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Title: TO LDT OR NOT TO LDT
Accession Number: 00804654
Record Type: Component
Record URL: Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Find a library where document is available Abstract: Light-duty truck (LDT) classification allows manufacturers and owners to avoid a host of passenger-car regulations, including gas-guzzler taxes, safety standards, and more stringent emissions and fuel-economy standards. The distinct policies that govern LDTs and passenger cars are described; the emissions, safety, and fuel economy differences that have resulted are evaluated; and the household use differences across such vehicles are investigated. The result is that when the average new pickup truck or sport-utility vehicle is compared with a passenger car, there appears to be an implicit subsidy of roughly $4,400 favoring the LDT. When minivans are compared with passenger cars, this subsidy is estimated to be around $2,800. With more equitable vehicle regulations, it is likely that prices would more accurately reflect the true cost differences resulting from the use of these vehicles, causing LDTs to lose some of their popularity or clean up their act.
Supplemental Notes: This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1738, Energy, Air Quality, and Fuels 2000.
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Kockelman, K MPagination: p. 3-10
Publication Date: 2000
Serial: ISBN: 0309067413
Features: Figures
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; References
(50)
; Tables
(4)
TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Subject Areas: Energy; Highways; Law; Policy; Vehicles and Equipment
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Jan 11 2001 12:00AM
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