Build It and Will They Drive? Modelling Light-Duty Vehicle Travel Demand

Does road building induce more people to take to the streets and highways? Is restricting the physical capacity of the road network an effective way to manage light-duty vehicle use? Build It and Will They Drive? Modelling Light-Duty Vehicle Travel Demand looks at the arguments and the questions—and comes up with some surprising answers. It models how wealth and price influence Canada’s per capita light-duty vehicle use, considers the implications for the country’s policy-makers and discusses how socio-economic policy such as road pricing, fuel taxation and urban densification can help meet the challenge of managing light-duty vehicle use in a carbon-constrained world.

• Record URL:
  http://www.conferenceboard.ca/documents.asp?rnext=1847
• Supplemental Notes:
  • 1pdf file, 225kb.
• Corporate Authors:

  Conference Board of Canada

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  Ottawa, Ontario  Canada  K1H 8M7
• Authors:
  • Burt, M
  • Hoover, G
• Publication Date: 2006

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Pagination: 16p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Econometrics; Fuel taxes; Road construction; Road pricing; Roads; Traffic forecasting; Travel demand
• Uncontrolled Terms: Light duty vehicles; Road networks
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I71: Traffic Theory; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01055047
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)
• Files: TAC, TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 3 2007 9:02AM