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A comprehensive examination of factors influencing auto ownership decisions
(2005-05-21) Dolata, Mateusz; Bhat, Chandra R. (Chandrasekhar R.), 1964-
Household auto ownership levels influence travel behavior in a variety of ways, including the number of trips made, the distance traveled to activity locations, and the travel mode chosen. In recent years, significant effort has been placed on designing urban policy strategies with the intended goal of decreasing dependency on automobile travel. Included within these policies has been movement towards principles of new urbanism – urban areas with higher density of development, diversity of land-uses, and design for pedestrian and bicycle modes. This paper attempts to shed light on how a variety of factors, including urban form, impact auto ownership. By knowing which factors truly impact auto ownership decisions, effective policy decisions can be made to impact travel behavior in metropolitan areas. This work examines the impact of explanatory variables through a Multinomial Logit (MNL) model. A MNL model based on San Francisco Bay Area data is developed and the impact of significant explanatory variables on auto ownership is examined. Variables include measures of the urban form and household demographics. This work provides an empirical model that synthesizes the advances made in use of detailed urban form measures together with demographic data describing household characteristics