@article{ref1,
title="Household motor vehicle ownership and use: how much does residential density matter?",
journal="Transportation research record",
year="1996",
author="Schimek, Paul",
volume="1552",
number="",
pages="120-125",
abstract="The question of whether population density affects the amount of household automobile travel in the United States is revisited. Controls for income and demographics are included in a multivariate regression model of vehicle travel that includes vehicle ownership as an intermediate factor and that treats a household's pick of neighborhood density and the amount of travel as a simultaneous relationship. The data come from the 1990 Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey. It is found that density matters, but not much. A 10 percent increase in density leads to only a 0.7 percent reduction in household automobile travel. By comparison, a 10 percent increase in household income leads to a 3 percent increase in automobile travel. The results are similar when vehicle trips are used as the dependent variable. The effect of density is so small that even a relatively large-scale shift to urban densities would have a negligible impact on total vehicle travel.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0361-1981",
doi="10.3141/1552-17",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1552-17"
}