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Car Ownership and Car Use: A Psychological Perspective

2021
Car use has a negative impact on the environment and quality of life. CO2-emissions resulting from car-use contribute to global warming, and the particulate matters released to the air reduces the quality of air, thereby posing health threats. Despite these negative consequences, many people still prefer to own and use a car.
Veldstra, Janet   +2 more
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The factors in residents' mobility in rural towns of China: Car ownership, road infrastructure and public transport services

, 2021
The improvement of rural people's mobility in developing countries has informed many policies. Still, debates remain on which policies are efficient, for instance, building more roads, providing public transport or promoting car ownership.
Zhao Yu, P. Zhao
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Motorcycle to car ownership: The role of road mobility, accessibility and income inequality

, 2021
Recent empirical studies indicated that motorcycle ownership grows as a nation’s economy develops, but decreases once incomes have passed a threshold level.
A. Poi, T. Law, H. Hamid, F. Jakarni
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Nonlinear effect of accessibility on car ownership in Beijing: Pedestrian-scale neighborhood planning

, 2020
Using a 2017 travel survey dataset and crawled heatmaps and point-of-interests (POIs) data in Beijing, China, this study adopts a gradient boosting decision trees (GBDT) algorithm to measure the relative importance and nonlinear effects of local ...
Wenjia Zhang   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

How will the introduction of automated vehicles impact private car ownership?

, 2021
Private car ownership provides the foundation for the current dominance of the car in the modal split of many cities, regions and countries. A private car is seen by many as the fastest, safest and most comfortable means of transportation.
A. Galich, Ke Stark
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Car Ownership among Young Adults

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2010
An individual-level mixed longitudinal data set with three separate cohorts representing three generations in U.S. society is used to examine how car ownership trends have changed among young adults (18 to 24 years of age) over a 40-year period, from the mid-1960s to the mid-2000s.
Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah   +2 more
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Religious culture and rural car ownership

Journal of Transport Geography, 2021
Abstract Transportation policy generally restricts the predictors of car ownership to socio-economic variables without consideration of cultural factors. However, culture – the ideas, norms, and objects that a society shares – affects consumption decisions.
Gregory L. Newmark, Emma L. Rearick
openaire   +1 more source

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