Understanding public response to a congestion charge: A random-effects ordered logit approach

Zheng, Zuduo; Liu, Zhiyuan; Liu, Chuanli; Shiwakoti, Nirajan

doi:10.1016/j.tra.2014.10.016

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“…In many countries, congestion charges, which are fees charged to those who travel in certain areas with private vehicles [7], are viewed as a powerful tool to alleviate traffic-sourced GHG emissions, and have already been implemented in Singapore in 1975, London in 2003, Stockholm in 2006, and Milan in 2012. Congestion charge implementation has encountered public opposition in many cities, including Edinburgh and New York [8].…”

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How Smog Awareness Influences Public Acceptance of Congestion Charge Policies

Zhou

Dai

2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:Although various studies have investigated public acceptance of congestion charge policies, most of them have focused on behavioral and policy-related factors, and did not consider the moderating influence that individual concern about smog and perceived smog risk may have on public acceptance. This paper takes the congestion charge policy in China, targeted at smog and traffic control, and checks how smog awareness-including smog concerns and perceived smog risks, besides behavioral and policy-related factors-might influence public acceptance of the policy. In this paper, we found both a direct and moderating causal relationship between smog awareness and public acceptance. Based on a sample of 574 valid questionnaires in Beijing and Shanghai in 2016, an ordered logistic regression modeling approach was used to delineate the causality between smog awareness and public acceptance. We found that both smog concerns, such as perceived smog risk, and willingness to pay (WTP) were both directly and indirectly positively correlated with public acceptance. These findings imply that policymakers should increase policy fairness with environmental-oriented policy design and should express potential policy effectiveness of the smog controlling policy to citizens to increase their acceptance level.

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How Smog Awareness Influences Public Acceptance of Congestion Charge Policies

Zhou

Dai

2017

Sustainability

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“…The study of the acceptability of toll road pricing constitutes a complex issue that can be approached from different perspectives (Zheng et al, 2014) such as the perceived fairness of charges (Cools et al, 2011;Fujii et al, 2004), political bias (Hårsman and Quigley, 2010) or existing community values (Yusuf et al, 2014). Particularly, Smirti et al (2007) acknowledged that the level of acceptability may sometimes be highly context-specific, so attitudes may change across roads or, at an upper level, even across territories with different characteristics.…”

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“…Regarding the transport sector, this is especially relevant in the case of road charging strategies (Zheng et al, 2014;Kockelman et al, 2009), that is being a policy increasingly adopted by governments to collect stable resources to face budgetary constraints. In this respect, Dill and Weinstein (2007) claim that policy makers must seek to recommend options that not only have strong public support, but are also desirable in terms of equity, ability to generate stable revenue, capacity to encourage environmentally responsible choices, etc.…”

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Measuring regional differences in users' perceptions towards interurban toll roads

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Vassallo

2016

Journal of Transport Geography

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Public acceptability is crucial to achieve the successful implementation of certain policy initiatives. In the transport sector, this is especially relevant for toll roads since they entail a burden to the users. Previous literature in this field has mainly focused on analyzing the influence of different individual characteristics on attitudes towards road charges, without clear results. However, other context-specific drivers such as regional parameters may also play an important role to explain users' attitudes, especially when the implementation of tolls within the same nation varies throughout regions. The goal of this paper is to analyze regional differences in users' perceptions with regard to tolls as an appropriate way to finance the provision of road infrastructure. Based on a nationwide survey conducted to road users in interurban toll roads in Spain, we develop a multilevel logit model to explore regional differences in drivers' perceptions. The research concludes that differences identified seem to be more influenced by context-specific variables, related to either the characteristics of the toll road or the region, than by the characteristics of the individuals. The paper also underlines the negative effects of an asymmetrical distribution of toll roads across regions on users' perceptions, since those territories especially suffering the burden of tolls show a more negative attitude towards road charging.

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“…On the other hand, some contradictory results were also reported [20]. Both public acceptance and drivers' response have been assessed [21][22][23][24]. Congestion charge has a wide influence on different facets of a society.…”

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Persistent oscillations in a traffic model with decision-making

Huang

2019

SN Appl. Sci.

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This work explores the nonlinear behaviour in a congestion charge model, which emphasizes the correlation between drivers' response and optimal traffic flow. The model assumes that all drivers follow the same common rules of rational thinking to avoid the congestion. There are two regimes in the model system. In free flow regime, the system has only one branch. In congested regime, the system bifurcates into two branches. Counter-intuitive behaviour of the model is caused by the oscillatory instability between two branches. Persistent oscillations reflect the intrinsic properties of decision-making process. Rational thinking provides limited adaptation capabilities to reach the optimal traffic flow. More past experiences and current options provide only marginal increase in capabilities to adapt to traffic situations. The idealized situations are also discussed.

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Understanding public response to a congestion charge: A random-effects ordered logit approach

Cited by 45 publications

References 45 publications

How Smog Awareness Influences Public Acceptance of Congestion Charge Policies

How Smog Awareness Influences Public Acceptance of Congestion Charge Policies

Measuring regional differences in users' perceptions towards interurban toll roads

Persistent oscillations in a traffic model with decision-making

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