto Club Europa e.V.).

Here are some external weblinks you may also find useful, in addition to the city and country websites. Please note, we take no responsibility for external websites.

We have information on urban charging schemes. Other websites provide other information (no responsibility is taken for external websites):

European public transport travel planners
European national travel planners, local transport operators,

Global map of public transport
See what public transport is available. Not all cities are available, zoom in to get the transport lines. Press the play button, and the dots move according to timetable.

Choosing the right transport method
The EU's Do The Right Mix website

More efficient driving
The EU's Green Driving Tool, that helps you to reduce fuel costs and to select a suitable type of car for your purposes/journeys while reducing CO₂ emissions

European motorway tolls
From the UK Automobile Association: www.theaa.com/allaboutcars/overseas/european_tolls_select.jsp

From the hire car company Sixt: www.sixt.com/toll-roads/

Coach Parking Sites:
A German-based website for European coach parking sites: http://busparkplatz.eu/
Interactive map for parking in London: www.tfl.gov.uk/info-for/coach-drivers

Lorry Parking Site: The IRU website provides truck parking sites within its TRANSPark site: http://www.iru.org/transpark-app
Car Parking Information: Information on parking throughout Europe can be found on www.en.parkopedia.com/
European Commission, Clean Urban Transport page
http://ec.europa.eu/transport/themes/urban/index_en.htm

European Commission, Urban Mobility Package
http://ec.europa.eu/transport/themes/urban/ump_en.htm

UK Highways Agency Traffic Information page
www.highways.gov.uk/traffic-information

UK heavy goods vehicle (HGV) levy
https://www.gov.uk/hgv-levy (must be paid before driving a non UK registered HGV into the UK)

Dieselnet.com
A useful source of information on diesel exhaust emissions, emission control technologies, emission standards, regulations etc.
Emissions Analytics EQUA Air Quality Index allows you to identify the vehicle with the lowest fuel use, CO₂, or nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions in actual road conditions.

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Registered users T&C

Registration as a stakeholder gives you access to our periodic email alerts to find out when urban access regulation schemes are implemented or change. Registration may also give access to other aspects of the www.urbanaccessregulations.eu website as they may develop. See below for our Privacy Policy.

If you are registered with us we will not give your registration details to anyone else and we will keep them secure. You will be able to check the details given by you, online.
You can un-register at any time by sending an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., but this will mean you will not receive any alerts as to new or changed access regulation schemes.

Disclaimer

The purpose of this website is to give information for those needing to access cities with vehicles. We provide information on Access Regulation Schemes (ARS) in Europe. ARS include Low Emission Zones, Congestion Charging or any other scheme or measure where access is regulated or restricted.

The contents of this website are the sole responsibility of Sadler Consultants Europe GmbH and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union. The European Union endorses the English version of the website.

This website is for your information only. We take no responsibility for any action taken, or not taken, based on information on this website. Neither do we take responsibility for any problems you have or penalties you receive in any access restrictions.

The situation is regularly changing, new schemes are introduced or existing schemes altered. This site is regularly updated and makes reasonable efforts to be complete and accurate, however, this cannot be guaranteed. We can accept no responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of the information on this website, or for compliance of any individual vehicle with any scheme. We accept no responsibility for any action taken from information on this website. For the most accurate and up-to-date information on each scheme, please check the individual scheme website, which can be found from the city pages as well as the useful links pages.

All Schemes on this website have been officially confirmed as in operation or preparation. This may change, for example the air quality may improve through other means, or the start date may slip. There may also be schemes that are under preparation but not yet officially confirmed, that are not on this website.

We provide automatic translation to help you use the information. We accept no responsibility for the accuracy of translations. We are aware that automatic translations are not ideal, but try to keep our language simple, so the meaning of the translation is as clear as possible.

Information on exemptions are listed for your guide only. They are not officially translated, and we do not update them as often as other aspects of the data. The original on the city/regional/national website is the only accurate source.

The completeness of the different types of scheme varies. Low Emission Zones (LEZs) and Congestion or other urban road Charging Schemes (CS) should be fairly complete. The coverage of the Major Traffic schemes (Key-ARS) does not attempt to be comprehensive or cover every urban area, but to cover as many as possible within the remit of the project. It will include at least the cities over 500,000 population, more being collected over time. If you have information on any schemes, please This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., as it will help us provide more information for you and your colleagues.

Any maps used have been collected from public sources.

There are a number of links to external websites from this website. We cannot take responsibility for the content of these websites.

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Pictures

Maps of the cities, and pictures of the stickers etc are from official sources.

Photos are largely from websites from free to use and do not require attributes: pixabay.com, unsplash.com or freestockphotos.biz, or our own photos.

For a number of photos we have bought a licence from iStockphoto.com. These include: The Umweltzone road sign picture from the homepage . The Milan city photo from behind the city search.

Other photos are as per the source given.

