The Future of the Use of the Car [electronic resource]: Report of the Fifty-Fifth, Fifty-Sixth and Fifty-Seventh Round Tables on Transport Economics /
ECMT.
European Conference of Ministers of Transport Economic Research Centre.Content Provider
Round Table on Transport Economics.
Paris : OECD Publishing,
1982.
This book presents the proceedings of three related ECMT Round Tables on the future of the car. The first concern the future of car ownership, the second concerns the cost of using a car, and the third concerns changing patterns of car usage.
FOREWORD -- ROUND TABLE 55 -- Forecasts for the Ownership and Use of a Car by John Bates and Mick Roberts, United Kingdom -- -Introduction -- Historical perspective -- Factors affecting car ownership -- Factors affecting car use -- Desirable future developments -- Bibliography -- Summary of the discussions -- List of Participants -- ROUND TABLE 56 -- Cost of Using a Car: Perception and Fiscal Policy by M. C. Dix and P. B. Goodwin, United Kingdom -- -Introduction -- Part 1. A survey of issues raised by theoretical and empirical study -- Part 2. Perception of car costs -- Part 3. Case Study: Forecasting the effects of increasing taxation on petrol -- Appendices -- Company financing of households cars and effects on usage -- The second car: Ownership and usage decisions -- Possible effects of making fixed morotring costs variable: A Dutch case study -- Reference -- Summary of Discussions -- List of Participants -- ROUND TABLE 57 -- Interrelationships between Car Use and Changing Space-Time Patterns by L. van den Berg and L. H. Klaassen, the Netherlands -- -Introduction -- 1. The spatial behaviour of households -- 2. Interrelations between locational behaviour and traffic developments -- 3. Urban policy and car use -- 4. Evaluation -- Bibliography -- Summary of Discussions -- List of Participants -- CONCLUSIONS OF THE ROUND TABLES -- 
This book presents the proceedings of three related ECMT Round Tables on the future of the car. The first concern the future of car ownership, the second concerns the cost of using a car, and the third concerns changing patterns of car usage.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Transport
Automobile ownership
Transportation, Automotive
Automobile industry and trade
Twentieth century
Business & Economics
Transportation Economics