The existing and the emerging: car ownership and car sharing on the road towards sustainable mobility

Life course events can change household travel demand dramatically. Recent studies of car ownership have examined the impacts of life course events on the purchasing, replacing, and disposing of cars. However, with the increasing diversification of mobility tools, changing the fleet size is not the only option to adapt to the change caused by life course events. People have various options with the development of sustainable mobility tools including electric car, electric bike, and car sharing. In order to determine the impacts of life course events on car ownership and the decision of mobility tool type, a stated choice experiment was conducted. The experiment also investigated how the attributes of mobility tools related to the acceptance of them. Based on existing literature, we identified the attributes of mobility tools and several life course events which are considered to be influential in car ownership decision and new types of mobility tools choice. The error component random parameter logit model was estimated. The heterogeneity across people on current car and specific mobility tools are considered. The results indicate people incline not to sell their current car when they choose an electric bike or shared car. Regarding the life course events, baby birth increases the probability to purchase an additional car, while it decreases the probability to purchase an electric bike or joining a car sharing scheme. Moreover, the estimation of error components implies that there is unobserved heterogeneity across respondents on the sustainable mobility tools choice and the decision on household’s current car.

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Not Enough Money: The Resources and Choices of the Motoring Poor

Competition & Change ◽

10.1080/10245290212676 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 95-111 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Julie Froud ◽

Sukhdev Johal ◽

Adam Leaver ◽

Karel Williams

Keyword(s):

Public Transport ◽

Car Ownership ◽

Social Aspect ◽

Policy Makers ◽

The Road ◽

Poor Households ◽

Labour Market Participation ◽

The Social ◽

On The Road ◽

The Uk

This paper helps to develop the social aspect of a new agenda for automobile research through focusing on motoring expenditure in the UK by poor households. It moves the social exclusion debate on by going back to Rowntree's 1901 survey, which established that poverty entailed not having enough resources to meet the needs of the household. Rowntree's analysis of primary and secondary poverty is updated here through the focus on the resources and choices of poor households, which incur significant motoring costs as the price of participation. Statistical sources and interviews in Inner and Outer London are used to explore these issues and the analysis shows that the story is one of constraint, sacrifice and precariousness. Car ownership imposes large costs on poor households, which limit other consumption opportunities. Labour market participation may depend on such sacrifices where public transport and local employment opportunities are limited. This locks poor households into a precarious cycle whereby the car is necessary to get to work and the job is necessary to keep the car on the road. Using Rowntree by analogy, the paper argues that, as well as improving public transport provision policy makers must also recognise the problem of poverty.

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Comparative Analysis of the Tax Burden on Car Ownership and Car Use in the EU Countries and Russia

Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences ◽

10.5901/mjss.2017.v8n2p9 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 9-14

Author(s):

Igor Mayburov ◽

Yulia Leontyeva

Keyword(s):

Negative Impact ◽

Theoretical Background ◽

Car Ownership ◽

Tax Burden ◽

Passenger Cars ◽

Conservation Areas ◽

Fuel Tax ◽

The Road ◽

European Experience ◽

On The Road

Abstract The purpose of this article is to compare the tax burden on car owners and car users in the countries of Europe and in Russia and to use the findings for identifying areas of improvement in the system of fiscal instruments under the present conditions of transport development. The article examines the European experience in the construction of fixed and variable transport taxes to regulate the behavior of the car owners. The theoretical background collection of taxes for the use of a car is considered. The article looks the size of fixed taxes in different countries depends on the technical characteristics of the car that determine its capability to have a negative impact on the road network and environmental factors. A conclusion is made that in Russia, the system of transport taxes lacks logic. The level of fixed taxes that is rather higher for Russia generates two effects: it hinders the growth of car ownership and preserves the negative structure of the car fleet. The low level of variable taxes (fuel tax and tolls) encourages the intense use of passenger cars. The approach will spur further growth of car ownership rates in Russia, making people car dependent. A reform of variable transport taxes is needed to regularly increase them. Such an increase should also be accomplished by regularly increasing fuel excise duties and introducing congestion charges and toll charges on more roads, bridges, tunnels, and conservation areas.

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Car sharing and socio-spatial justice: evidences from three Italian cities

Town Planning Review ◽

10.3828/tpr.2021.5 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 92 (4) ◽

pp. 479-505

Author(s):

Elena Pede ◽

Luca Staricco

Keyword(s):

Low Income ◽

Effective Potential ◽

Social Benefits ◽

Car Ownership ◽

Sustainable Mobility ◽

Car Sharing ◽

Spatial Justice ◽

Spatial Strategies ◽

Disadvantaged People

Car sharing is often celebrated as a new opportunity for a more sustainable mobility. One of its potential social benefits is the possibility for low-income, carless households to gain or maintain vehicle access without bearing the full costs of car ownership. However, poor attention has so far been paid to the effective potential of car sharing to improve the mobility options for disadvantaged people. In this paper a socio-spatial-justice approach is adopted to verify this potential in three Italian cities (Rome, Milan and Turin), where private transport plays a key role in mobility choices of citizens. The results reveal that car sharing increases accessibility levels for everybody in absolute terms, but in relative terms the spatial availability of this service is greater for car-owning households than for carless ones. A few speculations are proposed to explain these results, with reference to spatial strategies adopted by car-sharing operators.

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The Public Space as an Articulating and Structuring Element for the Sustainable Urban Mobility. Case Study: Parking management in Villavicencio, Colombia

Modern Applied Science ◽

10.5539/mas.v12n9p28 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 12 (9) ◽

pp. 28

Author(s):

Carlos Alberto Moncada ◽

Diego Alexander Escobar ◽

Ximena Carolina Velandia

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Sustainable Mobility ◽

The Road ◽

Structuring Element ◽

Parking Management ◽

On The Road ◽

Main Input ◽

Sustainable Urban Mobility ◽

The Right

With the purpose of contributing to knowledge in parking management, this research based on sustainable mobility and the right to enjoy public space, aims to generate guidelines that promote an urban lifestyle centered on integration between different modes of transport, motorized and non-motorized. In this sense, a case study is included on parking management in the city of Villavicencio (department of Meta), in which an inventory and characterization of on-street and off-street car parks is presented as the main input. Based on this information, a methodology is proposed, aimed at guaranteeing off-street parking with capacities greater than 50 spaces, eliminating those with low capacity and relocating their demand in parking lots with higher capacities and low occupancy percentages. This will allow financial sustainability so that off-street parking can offer adequate security, infrastructure and fare conditions that make them more attractive compared to on-street parking areas. Additionally, it is proposed the elimination of parking on the road with access or exit to the arterial road and the elimination of areas for this type of parking that intersect with public transport routes or infrastructure for bicyclists.

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