Acceptability of single and combined transport policy measures: The importance of environmental and policy specific beliefs

Accommodating underlying pro-environmental attitudes in a rail travel context: Application of a latent variable latent class specification

“…More recent research into environmental awareness and attitudes suggests that a moral norm to take action to help the environment is important in forming intentions to make travel behaviour changes which reduce carbon emissions. The work by Eriksson et al (2008) and King et al (2008) corroborates that of Bamberg et al (2007), who reported finding personal norms to be a significant determinant of intentions to use public transport. Similarly, Abrahamse et al (2009) reported that intentions to reduce car use were "mostly explained by ... personal norms".…”

“…Similarly, Abrahamse et al (2009) reported that intentions to reduce car use were "mostly explained by ... personal norms". These moral norms can be assessed through measurement of perceived responsibility (Eriksson et al, 2008) and moral obligation (Harland et al, 1999;Abrahamse et al, 2009) to take action to be environmentally friendly, and perceived responsibility and moral obligation to travel by…”

Improving the analysis of road pricing acceptability surveys by using hybrid models

“…First, predictions about acceptability derived from theoretical models that rest on assumptions about individual behavior tested against the results of a road-user survey (Jakobsson et al, 2000;Schuitema et al, 2007;Eriksson et al, 2008). Second, individual attitudes can be analyzed by means of an empirical survey (questionnaire, interview, etc.)…”

“…The acceptability of toll-road pricing become a complex matter that can be approached in a number of ways (Litman, 1996;Fridstrom et al, 2000;Eriksson et al, 2008). Generally speaking, it is difficult to reach a compromise in a road pricing scheme when there are desired and competing objectives such as efficiency and fairness (Mayeres and Proost, 2002).…”

“…In other words, social responsibility is not a major variable in explaining the acceptability of road pricing (Pridmore and Miola, 2011). However, various other studies using a psychological approach show that a strong latent variable which explains the acceptability of tolls before the implementation of a road pricing scheme is the perceived fairness (De Groot and Steg, 2006;Eriksson et al, 2008). The proposed method completes the economic approach of the discrete choice model with attitudinal factors (Ubbels and Verhoef, 2006).…”