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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Song, Siqi
• Feng, Chen-Chieh
• Diao, Mi

Titel

Vehicle quota control, transport infrastructure investment and vehicle travel: A pseudo panel analysis

Ist Teil von

• Urban studies (Edinburgh, Scotland), 2020-09, Vol.57 (12), p.2527-2546

Ort / Verlag

London, England: Sage Publications, Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

PAIS Index

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Transport pricing and infrastructure investment are widely seen as essential elements in policy packages aiming to address transport challenges. However, their respective and collective causal influences on travel behaviour have not been sufficiently examined. In this study, we investigate the effects of vehicle quota control and transport infrastructure investment on vehicle travel in Singapore, with a pseudo panel created from three repeated cross-sectional household surveys. We find that vehicle quota control has a substantial influence on vehicle usage by constraining car ownership. However, this mitigation effect might be partially offset by the higher car usage among car owners who want to make more out of their investment in private cars, confirming the existence of sunk cost effect in transport pricing. Careful design of vehicle quota control policies is thus necessary to avoid the overuse issue. We also find that rail transit network expansion reduces vehicle usage, while expressway network expansion increases it. An integrated approach that combines pricing measures to discourage vehicle usage and public transport investment to provide alternatives to driving may be more effective in achieving transport sustainability. 运输定价和基础设施投资被广泛视为旨在应对运输挑战的一揽子政策的基本要素。然而，它们各自和共同对出行行为的因果影响尚未得到充分研究。在本研究中，我们调查了车辆配额控制和交通基础设施投资对新加坡车辆出行的影响，并通过三次重复的横断面家庭调查创建了一个伪面板。我们发现，通过限制车辆所有权，车辆配额控制对车辆使用有很大影响。然而，这种缓解效应可能会被车主更高的汽车使用率部分抵消，他们希望从私人汽车投资中获得更多效用，这证实了运输定价中存在沉没成本效应。因此，必须仔细设计车辆配额控制政策，以避免过度使用问题。我们还发现，轨道交通网络的扩展减少了车辆的使用，而高速公路网络的扩展增加了车辆的使用。将抑制车辆使用的定价措施与提供替代自驾的公共交通投资相结合，这种综合方法可能会更有效地实现交通可持续性。