CHOICE OF SMALLEST CAR BY MULTI-VEHICLE HOUSEHOLDS AND THE DEMAND FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES

A model explaining choice of smallest car by multi-vehicle households is estimated on data collected in the Baltimore area in the spring of 1977. The model is multinomial logit, with choice categories defined by distinguishing five size classes (including one "luxury" class) and four age categories. Household tradeoffs among value, operating cost, and size of cars are analyzed. Estimated household discount rates increase as household income declines. That is, the poorer the household, the more likely it is to focus on purchase-cost instead of operating-cost when making car choice decisions. Results are reasonably consistent with those from a similar model estimated earlier on panel data, which is more comprehensive than the Baltimore data for predicting the demand for electric vehicles. Results obtained by other investigators are compared. (Author/TRRL)

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Research sponsored by Electric Power Research Institute.
• Corporate Authors:

  Pergamon Press, Incorporated

  Headington Hill Hall
  Oxford OX30BW,    
• Authors:
  • Beggs, S D
  • Cardell, N S
• Publication Date: 1980-10-12

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 389-404
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
  • Volume: 14A
  • Issue Number: 5/6
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0965-8564
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09658564

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Age; Alternatives analysis; Automobiles; Choice models; Compact automobiles; Consumers; Costs; Demand; Electric vehicles; Forecasting; Households; Logits; Needs assessment; Operating costs; Size
• Uncontrolled Terms: Selection; User needs
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Old TRIS Terms: Small car
• ITRD Terms: 1757: Age; 1243: Car; 224: Cost; 285: Demand (econ); 9014: Dimension; 1282: Electric vehicle; 309: Household; 221: Operating costs; 9072: Selection; 8122: USA
• Subject Areas: Energy; Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I71: Traffic Theory;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00330871
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-030 959
• Files: HSL, ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 15 1983 12:00AM