PASSENGER CAR OWNERSHIP IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

The main purpose of this paper is to model the vehicle ownership, specifically, what to examine the main factors of owning a private passenger vehicle by a household during the transition and post-transition period in the Czech Republic. Although, there are studies which analyse consumer's choice on car ownership jointly with car use and/or other choices such as on working or residence location or land use characteristics, we merely examine household decision to own a private car. Specifically, we analyse the effect of main socio-demographic and structural variables on household's choice to own at least one car, and then the choice on the number of private cars their possess. Lastly, we focus on factors that determine household choice for not having a car at all because of a lack of financial resources or of their preference rather stay without a car. Validity of our results is confirmed by similar findings from two different household-level datasets and as estimated for several time-periods. Our results are also in line with conclusions from other studies.