REDUCED CAR OWNERSHIP AS A ROUTE TO CLEAN TRANSPORT

There is a correlation between vehicle ownership and vehicle use - if you own a vehicle you will tend to use it. Discouraging car ownership, therefore, can reduce use. To achieve this, a new policy focus with the following overarching principle is needed... Every part of every urban region should be developed and organised so that the advantages of not owning a car are at least equal to the advantages of owning a car. The conclusions to be drawn are simple, and not new. When destinations are near and public transport is good, people are less inclined to purchase cars and are thus much less inclined to use cars. What is difficult is to use these conclusions in shaping policy. (A)

• Availability:
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• Corporate Authors:

  MCB University Press Limited

  62 Toller Lane
  Bradford BD8 9BY, West Yorkshire,   England 
• Authors:
  • Gilbert, R
• Publication Date: 1998

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 21-6
• Serial:
  • World Transport Policy & Practice
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Eco-Logica Limited
  • ISSN: 1352-7614
  • Serial URL: https://www.worldtransportjournal.org/journal
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobiles; Motor vehicles; Ownership; Planning
• Uncontrolled Terms: Use
• ITRD Terms: 1243: Car; 143: Planning; 9084: Use; 315: Vehicle ownership
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00761749
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Apr 15 1999 12:00AM