Publication Detail

Motor-Vehicle Goods and Services Priced in the Private Sector: Report #5 in the series: The Annualized Social Cost of Motor-Vehicle Use in the United States, based on 1990-1991 Data

UCD-ITS-RR-96-03(05)

Research Report

Hydrogen Pathways Program

Suggested Citation:
Delucchi, Mark A. (2004) Motor-Vehicle Goods and Services Priced in the Private Sector: Report #5 in the series: The Annualized Social Cost of Motor-Vehicle Use in the United States, based on 1990-1991 Data. Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis, Research Report UCD-ITS-RR-96-03(05)

In this Report, I estimate the cost of motor vehicle goods and services priced in the private sector: the cost of the vehicles themselves, the cost of fuel and oil, cost of parts and maintenance, and so on. The economic cost of these motor-vehicle goods and services supplied in private markets is the area under the private supply curve: the value of the resources that a private market allocates to supplying vehicles, fuel, parts, insurance, and so on.