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Gaofeng Gu
Department of the Build Environment, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands

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Published: 16 June 2021 in Sustainability
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Life course events can change household travel demand dramatically. Recent studies of car ownership have examined the impacts of life course events on the purchasing, replacing, and disposing of cars. However, with the increasing diversification of mobility tools, changing the fleet size is not the only option to adapt to the change caused by life course events. People have various options with the development of sustainable mobility tools including electric car, electric bike, and car sharing. In order to determine the impacts of life course events on car ownership and the decision of mobility tool type, a stated choice experiment was conducted. The experiment also investigated how the attributes of mobility tools related to the acceptance of them. Based on existing literature, we identified the attributes of mobility tools and several life course events which are considered to be influential in car ownership decision and new types of mobility tools choice. The error component random parameter logit model was estimated. The heterogeneity across people on current car and specific mobility tools are considered. The results indicate people incline not to sell their current car when they choose an electric bike or shared car. Regarding the life course events, baby birth increases the probability to purchase an additional car, while it decreases the probability to purchase an electric bike or joining a car sharing scheme. Moreover, the estimation of error components implies that there is unobserved heterogeneity across respondents on the sustainable mobility tools choice and the decision on household’s current car.

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Gaofeng Gu; Tao Feng; Chixing Zhong; Xiaoxi Cai; Jiang Li. The Effects of Life Course Events on Car Ownership and Sustainable Mobility Tools Adoption Decisions: Results of an Error Component Random Parameter Logit Model. Sustainability 2021, 13, 6816 .

AMA Style

Gaofeng Gu, Tao Feng, Chixing Zhong, Xiaoxi Cai, Jiang Li. The Effects of Life Course Events on Car Ownership and Sustainable Mobility Tools Adoption Decisions: Results of an Error Component Random Parameter Logit Model. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (12):6816.

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Gaofeng Gu; Tao Feng; Chixing Zhong; Xiaoxi Cai; Jiang Li. 2021. "The Effects of Life Course Events on Car Ownership and Sustainable Mobility Tools Adoption Decisions: Results of an Error Component Random Parameter Logit Model." Sustainability 13, no. 12: 6816.