TRAFFIC JAM - AN INTERNATIONAL STUDY OF AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL DEMAND

This study analyzes the demand for automobile travel in the United Sta tes, Japan, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and the United K ingdom. The influence of the transportation infrastructure and land us e patterns on automobile travel is estimated by including an index of rail kilometers per capita, road kilometers per capita, urbanization, and population density. A pooled double-log model With the assumption of full cross-sectional correlation and timewise autoregression is tes ted with a new international data set. While the assumption of constan t elasticities across countries is rejected, automobile travel demand is found to be price and income inelastic in all of the countries in t he study.