Prelims
Acceptability of Transport Pricing Strategies
ISBN: 978-0-08-044199-3, eISBN: 978-1-78-635950-6
Publication date: 17 October 2003
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(2003), "Prelims", Schade, J. and Schlag, B. (Ed.) Acceptability of Transport Pricing Strategies, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, p. i. https://doi.org/10.1108/9781786359506-020
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ACCEPTABILITY OF TRANSPORT PRICING STRATEGIES
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ACCEPTABILITY OF TRANSPORT PRICING STRATEGIES
Edited by
Jens Schade
Traffic and Transportation Psychology, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Bernhard Schlag
Traffic and Transportation Psychology, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
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Foreword
Esko Niskanen, Coordinator Project MC-ICAM
The European Union has emphasised transport pricing as a promising approach to deal with urgent problems in urban traffic such as congestion or environmental damage etc. The EU has stressed the importance of policy reform in pricing of transportation so that the prices could better allow for the problems. However, practical experience from Europe and all over the world as well as findings of many studies and research projects have shown that public and political acceptability of urban road pricing in which users would bear the full marginal social cost of their activities is very low.
This fact raises several interesting questions: How can the different levels of public and political acceptability of pricing vs. other, non-price means of travel demand management be explained? Which factors lie behind the low acceptability, and how could acceptability be increased? What would be an optimal implementation strategy, in terms of optimal policy packaging and phasing of the introduction of individual measures?
MC-ICAM (“Implementation of Marginal Cost Pricing in Transport - Integrated Conceptual and Applied Model Analysis”) is a research project funded by the European Union which has examined these questions. In particular, it has examined optimal implementation paths from a current situation with non-optimal pricing (level and structure of prices) of transportation to a situation with socially optimal pricing. It has evaluated alternative implementation or transition paths by examining how they affect social welfare over time, the technological and institutional changes which they require (or generate), and the public and political support which they induce over time.
This book is based on the MC-ICAM conference “Acceptability of transport pricing strategies”, held 23–24 May 2002 in Dresden. The conference was directed to policymakers/politicians, transport experts, academics and consultants. The overall aim was to bring together the most advanced state of the art and to contribute to an interdisciplinary exchange for developing a commonly agreed theoretical and methodological framework for acceptance studies, which would cover all relevant aspects of acceptance, integrating economic, psychological, sociological and political points of view. More specific aims were to identify key factors behind the lack of public and political acceptability, and, based on these analyses, to propose policy recommendations for implementing transport pricing. This would mean developing both new and innovative approaches to policy packaging and phasing as well as intelligent marketing strategies for the implementation of road user charging.
The conference succeeded in serving these goals very well. It provoked useful discussions between scientists from different research fields and disciplines as well as between practitioners and academics. This book can convey to the reader the results and spirit of the conference, and will provide him/her new thoughts and insights for further consideration, whether in research or practical policymaking.
Helsinki, February 2003
- Prelims
- Chapter 1. Acceptability of Transport Pricing Strategies: An Introduction
- Section 1. Setting the Stage: Acceptability Problem
- Chapter 2. Efficient Pricing in Transport – Overview of European Commission's Transport Research Programme
- Chapter 3. Acceptability of Road User Charging: Meeting the Challenge
- Chapter 4. Why Are Efficient Transport Policy Instruments so Seldom Used?
- Chapter 5. Urban Road Pricing in Norway: Public Acceptability and Travel Behaviour
- Chapter 6. Reforming Transport Pricing: An Economic Perspective on Equity, Efficiency and Acceptability
- Section 2. European Research Results
- Chapter 7. European Research Results on Transport Pricing Acceptability
- Chapter 8. Environmental Awareness and Acceptability of Pricing Policy in Germany
- Chapter 9. Success and Failure: Experiences from Cities
- Chapter 10. An Analytical Framework of Pricing Acceptability: Application to Four Case Studies
- Chapter 11. Acceptability of Price Changes in Urban Mobility
- Section 3. Behind Public Acceptability: Relevant Determinants
- Chapter 12. Factors Influencing the Acceptability and Effectiveness of Transport Pricing
- Chapter 13. Acceptability of Road User Charging: The Influence of Selfish and Social Perspectives
- Chapter 14. Which Role Does the Objective Play? Empirical Findings from Germany
- Chapter 15. Determinants of People's Acceptability of Pricing Measures: Replication and Extension of a Causal Model
- Chapter 16. Willingness to Support Traffic Policy Measures: The Role of Justice
- Section 4. Political Acceptability
- Chapter 17. Political Acceptance of Road Pricing: Goal Conflicts in Municipality Decision Making
- Chapter 18. Individual Uncertainty and the Political Acceptability of Road Pricing Policies
- Chapter 19. Public and Political Acceptability of Transport Pricing: Are There Differences?
- Contributors
- Subject Index
- Name Index