Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference "Far East Con" (ISCFEC 2020)

To Own or Not to Own: Costs for Car Ownership in Sharing Economy

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N Starodubets, V Derbeveva, V Koksharov
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N Starodubets
Available Online 17 March 2020.
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10.2991/aebmr.k.200312.438How to use a DOI?
Abstract

The article is devoted to issues related to comparing the costs of owning a car and using a taxi in sharing economy. The article provides a methodological approach related to the full accounting of costs and the calculation of costs per kilometre with the corresponding microeconomic model building. The authors considered a case of Ekaterinburg city, one of the leading industrial Russian cities with a high number of cars per 1000 people. The calculations made it possible to identify the equilibrium point – the annual mileage, at which the unit cost of owning a car is equal to the cost of using a taxi. According to the presented model, if a citizen passes less than 5,000 km a year – it’s more profitable to do this by taxi. For longer annual kilometres driven, the total costs of a taxi will be higher than the total costs of owning a car. The obtained results contribute to a better understanding of citizens’ travelling behavior and helps to form a transport policy that helps to reduce the number of private cars in big cities and makes cities more sustainable.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference "Far East Con" (ISCFEC 2020)
Series
Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
Publication Date
17 March 2020
ISBN
978-94-6252-929-8
ISSN
2352-5428
DOI
10.2991/aebmr.k.200312.438How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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