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Partial Ownership Arrangements in the Japanese Automobile Industry; 1990 - 2000 [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Applied Economics, 2004
The end of the 1990’s saw a number of foreign automobile manufacturers become the largest shareholders in several Japanese automobile manufacturers. It seems logical to conclude that a firm only enters into a partial ownership arrangement (POA) if it is profit maximizing. However, research to date has treated POAs as if exogenous to the model.
Hiroshi Ono   +3 more
core   +5 more sources

Optimising Traffic Safety – Locating Traffic Gendarmes Based on Multi-Criteria Decision Making

open access: yesPromet (Zagreb), 2023
Turkey’s expanding population and growing economy have resulted in a significant increase in automobile ownership, leading to a rise in traffic volume and, subsequently, an increase in the number of accidents.
Adnan Abdulvahitoğlu   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Research on Automatic Parking System Strategy

open access: yesWorld Electric Vehicle Journal, 2021
The development of the automobile industry and the increase in car ownership has brought great traffic pressures to the city, among which, the difficulty of parking has become a serious problem to the majority of drivers.
Chuanwei Zhang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Identifying the areas of walking, transit and automobile urban fabrics in Finnish intermediate cities

open access: yesTransportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2020
The theory of urban fabrics is based on a schema that identifies walking, transit and automobile fabrics. From the urban fabrics perspective, the basic sustainability challenge for cities is the automobile fabric and its impact on walking and transit ...
Ville Helminen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

In the driver’s seat: Pathways to automobile ownership for lower-income households in the United States

open access: yesTransportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2023
We examine how lower-income households in the United States acquire automobiles. Although car ownership plays a vital role in social and economic mobility in the US, transportation scholars know little about how low-income households obtain cars.
Nicholas J. Klein   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

End-of-life vehicle (ELV) recycling management: improving performance using an ISM approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
With booming of the automobile industry, China has become the country with increasing car ownership all over the world. However, the end-of-life vehicle (ELV) recycling industry is at infancy, and there is little systematic review on ELV recycling ...
Chen , Shan   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Factors influencing crash involvement during early years of owning a new vehicle

open access: yesIATSS Research, 2022
Though automobile manufacturers are investing efforts to make newer vehicles safer to drive, an element of uncertainty with the new vehicle seems to persist with the drivers during the early years of ownership.
Raghuveer Gouribhatla   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Corporate ownership network in the automobile industry: Owners, shareholders and passive investment funds

open access: yesResearch in Globalization, 2020
Who controls the corporate ownership network in the automotive industry: owners, shareholders or financial institutions? Recent studies have suggested that corporate control of automotive firms is increasingly associated with banks, investment funds and ...
Mario Sacomano Neto   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Car careers: A socio-psychological evaluation of aspirational automobile ownership

open access: yesTransportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2022
There is a general consensus that private car ownership is a significant barrier to transport system change, specifically in regard to injuries, space, air pollutants, or greenhouse gas emissions. Observed changes in automobile characteristics also suggest that the system is becoming less sustainable, given trends towards larger cars with greater mass ...
Humpe, Andreas   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Trends and evolution of automobile ownership in the municipalities of Chile [PDF]

open access: yesurbe. Revista Brasileira de Gestão Urbana, 2021
Abstract The automobile has played a fundamental role in the development of cities in the daily movement of people. This paper analyzes the explosive increase in the number of motorized vehicles in the municipalities of Chile. Additionally, due to its national relevance, a disaggregated analysis of the Metropolitan Area of Santiago is presented ...
Francisco Maturana   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

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