The purpose of this report is to provide data pertaining to the percentage of vehicle ownership as well as the time spent on the road per week of three various vehicles of households in Burma from 1960 to 2020. The hours per week is presented in hrs/w.
Overall, it can be observed that all vehicle ownership increased overtime, with a decline of motorcycles and trucks from 2000 to 2020. As for the time spent on the road per week, only cars’ time spent increased at the end of the time frame.
This analysis will begin with vehicle ownership. As far as motorcycles were concerned, it dramatically rose from 25% in 1960 to 80% in 2000, then gradually decreased to 67% by 2020. Similarly, truck ownership increased moderately from 4% in 1960 to 24% by 2020 with a peak of 25% in 2000. Car ownership, though, skyrocketed from 10% in 1960 to 80% by the end of the time frame, making it the highest ownership overall.
Moving on to the hours on the road weekly, truck hours decreased significantly from 12 hrs/w in 1980 to just 8 hrs/w by 2020, peaking at 14 hrs/w in 1980. In contrast, motorcycle time on the road increased immensely from 4 hrs/w in 1960 to 7,6 hrs/w in 2000, then proceeded to drop to 5 hrs/w by the end of the timeframe. The trend on cars’ time spent on the road however, saw an increase fluctuation ranging from 6 hrs/w to 7 hrs/w throughout the period.