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Title: CONSUMER TRADE-OFFS BETWEEN MOBILITY MAINTENANCE AND GASOLINE SAVINGS
Accession Number: 00458039
Record Type: Component
Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: Gasoline use in New York State has steadily declined since 1978. However, travel has steadily increased since 1968, set back only twice by the oil crises of 1973 and 1978. Two analyses were performed to examine this phenomenon: First, aggregate trends in travel, fuel use, price, and efficiency were used to determine the general nature of consumer trade-offs between fuel use and travel. Second, three statewide surveys of consumer response (performed in 1979, 1980, and 1982) were examined for their impact on travel. The trade-offs were clarified by relating conservation impacts to changes in energy use and method of travel. The study found that shifts to fuel-efficient automobiles have helped consumers save significant amounts of money formerly spent on gasoline. However, it was found that consumers were reinvesting some of these savings in additional travel. Consumers claimed to take actions to limit nonwork travel, but when actual trip rates, trip distances, and incidence factors were applied to the survey responses, it became apparent that the major conservation strategies were work and car related. The authors inferred from the data that after an initial reduction in travel in response to gasoline shortages in 1979, consumers appeared to have invested some of the savings made possible by more fuel-efficient automobiles in additional nonwork travel in order to regain the household travel patterns that were most satisfying to them.
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Monograph Title: Monograph Accession #: 00495912
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Brunso, Joanna MHartgen, David TPagination: pp 1-7
Publication Date: 1985
Serial: ISBN: 0309039657
Media Type: Print
Features: Figures
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TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Subject Areas: Energy; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Sep 30 1986 12:00AM
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