Abstract
In this paper, the elasticities of fuel price and income for household gasoline consumption and their change from 1980's to 1990's are estimated for Japanese cities using data from Japan's Family Income and Expenditure Survey, consciously taking into consideration local characteristics. Income elasticity decreases from the 1980's to the 1990's in both major and the non-major cities, and price elasticity decreases in major cities. A decline in these elasticities of household car ownership ratio plays a major role. Simultaneously, population density elasticity increases. This suggests that economic tools work at the early stage, but in the later stage, land use control to increase population density plays a relatively important role.
