CAR USE: A SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STUDY

In-depth interviews were used to examine household activities, trip generation and car use for work journeys, use and non-use of cars for journeys to school, patterns of shopping among car owning households, travel for social and leisure activities and the role of the car. The perceptions of motoring costs and responses to cost changes are analysed together with the company financing of household cars and its effects on their usage. Ownership of a second car and decisions regarding the usage of the latter are investigated. The main findings of the research are summarised, and appendices give details of the in-depth interviewing approach and methodology, and of the main and pilot surveys conducted. (TRRL)

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  Gower Publishing

  Brookfield, VT  United States 
• Authors:
  • Dix, M C
  • Carpenter, S M
  • CLARKE, M I
  • Pollard, HRT
  • SPENCER, M B
• Publication Date: 1983

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 267 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobile ownership; Automobiles; Financing; Households; Leisure time; Motor vehicles; Operating costs; Organizations; Ownership; Questionnaires; Schools; Shopping; Shopping centers; Travel; Travel patterns; Trip generation; Work trips
• Uncontrolled Terms: Two; Use
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• ITRD Terms: 1243: Car; 244: Financing; 663: Generated traffic; 309: Household; 9147: Interview; 698: Journey; 621: Journey to work; 221: Operating costs; 9057: Organization (association); 9142: Recreation; 101: School; 320: Shopping centre; 9082: Two; 8119: United Kingdom; 9084: Use; 315: Vehicle ownership
• Subject Areas: Economics; Education and Training; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00386172
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 0-566-00666-9
• Report/Paper Numbers: Monograph
• Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Jul 30 1984 12:00AM