Passenger Car Ownership Estimation toward 2030 in Japan: BAU Scenario with Socio-economic Factors

Studies in Regional Science

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-39

  Hirota, Keiko ^a  

^a JAPAN AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Demographic Trends; Japan; Model Construction and Estimation; Passenger Car Ownership; Time Series Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856910941     PISSN: 02876256     EISSN: 18806465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2457/srs.37.25     Document Type: Article

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