The Built Environment and Motor Vehicle Ownership and Use: Evidence from Santiago de Chile
This paper examines the relationships between the built environment—both ‘neighborhood’ design characteristics and relative location—and motor vehicle ownership and use in a rapidly motorising, developing city context, that of Santiago de Chile. A vehicle choice model suggests that income dominates...
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| author | Zegras, P. Christopher |
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| description | This paper examines the relationships between the built environment—both ‘neighborhood’ design characteristics and relative location—and motor vehicle ownership and use in a rapidly motorising, developing city context, that of Santiago de Chile. A vehicle choice model suggests that income dominates the household vehicle ownership decision, but also detects a relationship between several built environment characteristics and a household’s likelihood of car ownership. A second model, directly linked to the ownership model to correct for selection bias and endogeneity, suggests a strong relationship with locational characteristics like distance to the central business district and Metro stations. Elasticities of vehicle kilometres travelled (VKT), calculated via the combined models, suggest that income plays the overall largest single role in determining VKT. In combination, however, a range of different design and relative location characteristics also display a relatively strong association with VKT. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/647132022-09-29T19:30:23Z The Built Environment and Motor Vehicle Ownership and Use: Evidence from Santiago de Chile Zegras, P. Christopher Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning Zegras, P. Christopher Zegras, P. Christopher This paper examines the relationships between the built environment—both ‘neighborhood’ design characteristics and relative location—and motor vehicle ownership and use in a rapidly motorising, developing city context, that of Santiago de Chile. A vehicle choice model suggests that income dominates the household vehicle ownership decision, but also detects a relationship between several built environment characteristics and a household’s likelihood of car ownership. A second model, directly linked to the ownership model to correct for selection bias and endogeneity, suggests a strong relationship with locational characteristics like distance to the central business district and Metro stations. Elasticities of vehicle kilometres travelled (VKT), calculated via the combined models, suggest that income plays the overall largest single role in determining VKT. In combination, however, a range of different design and relative location characteristics also display a relatively strong association with VKT. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Presidential Fellowship) United States. Dept. of Transportation United States. Dept. of Transportation (Eisenhower Graduate Transportation Fellowship) Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (Dissertation Fellowship) 2011-06-29T20:57:11Z 2011-06-29T20:57:11Z 2010-07 2009-07 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0042-0980 1360-063X http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/64713 Zegras, Christopher. “The Built Environment and Motor Vehicle Ownership and Use: Evidence from Santiago De Chile.” Urban Studies 47.8 (2010) : 1793 -1817. en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098009356125 Urban Studies Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Sage Publication Prof. Zegras via Peter Cohn |
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| title | The Built Environment and Motor Vehicle Ownership and Use: Evidence from Santiago de Chile |
| title_full | The Built Environment and Motor Vehicle Ownership and Use: Evidence from Santiago de Chile |
| title_fullStr | The Built Environment and Motor Vehicle Ownership and Use: Evidence from Santiago de Chile |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Built Environment and Motor Vehicle Ownership and Use: Evidence from Santiago de Chile |
| title_short | The Built Environment and Motor Vehicle Ownership and Use: Evidence from Santiago de Chile |
| title_sort | built environment and motor vehicle ownership and use evidence from santiago de chile |
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