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作者

Francis Ostermeijer;Hans RA. Koster;Jos van Ommeren

来源

REGIONAL SCIENCE AND URBAN ECONOMICS,Vol.77,Issue1,P.276-288

语言

英文

关键字

Residential parking cost;Car ownership;Semi-parametric regression;Automated vehicles;H23;R41;R48

作者单位

Department of Spatial Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081HV, Amsterdam, Netherlands;National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Russia;Tinbergen Institute, Netherlands;Centre for Economic Policy Research, UK;Department of Spatial Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081HV, Amsterdam, Netherlands;National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Russia;Tinbergen Institute, Netherlands;Centre for Economic Policy Research, UK

摘要

Residents are often offered on-street parking at a fraction of the market price which may cause excess car ownership. However, residential parking costs are difficult to observe, so we propose an approach to estimate implicit residential parking costs and then examine the effect of these costs on household car ownership. We apply our approach to the four largest metropolitan areas of the Netherlands. Our results indicate that for city centres, annual residential parking costs are around €1000, or roughly 17 percent of car ownership costs, and are more than double the costs in the periphery. Our empirical estimates indicate that the disparity in parking costs explains around 30% of the difference in average car ownership rates between these areas and corresponds to a price elasticity of car demand of about −0.7. We apply these estimates to gauge the potential implications of automated vehicles which suggests that, if residents no longer require parking nearby their homes, car demand in city centres may increase by 8–14 percent.