ReVeAL considers the implementation of UVAR measures a necessary part of a wider transition management challenge.

In view of this, “Cross-cutting Themes” are aspects that are common to all Urban Vehicle Access Regulations and that need to be comprehensively and co-ordinately considered when implementing them.

ReVeAL has grouped these into four topics: 

The mobility services that exist and are already planned in a city affect what UVARs can be developed, as well as whether they will be successful or not. Cities’ ongoing and future mobility plans and UVARs need to be considered as harmonised parts of one organism.

An UVAR may not be universally welcome, but it will only be successful when generally accepted and meeting the mobility needs of its city of application. Knowing its problems and users and involving stakeholders are all other additional aspects that can increase the scheme’s success. 

The administrative frameworks and mechanisms of a city (which include its decision-making context, legal and policy frameworks, and more), as well as its financial arrangements for funding UVAR measures and using the resulting revenue streams, influence the development of an UVAR.

An UVAR that is not complied with is not an UVAR, but a piece of paper describing an UVAR. It is essential that the UVAR is complied with, and this has many aspects, letting people know about the scheme, designing it in a way so that vehicles have no option as to comply, or sending fines to enforce against those who do not comply to ensure that people comply in future.