Do fewer people mean fewer cars? Population decline and car ownership in Germany

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 50, Issue , 2013, Pages 74-85

  Ritter, Nolan ^a   Vance, Colin ^a,b  

^a RWI LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Car ownership; Demographic change; Germany; Multinomial logit; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; LAND USE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION;

CAR OWNERSHIP; DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES; GERMANY; MULTINOMIAL LOGIT; SIMULATION;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

AUTOMOBILE; CAR OWNERSHIP; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMETRICS; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; LAND USE; LOGIT ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLICY MAKING; POPULATION DECLINE;

GERMANY;

EID: 84874444203     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2013.01.035     Document Type: Article

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