This article presents a microeconometric analysis of household car use in France. To characterize car use dependence, the myopic and rational addiction models are estimated using panel data drawn from the French “Car Fleet” survey. Significantly, the assumption of rational addiction to car...

This article presents a microeconometric analysis of the annual mileage travelled by French households with their personal cars, defining their automobility. To feature car use dependence, the rational addiction model of Becker et al. (1994) is applied on a panel dataset, drawn from the French...

This paper presents a structural equation model of household fleet fuel efficiency and car use. It allows to weigh the contribution of car equipment changes and car use adjustments to the price elasticity of household demand for fuel. This model is implemented using a panel dataset of 322...

This article provides an evaluation of the effects of age and generation on household car-use behavior in France, and sheds some light on household perception of fuel price volatility. Using repeated cross-section data from the French "Car Fleet" survey, a pseudo-panel averaging households in...

[fre] Traditionnellement, les trafics observés sont expliqués à l'intérieur d'une zone (ici l'une des 21 régions françaises) par les caractéristiques de ses habitants : le revenu réel, le taux d'équipement en automobiles, etc. Or, les trafics, ici celui des véhicules légers,...

[fre] Les déplacements des actifs, élèves ou étudiants quittant leur lieu de travail ou d'études pour déjeuner au domicile sont soumis à de fortes contraintes d'horaire et de distance, ainsi qu'à des arbitrages multiples au sein des ménages. L'évolution de cette pratique a aussi...

This paper revisits the elasticities of car traffic using a panel dataset of the twenty-one French regions over the period 1973-99 considering spatial interdependences. Two spatial specifications including random or fixed effects are retained. These models have been estimated using the Maximum...

This paper studies the determinants of urban sprawl in France using panel dataseis for the four largest metropolitan areas (Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Lille) over the period 1985-98. A measure of urban sprawl is proposed at municipality level. Due to the huge heterogeneity of the panels, it seems...

The share of immobile persons, i.e. persons not leaving their homes on a given reporting day, is both a central result and a prime quality indicator of a travel diary survey. The wide range of values for the share of immobiles reported in travel diary and time budget survey literature has...