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This work was supported by the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovaci ' on y Universidades, which has funded the Project RTC-2017-6555-4 (APPARCCO).

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What impact do private vehicle restrictions in urban areas have on car ownership? Empirical evidence from the city of Madrid

Publicated to:Cities. 116 103301- - 2021-09-01 116(), DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2021.103301

Authors: Nicolas Gonzalez, Juan; Perez-Doval, Jose; Gomez, Juan; Manuel Vassallo, Jose;

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Abstract

City characteristics and transport policies influence individuals' decisions to own and use private vehicles, thereby impacting on externalities and quality of life. This research explores to what extent car ownership is influenced by the implementation of transport policies aimed at improving urban sustainability in the city of Madrid. Through the calibration of a Multilevel Ordered Logit Model, household car ownership is explained in terms of sociodemographic characteristics, city built-environment variables, transport network attributes, and policy-related variables. The results indicate that built environment factors play a key role in explaining car ownership trends. Moreover, ceteris paribus policies aimed at deterring private vehicles' use seem to discourage households from purchasing cars.

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Build environmentBuilt environmentCar ownershipChoiceDemandIncomeLow emissions zoneMobilityTransport policyTravelUrban sustainabilityUsage

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Cities due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2021, it was in position 2/43, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Urban Studies. Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations from Scopus Elsevier, it yields a value for the Field-Weighted Citation Impact from the Scopus agency: 1.23, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)

This information is reinforced by other indicators of the same type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of their calculation, consistently position the work at some point among the top 50% most cited in its field:

  • Field Citation Ratio (FCR) from Dimensions: 9.37 (source consulted: Dimensions May 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-05-31, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 8
  • Scopus: 26
  • Google Scholar: 24
  • OpenCitations: 21

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-05-31:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 78.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 77 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 21.7.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 31 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (GONZALEZ SARMIENTO, JUAN NICOLAS) and Last Author (VASSALLO MAGRO, JOSE MANUEL).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been GONZALEZ SARMIENTO, JUAN NICOLAS.