Author(s)

Yonghong Chen

Corresponding Author

Yonghong Chen

Abstract

In recent years, China has placed the external diseconomy of car traffic such as automobile pollution as the first priority gradually. The government often restricts the issuance of photographs and the limited number of trips. However, the real reason for the car ownership has not been discussed. This paper uses the data of China's prefecture-level cities to construct a model to empirically analyze the reasons for the number of car ownership in the city. It is found that the degree of development of the urban bus system affects the number of cars in a city. The number of taxis has a certain inhibitory effect on the growth of car ownership. Based on this, this paper provides some corresponding suggestions for urban governance and traffic management.

Keywords

Car ownership, Urban governance, Traffic management, Empirical analysis