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Title:

Coupling-up, Breaking-up, having Kids, Graduating, and Moving: a Mobility Biography Approach to Studying Car Ownership in the U.S.

Accession Number:

01698128

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

What causes families to buy or give up a car in the US? The authors find that, coupling, breaking up, graduating college and the birth or adoption of a child have very large effects on the likelihood that families will increase or decrease their level of car ownership. Moving to or from transit-rich, dense, or walkable neighborhoods matters too, but the effects are smaller compared with life events. For transportation planners, life events represent windows of opportunity when families reevaluate their travel patterns. Finding ways to nudge families away from car ownership at these critical junctures could be an expedient way to decrease car ownership and its attendant problems, especially when combined with improving alternatives to the automobile.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADD20 Standing Committee on Social and Economic Factors of Transportation.

Report/Paper Numbers:

19-01475

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

Authors:

Klein, Nicholas J
Smart, Michael J

Pagination:

19p

Publication Date:

2019

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 98th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2019-1-13 to 2019-1-17
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

United States

Subject Areas:

Highways; Society; Vehicles and Equipment

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2019 Paper #19-01475

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 7 2018 9:46AM