How are pages kept updated?

How are pages kept updated?

Behind Car or No Car sits a long-running fascination with how cities actually work. That curiosity goes back nearly 50 years and has been shaped by observing how people move through places, how transport networks evolve, and how urban form affects everyday life. Layered on top of that is more than 25 years of professional experience in the travel industry, publishing destination and route-based information for a global audience.

The specific idea for Car or No Car grew out of running a flight-route information website. Once you answer the question who flies where, the natural follow-up is obvious: what’s the best way of getting around when you arrive? That shift—from air routes to ground-level movement—sparked a broader way of thinking about destinations as connected systems rather than isolated points on a map.

That experience of publishing travel information has been reinforced by real-world travel to many of the world’s major cities. Today, it is further augmented by regular online research, including extensive use of mapping tools—especially OpenRailwayMap—to keep rail, tram, metro, and regional transport information accurate and current.

More recently, the site has expanded significantly. Car or No Car now includes car-rental information for every country in the world, alongside detailed coverage of around 1,000 cities. Publishing and maintaining this level of detail requires a structured approach: initial research is carried out using AI tools, and then manually cross-checked to ensure accuracy and relevance.

Automatic updates vs manual updates

Some information changes frequently and needs to stay consistent across the whole site. All numerical data, lists, and short factual sentences are therefore updated automatically from a central data table. When a figure or fact changes, every relevant page updates at once—avoiding duplication and keeping everything aligned.

Longer descriptive paragraphs work differently. These sections rely more on judgement, context, and real-world nuance, so they are reviewed and updated manually on a less frequent basis. This allows space for interpretation and clarity, rather than constant small edits that add noise rather than value.

The entire site was fully relaunched in October 2025, bringing this combined automatic–manual update system together into a single, more robust platform.

Recent updates (as of February 2026)

Here are a few examples of how Car or No Car pages are kept fresh with real-world changes and policy updates:

• Austria: Graz–Klagenfurt high-speed rail
  A major milestone has been reached with the opening of the new high-speed line between Graz and Klagenfurt last December. The journey time has been cut to just 39 minutes, thanks to a new base tunnel running beneath the Alps. This significantly changes the car-vs-train calculation for southern Austria and has been reflected across relevant city and country pages.

• Italy: Venice tourist tax updates
  Information on the Venice visitor access fee has been updated to reflect the latest rules, including when the charge applies, how much it costs, and which visitors are exempt. As this directly affects short visits and day-trippers, it has implications for decisions about staying overnight, arriving by car, or using regional rail instead.

• Barbados: driving licence changes
  Barbados has scrapped its long-standing visitor driving licence system. Instead of purchasing a temporary licence, visitors now pay a daily car-hire tax, simplifying the process but changing the overall cost calculation for renting a car. Car-rental guidance for Barbados has been updated accordingly.

• UAE: improved road safety measures
  Several pages covering the United Arab Emirates now reflect updated road-safety measures, including stricter enforcement, improved infrastructure, and technology-led monitoring. These changes affect driving conditions, insurance assumptions, and the relative appeal of car hire versus public transport in major cities.

These updates are typical of the mix handled on the site: infrastructure projects, policy changes, and safety improvements—all of which can materially change whether using a car is the best option, or not.

How do I make comments or suggest corrections?

Comments are welcome on any page, and updates or corrections are always appreciated. If your comment relates to a specific city or country, the best place to leave it is directly on that page. If it’s a more general comment about Car or No Car as a whole, please add it below.

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