The New Transport Charging Powers: The (Real) Issues for Business – Credibility, Fairness and Red Tape?

Whitehead, Timothy B

doi:10.1080/03003930500136915

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“…The idea was to put forth a`brand' that was recognisable to the Delphi members, all of whom had visited cities in continental Europe and were familiar with what was possible in terms of urban transport. Follow-up close dialogue or in-depth interviews with twenty of the Delphi panel members (Whitehead, 2005) indicated that the members took it on faith that these improvements would be implementedödespite a high degree of mistrust in the ability of government to deliver such improvements.…”

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“…Whitehead (2002) reported on the results of an in-depth interview programme that was conducted across the United Kingdom in order to identify the processes of economic change brought about by charging, and to scope out the conceptual framework for alternative methods of investigationö including the Delphi technique reported in this paper. Whitehead (2005) discussed the results of an in-depth interview programme that was conducted with business leaders in Nottingham in order to identify the full range of issues and problems that the business community there associates with charging. The implications of recycling revenues into environmental quality improvements, such as pedestrianisation, was investigated with original land-use/transport interaction modelling by Whitehead et al (2005).…”

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The Whole-Life Impacts of Transport-Charging Interventions on Business Performance: A Time-Marching Framework

2005

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A major concern of business with respect to transport-charging interventions is the context of revenue-investment policy, particularly how the timing of improvements may alter the time lags between fewer car journeys and more public transport journeys, and the problems for business in the intervening periods. The authors present a conceptual framework and case study of the whole-life effects on business performance. The impacts of charging occur as a sequence of gradually interacting changes, rather than as a single set of impacts, and positive amenity effects brought about through revenue hypothecation occur incrementally, taking years to achieve full effect. In the case study, a Delphi panel of business leaders predicted the time-marching effects of workplace-parking levies and road-user charging over a 24-year period in Nottingham. The findings revealed that the temporal nature of hypothecation results in minor fluctuations in performance for some business sectors in the first few years, but that these tail off as benefits gradually overwhelm disbenefits resulting in modest increases in performance for most sectors in the medium to long term. Many local authorities are reluctant to implement charging interventions due to concerns about economic vitality; it is expected that the results will inform policy and future research in this area.

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