Automobile Fuel Demand: A Critical Assessment of Empirical Methodologies

Many surveys have attempted to convey and synthesize the information of hundreds of studies on automobile fuel demand. In most cases, the focus has been placed in giving assessments of the most likely values of various elasticities, particularly price and income, while trying to explain the differences between results. However, given the summary characteristic of these surveys, the most popular approaches and methodologies—such as dynamic reduced-form demand models with time-series data—have dominated the core values obtained. The present survey focuses instead on the various approaches and methods that have been used. It reviews and classifies them, showing that there are relevant findings, raised by studies using less popular approaches, which seem to challenge some of the accepted core results in the literature. These other approaches include: co-integration techniques, use of disaggregate data at the household level and flexible functional forms, and structural models of automobile fuel consumption.

• Record URL:
  http://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/01441640601119710
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/7802200
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Taylor and Francis
• Authors:
  • Basso, Leonardo J
  • Oum, Tae Hoon
• Publication Date: 2007-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 449-484
• Serial:
  • Transport Reviews
  • Volume: 27
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISSN: 0144-1647
  • EISSN: 1464-5327
  • Serial URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ttrv20

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobiles; Demand; Empirical methods; Evaluation and assessment; Fuel consumption; Literature reviews; Methodology
• Subject Areas: Energy; Environment; Highways; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01055193
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Aug 17 2007 1:18PM