Microsimulating Automobile Markets: Evolution of Vehicle Holdings and Vehicle Pricing Dynamics

Vehicle ownership decisions are central to estimates of emissions, gas tax revenues, energy security, pavement management, and other concerns. This work combines an auction-style microsimulation of vehicle prices and random-utility-maximizing choices, producing a market model for the evolution of new and used personal-vehicle fleets. All available vehicles compete directly, with demand, supply, and price signals endogenous to the model. The framework is described, analyzed, and implemented to show its capabilities in predicting outcomes of varying inputs. Application of the model system using Austin, Texas, survey data over a 20-year period highlight the model’s flexibility and reasonable response to multiple inputs, as well as potential implementation issues.

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  • Reprinted with permission of the Transportation Research Forum.
• Authors:
  • Selby, Brent
  • Kockelman, Kara M
• Publication Date: 2012

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Photos; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 83-96
• Serial:
  • Journal of the Transportation Research Forum
  • Volume: 51
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Forum
  • ISSN: 1046-1469
  • Serial URL: https://trforum.org/journal-of-the-trf/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobile ownership; Choice models; Pricing; Used vehicle industry; Vehicle design
• Uncontrolled Terms: Personal vehicles
• Geographic Terms: Austin (Texas)
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01484891
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 24 2013 7:00PM