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Title:

Estimation of Gasoline Price Elasticity on Car Mileage in Japan

Accession Number:

01764258

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Fuel tax revenue has been decreasing due to technological improvements of vehicles. Road user charge (RUC) including vehicle miles traveled (VMT) fee has been discussed for bearing the increasing road maintenance cost and reducing negative externalities. In this paper, the authors estimated a gasoline price elasticity on car mileage in Japan using more than 30,000 self-reported panel samples. The authors applied for the latent class regression analysis considering the reliability of each sample. As a result, about 30% of households with a long mileage who lives in areas where public transportation is inconvenient, had a significant gasoline price elasticity (-0.2). In Japan, the estimated gasoline price elasticity was –0.09.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AEP60 Standing Committee on Transportation Demand Management.

Report/Paper Numbers:

TRBAM-21-00253

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

Authors:

Kamada, Yudai
Tanishita, Masayoshi

Pagination:

8p

Publication Date:

2021

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 100th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2021-1-5 to 2021-1-29
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board; Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Japan

Subject Areas:

Energy; Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Policy

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2021 Paper #TRBAM-21-00253

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 23 2020 11:23AM