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THE RELATIONSHIP OF VEHICLE TYPE CHOICE TO
PERSONALITY, LIFESTYLE, ATTITUDINAL, AND
DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES

UCD-ITS-RR-02-06

by
Sangho Choo
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of California
Davis, California
phone: 530-754-7421 fax: 530-752-6572
cshchoo@ucdavis.edu
and
Patricia L. Mokhtarian
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
and
Institute of Transportation Studies
University of California
Davis, California
phone: 530-752-7062 fax: 530-752-7872
plmokhtarian@ucdavis.edu

October 2002

This research is funded by the DaimlerChrysler Corporation.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF TABLES ............................................................................................................... iv
LIST OF FIGURES .............................................................................................................. v
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................................................ vi
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ................................................................................................vii
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION....................................................................................... 1
CHAPTER 2. LITERATURE REVIEW........................................................................... 5
2.1 VEHICLE TYPE CHOICE MODELS ................................................................................... 5
2.1.1 Vehicle Choice Models: Review of Previous Studies and Directions for Further
Research – Timothy J. Tardiff (1980) .............................................................................. 6
2.1.2 Recent Directions in Automobile Demand Modeling –
Fred Mannering and Kenneth Train (1985) .................................................................... 7
2.1.3 A Disaggregate Model of Auto-Type Choice –
Charles A. Lave and Kenneth Train (1979)...

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