Revisiting car dependency: A worldwide analysis of car travel in global metropolitan areas
This article aims to contribute to the understanding of car dependency of cities, a line of inquiry which emerged in the late 1980s. First, the authors update possibly outdated insights based on more recent data. Second, they highlight methodological limitations of this type of research, which will help determine the relevance of typical findings in the broader debate on urban sustainability. For this analysis, the authors base themselves on the Mobility in Cities Database which includes properties of urban form and mobility of 56 metropolitan areas worldwide. Using OLS modelling, the authors found that density, public transport supply and demand, car ownership, fuel price and level of congestion are important predictors of car use. However, although these variables are significantly associated with car travel in metropolitan areas, they do explain variance to a limited extent only, partly since such variables do not cover underlying personal attributes such as age, income, attitudes, or residential self-selection. This puts the findings and the implications of earlier comparative analysis of car dependency of metropolitan areas into perspective and questions the tendency of urban planning policies to view urban density as a silver bullet solution.
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- © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
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Authors:
- Saeidizand, Pedram
- Fransen, Koos
- Boussauw, Kobe
- Publication Date: 2022-1
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Features: Appendices; Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
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Serial:
- Cities
- Volume: 120
- Issue Number: 0
- Publisher: Elsevier
- ISSN: 0264-2751
- Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02642751
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Automobile ownership; Automobile travel; City planning; International; Metropolitan areas; Population density
- Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01787967
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Nov 12 2021 5:23PM