The Built Environment and Motor Vehicle Ownership and Use: Evidence from Santiago de Chile
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Zegras Built Environment and Motor Vehicle Ownership.pdf
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Author(s)
Zegras, P. Christopher
Date Issued
July 2010
Journal
Urban Studies
Publisher
Sage Publication
Citation
Zegras, Christopher. “The Built Environment and Motor Vehicle Ownership and Use: Evidence from Santiago De Chile.” Urban Studies 47.8 (2010) : 1793 -1817.
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Author's final manuscript
Abstract
This paper examines the relationships between the built environment—both ‘neighborhood’ design characteristics and relative location—and motor vehicle ownership and use in a rapidly motorising, developing city context, that of Santiago de Chile. A vehicle choice model suggests that income dominates the household vehicle ownership decision, but also detects a relationship between several built environment characteristics and a household’s likelihood of car ownership. A second model, directly linked to the ownership model to correct for selection bias and endogeneity, suggests a strong relationship with locational characteristics like distance to the central business district and Metro stations. Elasticities of vehicle kilometres travelled (VKT), calculated via the combined models, suggest that income plays the overall largest single role in determining VKT. In combination, however, a range of different design and relative location characteristics also display a relatively strong association with VKT.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning
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DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098009356125
