Transportation Spending by Low-Income California Households ...

among the low-income group, there is considerable variation in the size
of the transportation budget share, with some households spending
nothing and others spending 30 percent or more toward transportation.
Vehicle ownership in particular seems to be a strong factor in
determining how much of the household budget goes toward
transportation. The findings in this chapter indicate that vehicle-related
expenditures are rather high and transit costs are relatively low, but
because the expenditure data exclude information on the cost of items
that are not purchased, we cannot necessarily assume that these same
patterns accurately represent the relative costs of these modes. The next
chapter addresses the issue of costs more directly.
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