The study attempts to investigate travel demand, vehicle ownership, and transport policies for Southeast Asian cities of Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, and Nagoya. At first, Multinomial Logit Models (MNL) were developed to analyze the travel demand in the cities concerned. Then, the estimation results of the developed travel demand models were successfully used in computing accessibility information for modeling vehicle ownership in Asian cities. In addition to the accessibility inputs, household related vehicle ownership and socio economic data were incorporated for analyzing vehicle ownership in a comprehensive modeling framework. Since car and motorcycle ownership are very high in Asian cities, vehicle ownership models for each city were developed as Bivariate Ordered Response Probit Models (BOPM). Estimation results of the travel demand models and the vehicle ownership models were successfully incorporated to compare the trends of travel demand and vehicle ownership in different Asian cities.

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