Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2020, 68(3), 605-612 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun202068030605

Modelling Household Car Ownership in the Selected Regions of the Czech Republic

Martina Čampulová1, Roman Čampula2
1 Department of Statistics and Operation Analysis, Faculty of Business and Economics, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00, Brno, Czech Republic
2 CDV - Transport Research Centre, Líšeňská 33a, 636 00, Brno, Czech Republic

Car ownership models are essential for forecasting transport demand as well as for addressing the resulting impacts of traffic emissions and appropriate measures. The paper presents the multinomial logit model for the selected regions of the Czech Republic analysing the relationship between household car ownership and household characteristics such as household income, number of household members and number of children. The model was applied to data collected by questionnaire survey conducted in two Czech cities Litoměřice and Písek in the years 2017 and 2019. In total, three car ownership categories were specified: one car, two cars, three and more cars. The results showed that household income and the number of household members owning a driving licence has a positive impact on owning two and more cars. Besides that, it was also found out that the number of cars owned by a household is influenced by the number of retired pensioners and a possibility to use a company car.

Keywords: car ownership, multinomial logit model, household characteristics, Czech Republic, Litoměřice, Písek
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This article was created with the financial support of the Ministry of Transport within the programme of long-term conceptual development of research institutions on the research infrastructure acquired from the Operational Programme Research and Development for Innovation (CZ.1.05/2.1.00/03.0064).

Received: May 11, 2020; Accepted: June 12, 2020; Published: July 1, 2020  Show citation

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Čampulová, M., & Čampula, R. (2020). Modelling Household Car Ownership in the Selected Regions of the Czech Republic. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 68(3), 605-612. doi: 10.11118/actaun202068030605
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