Acceptability of Road User Charging: The Influence of Selfish and Social Perspectives

Jaensirisak, Sittha; May, Anthony D.; Wardman, Mark

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“…They found that voting support is influenced by the perceptions of personal and society benefits, while the impact of personal well-being is stronger. Based on a survey conducted in four European cities, Schade and Schlag (2003b) also found that the perceived effectiveness of congestion charging has a positive impact on its acceptance level (which is in line with Jaensirisak et al (2003), Ubbels and Verhoef (2006), Jou et al (2007) and Eliasson and Jonsson (2011)), as well as social norms (the perceived social pressure to accept the strategy) and personal outcome expectations.…”

Section: Referendum Voting Behaviour and Acceptability Of Congestion mentioning

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“…A particularly important finding (in a context of no experience with congestion charging through a trial) is that when the revenue allocation is recognised in conjunction with distance-based charging, the support increases from 17.6 per cent to between 25.5 and 27.1 per cent (depending on the revenue allocation plan). Jaensirisak et al (2003) investigated the impact of selfish (i.e., primarily concerned with their own benefits) and social perspectives (i.e., primarily concerned with society's well-being) of individuals on voting behaviour. They found that voting support is influenced by the perceptions of personal and society benefits, while the impact of personal well-being is stronger.…”

Section: Referendum Voting Behaviour and Acceptability Of Congestion mentioning

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Referendum voting in road pricing reform: A review of the evidence

Hensher

2013

Transport Policy

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Voting support for congestion charging has a very recent history with, until now, only two congestion charging schemes approved by a majority in referendum voting (Stockholm and Milan). This paper presents a review of referendum voting behaviour in road pricing reform, in which a number of key factors that influence voters' behaviour are identified including voter expectations, awareness of what road pricing reform means, familiarity with the road pricing debate, perceived fairness, environmental concerns, car dependence, and the value of a trial. The two most important reasons that the majority of congestion charging proposals were voted against in referenda in jurisdictions such as Manchester and Edinburgh in the UK are uncertainty associated with the effectiveness of congestion charging and the lack of information on congestion charging. Based on two successful congestion charging referenda and ideas from research studies, this paper proposes a two-step approach to address the barriers to the successful implementation of congestion charging in a package of transport reform initiatives.

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Section: Referendum Voting Behaviour and Acceptability Of Congestion mentioning

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Referendum voting in road pricing reform: A review of the evidence

Hensher

2013

Transport Policy

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“…[3,27,32,39,[42][43][44][45][46][47]), New Zealand [27], Portugal [49], United Kingdom (e.g. [15,[18][19][20][21][22]30]). Among the developing countries, an SP survey to investigate acceptability and behavioural responses (e.g.…”

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Modelling the Behavioural Response to Congestion Pricing in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Siddique

Choudhury

2017

Transp. in Dev. Econ.

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“…This literature seeks to analyze what determines the votes of electors [3,6,9,17,[24][25][26][27][28][29]39], but without an ex-ante analysis and without really putting the data to the test, with the exception of Jaensirisak et al [28,29], Gaunt et al [17] and Harsman and Quigley [24] focusing only on the UK case study. A better understanding of intention change is a way of increasing transport policy effectiveness, as the cost of rejection can be important and sustained financially by society.…”

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Predicting the results of a referendum on urban road pricing in France: “the cry of Cassandra”?

Souche

Raux

Eliasson

et al. 2016

Eur. Transp. Res. Rev.

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Introduction Abundant literature now exists on the acceptability of the new pricing measure represented by urban tolls. However, this literature contains few examples providing a Bpolitical^analysis of their introduction. Here, our aim is to study how the political behavior of individuals, identified on the basis of general attitudes regarding the principles of regulation and pricing, influences, or does not influence, attitudes with respect to urban tolls. Method We study the ex-ante determinants of a vote on urban tolls. We use the results of a survey performed in France in the framework of the European Project ExpAcc (Explanatory Factors of Road User Charging Acceptability). We process the data using a Principal Components Analysis (PCA) then perform ordered logit estimation.Result Regarding the specific question to the referendum, we show that it would be rejected by electors. We also show that there is a significant link between general attitudes to regulation by legislation, tax or pricing policies in transport on the one hand, and the vote in the referendum on tolls on the other. We confirm that individual self-interest matters a lot in political behaviour but that other types of motives also matter strongly Conclusion As a consequence, a real-life political analysis cannot be limited to classical Beconomic^variables, even if they matter too obviously. Lastly, our results should be placed in relation with those concerning the more global issue of the acceptability of a new pricing measure through, for example, that of the compensation to be implemented.

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Acceptability of Road User Charging: The Influence of Selfish and Social Perspectives

Cited by 12 publications

References 5 publications

Referendum voting in road pricing reform: A review of the evidence

Referendum voting in road pricing reform: A review of the evidence

Modelling the Behavioural Response to Congestion Pricing in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Predicting the results of a referendum on urban road pricing in France: “the cry of Cassandra”?

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