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How long to own and how much to use a car? : a dynamic discrete choice model to explain holding duration and driven mileage

Lapparent, Matthieu de; Cernicchiaro, Guilia - In: Economic modelling 29 (2012) 5, pp. 1737-1744

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Household car ownership in urban and rural areas in Sweden 1999–2008

Pyddoke, Roger; Creutzer, Christopher - CTS - Centre for Transport Studies Stockholm (KTH and VTI) - 2014

are only slightly more likely to cease car ownership than middle-aged households. Households with higher income are less … likely to cease car ownership then lower income households and more likely to increase their car ownership. Permanent income …, defined as the average income over the period, has a larger positive impact on car ownership than current income. …

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Estimating the latent demand for rail transit : a case study in Perth, Western Australia

Liu, Yulin; Ferreira, Luis - 2010

This paper presents a study on estimating the latent demand for rail transit in Australian context. Based on travel mode-choice modelling, a two-stage analysis approach is proposed, namely market population identification and mode share estimation. A case study is conducted on Midland-Fremantle...

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How Full Is the tank? – Insights on Short-run Fuel Price Reactions from German Travel Diary Data

Ritter, Nolan; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Vance, Colin - 2013

We provide evidence that motorists respond to short-run fluctuations in fuel prices at the gas pump and not on the road. Employing variants of censored panel regression to control for unobserved heterogeneity and censoring of the dependent variable, we find that the fuel price has a large and...

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Effectiveness of Climate Policies: Empirical Methods and Evidence

Dieler, Julian - 2016

This volume was prepared by Julian Dieler while he was working with the Center for Energy, Climate and exhaustible Resources at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. At the latest since the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 climate policies are permanently on the international policy...

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Heterogeneity in price elasticity of vehicle kilometers traveled: Evidence from micro-level panel data

Tilov, Ivan; Weber, Sylvain - 2020

This article presents an empirical estimation of the effect of fuel prices on vehicle kilometers traveled (VKT) using a panel dataset of 1,138 Swiss households. Elasticities are estimated for different segments of households, based on their socio-demographic and vehicle characteristics, as well...

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FUEL PRICES AND CAR SALES

Cârstea, Vlad - In: Romanian Economic Business Review 3 (2008) 1, pp. 74-78

Automotive industry is a very important economic sector that is highly responsive to changes in the world economy. The fuel price is the biggest enemy of car manufacturers. This is a compared analysis between Europe and Romania regarding new car registrations.

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Fuel Price Hike and Indonesiaâ€™s Energy Insecurity

Sembiring, Margareth; Kenawas, Yoes C. - eSocialSciences - 2013

Fuel price hikes have always been unpopular in Indonesia, largely because of their wide-ranging impact on the population. Yet, it is undeniable that the current high subsidies are unsustainable. To move forward on this issue then, the government would need to focus on comprehensive measures that...

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Does fuel price affect trucking industry’s network characteristics?: evidence from Denmark

Abate, Megersa - CTS - Centre for Transport Studies Stockholm (KTH and VTI) - 2014

The 2000s were dominated by rising fuel prices and economic recession. Both had an impact on the structure of the trucking industry and how freight was moved. This paper examines how fuel prices shaped trucking industry’s network characteristics such as the average length of haul, average...

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Bunkering decisions for a shipping liner in an uncertain environment with service contract

Ghosh, Sugoutam; Lee, Loo Hay; Ng, Szu Hui - In: European Journal of Operational Research 244 (2015) 3, pp. 792-802

As bunker fuel cost constitutes a major portion of the shipping liners’ operating cost, it is imperative for them to minimize the bunkering cost to remain competitive. Service contract with a fuel supplier is a strategy they venture on to reduce this cost. Typically, liner operators enter into...

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