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Car — Increasing Ownership and Decreasing Use?

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A Billion Trips a Day

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Car ownership1 is increasing in almost every country. Since World War II it has been considered that motorization will have a certain saturation level. Determining this level has proven to be one of the most difficult research problems (Figure 6.1). For instance, in the U.S., where motorization started much earlier than in Europe, the ‘natural’ saturation levels have been passed repeatedly.

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  1. In this chapter we mean by car a passenger car, defmed as a motor vehicle suited for the transport of a maximum of 8 passengers (driver not included), station cars included. No major definitional differences exist between the European countries concerning the total number of cars and thus car ownership at a national level.

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  2. Costs which are not reflected in the price paid by the owner/user for car ownership and car use, but which are paid in a direct or indirect way by society.

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  3. For these calculations we have used earlier work of Jansson and Cardebring (1989). The following assumptions are used: i) the car is a Volkswagen Golf using (leaded) petrol fuel; ii) the annual kilométrage is 15, 000, and iii) the average car life time in all countries is 11 years.

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  4. Higher welfare levels lead, in general, to increasing labour costs. This means that prices of other factors relative to labour, decrease. So fixed car costs are correlated with income.

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  1. Wim Korver
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  2. Jeroen Klooster
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  3. Gijsbertus R. M. Jansen
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  1. Department of Geography, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

    Ilan Salomon

  2. Transportation and Traffic Research Department, Ministry of Transport and Public Works, The Netherlands

    Piet Bovy

  3. INRETS, France

    Jean-Pierre Orfeuil

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Korver, W., Klooster, J., Jansen, G.R.M. (1993). Car — Increasing Ownership and Decreasing Use?. In: Salomon, I., Bovy, P., Orfeuil, JP. (eds) A Billion Trips a Day. Transportation Research, Economics and Policy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8118-9_6

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