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Data from across the Western World suggests car use has reached a plateau. Why?

Gordon Stokes, University of Oxford

09 November 2012
Gordon Stokes is a visiting research associate at Transport Studies in the University of Oxford. He has held a variety of posts in transport research, policy and consultancy, including at TRRL, the Countryside Agency, Steer Davies Gleave, and Oxford’s Transport Studies Unit from 1986 to 1995.
Gordon Stokes is a visiting research associate at Transport Studies in the University of Oxford. He has held a variety of posts in transport research, policy and consultancy, including at TRRL, the Countryside Agency, Steer Davies Gleave, and Oxford’s Transport Studies Unit from 1986 to 1995.

 

In 1990 Sharon Cullinane (then Sharon Hallett) and I wrote a report called Attitudes to car ownership – the link with advertising (Oxford University Transport Studies Unit report 562). In our conclusions we discussed whether attachment to the car might be reduced. Amongst our ideas we wrote: “Another possibility is that some new product could hit the market which would make the car redundant in the psychological sense. It is hard to imagine what this could be. Computers seem to be...

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