Motorists underestimate total costs of car ownership

Travel Behaviour

Juliana O’Rourke
14 February 2022
 

The car is one of the most expensive household consumer goods, yet there is a limited understanding of its private (internal) and social (external) cost per vehicle-km, year, or lifetime of driving, says new research from Germany.

This comes as MPs urge Government to urgently explore the options for a distance- and vehicle-type national road-pricing scheme in the UK.

The research was picked up by Forbes, in which Carlton Reid wrote: “Cars can be convenient, but they are also incredibly...

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