Shared autonomous vehicles and their potential impacts on household vehicle ownership: An exploratory empirical assessment

International Journal of Sustainable Transportation

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 111-122

  Menon, Nikhil ^a   Barbour, Natalia ^b   Zhang, Yu ^b,c   Pinjari, Abdul Rawoof ^d   Mannering, Fred ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b University of South Florida   (United States)

^c TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Automated vehicles; car ownership; econometric modeling; mobility on demand; shared mobility

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; VEHICLES;

AUTOMATED VEHICLES; AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATIONS; AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE TECHNOLOGIES; CAR OWNERSHIP; ECONOMETRIC MODEL; ON DEMANDS; TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGY; UNOBSERVED HETEROGENEITY;

ACCIDENTS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CAR OWNERSHIP; ECONOMETRICS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MOBILITY; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS; TRAVEL DEMAND;

EID: 85044057386     PISSN: 15568318     EISSN: 15568334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2018.1443178     Document Type: Article

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