Privacy Policy with Registration details

Introduction

Your privacy matters to us. This privacy policy covers all use of our website and registrations.

Who we are?

The urbanaccessregulations.eu website is run by Sadler Consultants Europe GmbH. Any questions about or to our companies data controller, please contact us by sending an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

What information do we collect?

We only hold the information on you that you gave during registration. For Stakeholder Registrations this is your email address. For Public Authority Member Registrations it will include contact name, organisation, phone number and address to enable us to confirm that you are working for a public authority, and therefore eligible for membership.

If you are registered with us, we will not give your details to anyone else and we will keep them secure.

You are able to ask for a copy we hold of any details given by you, by sending an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. If we have reason to doubt that the email is not genuine, we will reserve the right to withhold the information and take other means to confirm the sender of the email. In the case of Stakeholder registrations, the only information we hold is this email address.

You can un-register at any time by sending an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., but this will mean you will not receive any alerts as to new urban access regulation news.

How do we use personal information?

We use your details solely for work involved with our Urban Access Regulations website. This includes information on urban access regulations, updates when information changes. We may also on occasion include information on our urban access regulation related services that you might find useful, and that help fund our website.

What legal basis do we have for processing your personal data?

We only hold data which you have actively given to us, and thereby given your consent to us holding the data. You can withdraw that consent at any time by sending an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

When do we share personal data?

We do not share the emails we receive from you with anyone outside those who work for us. We treat your personal data confidentially and will only disclose or share it when you request a copy of the data we hold on you from the email address registered, or in the exceedingly unlikely case that we are asked to do by the police or similar law authorities.

Where do we store and process personal data?

The data is hosted within the EU, and when appropriate kept on a password protected PC of the director of Sadler Consultants Europe GmbH. We ask all those working for us to ensure that they do not copy the data from the server, and do not share the data.

How do we secure personal data?

We protect your data through our server that we protect and regularly backup. The only other place we hold the data is on the Directors password protected PCs in our Company's office.

How long do we keep your personal data for?

We will keep the data while we run an urban access regulation website, database, or information services, or until the owner of the data unregisters. At the stage we no longer run these services we will ensure that all copies of the data are deleted.

Your rights in relation to personal data

At any time you can email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to request deletion of the data or a copy of the data we hold on you. Any such request must be done from the email address in question, as we have no other way to confirm that the request comes from the correct person. Needless to say, we can only give information relevant to that email address. If we have reason to doubt that the email is not genuine, we will reserve the right to withhold the information and take other means to confirm the sender of the email. In the case of Stakeholder registrations, the only information we hold is this email address.

How to contact us?

For any queries on the above you can contact us by sending an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. We cannot accept privacy queries from any other medium, as the email address is the only way we have of confirming that that the person is the same as that registered.

Linking to other websites / third party content

Where we link to external websites and resources, this linkage does not constitute any form of endorsement of the websites, and we cannot take any responsibility for the content (or information contained within) any linked website.

Our cookie policy

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Who we are:

This website is provided by the CLARS (Charging, Low Emission Zones, other Access Regulation Schemes). It is provided by Sadler Consultants Europe GmbH. It builds on the successful Low Emission Zone in Europe Network (LEEZEN) which has provided this website previously (under the address www.lowemissionzones.eu), also run by Sadler Consultants Europe GmbH.

The CLARS website provides information urban access regulation schemes; including urban road user tolling, Low Emission Zones and other access restriction schemes. These are the regulations that many towns and cities use to improve their air quality, noise, traffic and quality of life issues. We are the truly 1 stop shop on urban access regulations called for by the industry. We also support cities and other public authorities with their access regulation schemes, see our CLARS Platform page.

We are funded through Additional Services, Licence Fees and Sponsorship.

If you would like more information on urban access regulations, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. about our additional services.

If you find our website useful, even if you don’t need any of the services above, please consider sponsoring us. Without funding, we cannot continue giving you the information you need.

Additional services can include:

Our data, including in different formats or summarised, or certain types of schemes
Details of the increasing numbers Zero Emission Zones
Electric Vehicle and other propulsion advantages / disadvantages in Urban Access Regulations and Urban areas.
Our website provides information on confirmed schemes. We also have information on future not yet n-confirmed schemes
Access to our data for other purposes
Additional features on the website, perhaps upon login.
or anything else on access regulations, as we are likely to have that too!

Please may I take the opportunity to remind you that the data on our website is covered by database copyright, and all rights are reserved. No part of the website may be reproduced, transmitted, or utilised in any form or by any means for purposes other than personal use without written permission from ourselves. For more information, see our Terms and Conditions.

If you are interested in any of the above please contact us.

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If you want to contact someone about any of the access regulation schemes, then please contact the individual city. The city and further information websites are given on the individual city page.

This website was funded from 23rd December 2013 to 22nd December 2017 within a contract with the European Union. From 23rd December 2017 the website is run on a Commercial funding basis by Sadler Consultants Europe GmbH.

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