Abstract
The impact of change in car ownership on household mobility is examined in this study using observations from the first three waves of the Dutch National Mobility Panel survey. The major findings of the statistical analysis can be summarized as:- Car ownership is strongly associated with mode usage.- An increase in car ownership leads to an increase in car use, which in turn leads to a decrease in transit use.- If the trend of increasing household car ownership continues, it will result in further increase in car use. This increase in car use may not be suppressed by improving public transit.- Car use may be more effectively controlled in the long- rum by adopting policies to control car ownership rather than car use itself.