The politico-economic link between public transport and road pricing: An ex-ante study of the Stockholm road-pricing trial

Armelius, Hanna; Hultkrantz, Lars

doi:10.1016/j.tranpol.2005.11.011

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“…Earlier studies of Stockholm's congestion charging experience have suggested that the acceptance of congestion charges can be explained at least in part by the city's high share of public transport users, with median voters in favor of congestion charges due to their potential to benefit transit and reduce urban congestion (Armelius & Hultkrantz, 2006). However, this does not explain why charges were not imposed far earlier.…”

Section: Build Consensus or Forge Ahead?mentioning

confidence: 96%

Expanding the Scope of Sustainability Planning: Lessons from Stockholm’s Congestion Charging Policy

Olsson¹,

Davis

2017

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In 2007, after years of unresolved debate, the Swedish parliament approved a congestion charge for Stockholm applied to cars crossing the city's inner boundary. Since its introduction, congestion charging has led to an even more lasting reduction of car trips to the city center, in part because the policy generates revenues for financing new subway extensions and uses these same resources as the basis for negotiating new transit oriented housing in subway extension areas. As such, congestion charging is arguably as much a sustainable housing solution as it is a narrowly defined transit policy for reducing automobile congestion or pollution. This article investigates how and why Stockholm, despite considerable political conflict, technical complexity and negative public opinion, was able to turn a long-standing and controversial debate over moderating automobile traffic via tolls into widespread support for a national congestion tax, which itself laid the groundwork for a more expansive sustainability agenda. It further suggests that only when congestion charging was strategically reframed and widely recognized as addressing the concerns of multiple and competing constituencies, did efforts for its adoption translate into larger sustainability gains.

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Section: Build Consensus or Forge Ahead?mentioning

confidence: 96%

Expanding the Scope of Sustainability Planning: Lessons from Stockholm’s Congestion Charging Policy

Olsson¹,

Davis

2017

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“…Notably, congestion charges have been imposed in Singapore (McCarthy & Tay 1993), London and Stockholm (Armelius & Hultkrantz 2006), which after a six-month trial in 2006 was then approved by voters in the city (though rejected by those in the suburbs) and implemented by the government. One of the key criticisms of the London scheme has been its high collection costs.…”

Section: Turnpikes and Toll Roads (A ) Traditional Turnpikesmentioning

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Too expensive to meter: the influence of transaction costs in transportation and communication

Levinson

Odlyzko

2008

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.

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Technology appears to be making fine-scale charging (as in tolls on roads that depend on time of day or even on current and anticipated levels of congestion) increasingly feasible. Such charging also appears to be increasingly desirable, as traffic on roads continues to grow and costs and public opposition limit new construction. Similar incentives towards fine-scale charging also appear to be operating in communications and other areas, such as electricity usage. Standard economic theory supports such measures and technology is being developed and deployed to implement them. But their spread is not very rapid and their prospects for the future are uncertain. This paper presents a collection of sketches, ranging from ancient history to very recent developments, that illustrate the costs that charging imposes. Some of those costs are explicit (in terms of the monetary costs to users and the costs of implementing the charging mechanisms). Others are implicit, such as the time or the mental processing costs of users. These argue that the case for fine-scale charging is not unambiguous and that in many cases such charging may lead to undesirable outcomes.

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“…What quality and availability can be provided for modal alternatives [1,3,13,30,35]? Consequently, to what should the revenues generated from the toll be assigned [8,20,50,57,59]?…”

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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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The politico-economic link between public transport and road pricing: An ex-ante study of the Stockholm road-pricing trial

Cited by 41 publications

References 5 publications

Expanding the Scope of Sustainability Planning: Lessons from Stockholm’s Congestion Charging Policy

Expanding the Scope of Sustainability Planning: Lessons from Stockholm’s Congestion Charging Policy

Too expensive to meter: the influence of transaction costs in transportation and communication

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

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