Rebound Effects for Passenger Vehicles in Urban and Rural Regions—An Analysis of Household Survey Data—

• ABE Tatsuya

  Graduate School of Economics, Waseda University

• MATSUMOTO Shigeru

  College of Economics, Aoyama Gakuin University

• IWATA Kazuyuki

  Faculty of Economics, Matsuyama University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 大都市圏と地方部の自動車のリバウンド効果—家計調査を用いた実証分析—

Abstract

In Japan, eco-friendly vehicles, such as hybrid vehicles, have been attracting attention as the government promotes them with subsidies and tax reductions. The target vehicles for promotion are selected according to their fuel economy performance, as per a nationwide uniform policy. Previous studies in Japan have observed a rebound effect when improved fuel economy increases the vehicle miles traveled; whereas no study has analyzed the differences in this rebound effect among domestic regions. If our study finds a gap in the rebound effect among regions, then the uniform promotion will be rendered cost-inefficient. Therefore, based on a survey of 790 households, this paper examines whether the rebound effect in urban regions is the same as in rural regions. Our empirical results show that: 1) there is no rebound effect in urban regions and, 2) the rebound effect is approximately 38 percent in rural regions. These findings suggest that the cost-effectiveness of the promotion in rural regions is less than that in urban regions. Thus, the government needs to set different subsidies for rural and urban regions, and promote the use of a public transport system in rural regions.

Journal

• ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

  ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE 30 (3), 203-214, 2017

  SOCIETY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, JAPAN

Keywords

• Passenger vehicle
• rebound effect
• greenhouse gases
• fuel efficiency

Details

• CRID: 1390001204424760320
• NII Article ID: 130006825370
• DOI: 10.11353/sesj.30.203
• ISSN: 18845029
• ISSN: 09150048
• Text Lang: ja
• Data Source:
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  • CiNii Articles
  • KAKEN
• Abstract License Flag: Disallowed