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Transportation 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
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Research 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
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Factors influencing crash involvement during early years of owning a new vehicle
IATSS 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
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Prace Komisji Geografii Przemysłu Polskiego Towarzystwa Geograficznego, 2014 The globalization of the automotive industry in the last twenty years has manifested itself ina rapid increase in the assembly of automobiles and the production of automotive components and spareparts outside of the traditional centers of automotive ...
Mirosław Wójtowicz, Tomasz Rachwał
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A hybrid optimization approach to forecast automobile sales of China
Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 2017 In this article, a novel Hybrid method based on particle swarm optimization and ant colony optimization (HPA) is proposed to forecast automobile sales of China. Proposed hybrid model integrating particle swarm optimization and ant colony optimization for
Junjie Gao +5 more
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Life events, poverty, and car ownership in the United States: A mobility biography approach
Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2019 What causes families to buy or give up a car in the U.S.? Following the mobility biography approach, we use a nationally representative panel data set, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), to examine the role of life events and changes in the built
Nicholas J. Klein, Michael J. Smart
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What Makes the Gears Go ‘Round? Factors Influencing Bicycling to Suburban Regional Rail Stations
Findings, 2020 In North America, most suburban commuters who use rail transit drive and park at stations, offsetting some benefits of commuter rail. Using passenger survey data collected at three rail stations near Toronto, Canada, we explored the correlates of ...
Matthew Graystone, Raktim Mitra
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The Factors Affecting Automobile Demand in Türkiye
Hitit Sosyal Bilimler DergisiPer capita demand for cars is significantly higher in societies with higher purchasing power. Globally, demand for automobiles has been growing steadily, especially in developing countries.
Mehmet Akif Peçe, Serkan Dilek
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Socioeconomic status indicators, physical activity, and overweight/obesity in Brazilian children
Revista Paulista de Pediatria, 2016 Objective: To analyze the associations between socioeconomic status (SES) indicators and physical activity and overweight/obesity in children. Methods: 485 children wore accelerometers for 7 days.
Victor Keihan Rodrigues Matsudo +7 more
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Vehicle ownership rates: The role of lifecycle, period, and cohort effects
Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2023 Researchers and policymakers often attempt to forecast trends in automobile ownership. But to understand recent changes in demand for cars, researchers must account for behaviors specific to different generations, while simultaneously controlling for the
Julene Paul, Evelyn Blumenberg
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