【摘要】 减少城市的小汽车交通量,促进城市交通运输能力的持续稳定发展,已成为人口密集型的大城市制定交通运输政策的一项主要目标,也是香港制定交通运输政策所期望达到的目标。但根据国际标准,香港居民对小汽车的拥有量和使用频率已经非常低了。首先是明确香港人为什么要拥有小汽车,其次是探索小汽车的拥有者对小汽车的依赖程度,第三是识别政策的含意。基于对401位小汽车拥有者的调查,得出了这样的结论:尽管城市里有很好的公共交通,但人们一旦拥有了小汽车后,便会开始变得依赖小汽车进行所有的外出活动。因此,为了促进交通运输持续、稳定发展,小汽车的拥有量和使用频率必须受到控制。更多还原

【Abstract】 Reducing car traffic to improve transport sustainability has become a major goal of transport policy. This is also the case in Hong Kong where car ownership and use is, by international standards, very low. The objectives here are first to determine why people own cars in Hong Kong, second to explore how dependent car owners are on their cars and third to identify the policy implications. Based on a survey of 401 car owners, the finding is that despite the existence of excellent public transport, once a car has been acquired, people become dependent on it for virtually all journey purposes. To achieve greater sustainability, therefore, car ownership and use must be controlled.更多还原