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AN ANALYSIS THE WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR GASOLINE PRICES

Low gasoline prices in Iran, as well as the high rate of car ownership, have been the main reasons behind in­creased air pollution, network congestion and other rel­evant problems in Iranian large cities for a number of years. As it is clear that relevant changes would affect indi­vidual mode of life choices and their resulted demand, the effects on the supply side are also noticeable. In this research, an attempt has been made to analyze the "will­ingness to pay" concept for gasoline prices and to inves­tigate the effect on the fuel demand function. The stated preference data, gathered through a post-back method questionnaire, provided the required data for modeling the "willingness to pay" for gasoline prices for the city of Tehran. A one-stage ordered Probit and a two-stage (binary and ordered) Probit model have been calibrated in an extensive model development, process. From the results of the developed models, one can deter­mine the societyʹs willingness to bear the new ga-oline price. The results of the "willingness to pay" models showed that high levels of education, professional status, age and ownership of expensive car models have positive effects on "willingness to pay". The distance between origin and destination is the major variable that nega­tively affects a higher fuel price. The results also indicate a rather higher "willingness to pay" in Iran (Tehran) compared with other countries. No significant difference was observed between the one-stage and the two-stage modeling processes reduction in fric- tional resistance between the -walls and steel bond beams were effective on the out.-of-plane failure of the brick walls