The Current Status of Vehicle Management and Future Projection of Vehicle Ownership in Samoa

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This paper particularly looks into the current situation on vehicle ownership from importation and registration data in Samoa using population growth models as the initial stages to a research on vehicle ownership and vehicle waste projection.  Vehicle ownership as presented in this paper is modeled and projected for necessary planning by the respective sectors by population growth models namely the Gompertz and Logistic functions.  The two models are used to estimate the vehicle ownership, and the results are compared and discussed in this paper.