Abstract
The EMCT Programme of Round Tables for 1981-82 included in particular the following three topics. -Prospects for car ownership and car use; Cost of using a car: perception and fiscal policy; Interrelationships between car use and changing space-time patterns. The obvious topicality and interdependence of these subjects led to these Round Tables being held one after the other and the results being published in a single volume, a presentation that allows the conclusions to be better structured.