Exploring the relationship between dog ownership and car use in the UK based on spatial data
AUTHORS Ian Philips Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds GB-LS29JT [email protected] Giulio Mattioli Transport Research Group, Department of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund DE-44227 [email protected] Jillian Anable Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds GB-LS29JT [email protected]
ABSTRACT Walking the dog, and other dog-related practices, have been suggested to be particularly car-dependent. Secondary data analysis presented finds associations between the high energy use practices of car travel and dog ownership. There is a strong association between the rate of dog ownership and car km travelled per person. This relationship holds when controlling for income, level of urbanisation, housing type and demographic variables.
We plot the data then apply OLS regression, then we look at spatial correlation, before running Spatial Durbin models and GWR.
We Use R and R studio