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Rural–Nonrural Divide in Car Access and Unmet Travel Need in the United States
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2023-09-07
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Corporate Creators:University of California, Davis, Institute of Transportation Studies ; University of Vermont. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering ; University of California, Davis. Department of Environmental Science and Policy ; United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Office of Vehicle Crash Avoidance and Electronic Controls
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Abstract:Car access is practically a necessity to get around in rural areas of the United States. Yet approximately 4% of rural residents or 4.3 million people do not have a car. Despite important rural–nonrural differences in the built environment and how people travel, research on rural mobility disparities by car access is limited. This paper addresses this gap by asking and answering the following questions: (1) What are the scope and scale of rural car access in the U.S. and what are the factors associated with not having a car? (2) How do rural carless residents get around relative to their nonrural peers? (3) What are the consequences of not having car access in rural areas? We used a dichotomous rural–nonrural classification to evaluate differences in car access and mobility outcomes between rural and nonrural areas using the U.S. Census Bureau Public Use Microdata Sample and the National Household Travel Survey.
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Content Notes:This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Please cite this article as:
Wang, W., Espeland, S., Barajas, J.M. et al. Rural–nonrural divide in car access and unmet travel need in the United States. Transportation (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-023-10429-6
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