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Addiction to car use and dynamic elasticity measures in France

Year: 2010

Type: preprint

Abstract: 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 "Car Fleet" survey over the period 1999-2001. Importantly, the estimates show that the assumption of addiction to car use cannot be rejected. Furthermore, the model yields realistic kilometric-price and income elasticities of household automobility, for both the short and the long runs.

Authors: Roger Collet, Matthieu de Lapparent, Laurent Hivert

Language: English

Topic: Transportation Planning and Optimization

Subfield: Transportation

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2241107854

Cites: 30

Cited by: 3

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