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Does Urban Rail Transit Discourage People from Owning and Using Cars? Evidence from Beijing, China
Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2018 With the rapid urbanization and motorization, many cities are developing urban rail transit (URT) to reduce car dependence. This paper explores the URT effect on car ownership and use based on the home-based work tour data in Beijing, China.
Shasha Liu +2 more
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Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2021 This article investigates the role of hegemonic ideology and the symbolic meaning of Autonomous Vehicle (AV) ownership in the society of automobility.
Mohsen Mohammadzadeh
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European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research, 2000 Research on ‘happiness’ suggests that once an average per capita income of around US$ 10,000 is achieved in a country, further increases in income will not lead to a significant increase in happiness. Additional income will probably often be spent on the
Erik T. Verhoef, Bert van Wee
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Drivers’ Perspectives of Car Dependence
Urban Planning, 2023 The concept of car dependence includes both travel to destinations for which other modes than the car are not practical and preference for car travel even when other modes are available.
David Metz
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Spatial Analysis of Dog Ownership and Car Use in the UK
Findings, 2021 Walking the dog, and other dog-related practices, have been suggested to be particularly car-dependent. Secondary data analysis presented finds associations between the high energy use practices of car travel and dog ownership.
Ian Philips +2 more
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European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research, 2016 In this paper data from 230 households observed in ten different occasions (waves) from 1989 to 2002 in the Puget Sound region are used to explore relationships among number of cars owned, number of trips driving alone, and number of trips sharing cars ...
Elizabeth McBride +4 more
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Exploring Car-Ownership and Declining Carlessness in the United States during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Findings, 2023 This paper examines changes in car-ownership levels before and after the COVID-19 pandemic in the US. In contrast to the two years before the pandemic, the propensity of households to be carless decreased for all households considered, as well as for low-
Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah
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Car Ownership of Households in Sub-Urban Area in Makassar City
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2018 The present study aims to grasp the car ownership characteristics of households in the sub-urban area in Makassar City, Indonesia. The study considers some exogenous characteristics of the households, such house types, family size, income, motorcycle ...
Pasra Mubassirang +2 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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Car access and travel behaviour among men and women in car deficient households with children
Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2021 Household car ownership does not necessarily reflect the access to use car, especially if there are more licenced household members than cars in the household.
Hanne Tiikkaja, Heikki Liimatainen
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