Acceptability of Transport Pricing Strategies
MC-ICAM Conference on Acceptability of Transport Pricing Strategies, Dresden, 2002

Based on the MC-ICAM conference, this text discusses various questions relating to achieving a general public acceptance of various "road pricing" measures.

A third aim deals with chances to overcome the lack of public and political acceptability, to bring together the most advanced state of the art and to propose forthcoming and possible solutions for implementing different kinds of travel demand management measures including pricing. The book is based upon papers presented at the MC ICAM conference on Acceptability of Transport Pricing Strategies, held in Dresden, 23-24 May, 2002. It is divided into four parts, Setting the Stage: Acceptability Problem, European Research Results, Behind Public Acceptability: Relevant Determinants, and Political Acceptability, and tackles several relevant parts from a theoretical as well as from a practical viewpoint by asking questions like: how to explain the different levels of public acceptability of various travel demand management measures? Which factors influence the level of acceptability? How to deal with political acceptability problems? What should future implementation approaches look like from the point of view of acceptability?

Part 1 Setting the Stage - Acceptability Problem: Efficient pricing in transport - overview of European Commission's Transport Research Programme, C. Sikow-Magny
Acceptability of road user charging: meeting the challenge, P. Jones
why are efficient transport policy instruments so seldom used?, B.S. Frey
urban road pricing in Norway: public acceptability and travel behaviour, T. Tretvik
Reforming transport pricing: an economic perspective on equity, efficiency and acceptability, I. Mayeres, S. Proost. Part 2 European Research Results: European research results on transport pricing acceptability, J. Schade
Environmental awareness and acceptability of pricing policy in Germany, U. Kuckartz, H. Grunenberg
success and failure - experiences from cities, B. H rsman
An analytical framework of pricing acceptability: application to four case studies, C. Raux, S. Souche
Acceptability of price changes in urban mobility, J.M. Viegas, R. Mac rio. Part 3 Behind Public Acceptability - Relevant Determinants: Factors influencing the acceptability and effectiveness of transport pricing, L. Steg
Acceptability of road user charging: the influence of selfish and social perspectives, S. Jaensirisak et al
which role does the objective play? Empirical findings from Germany, O. H lzer
Determinants of people's acceptability of pricing measures - replication and extension of a causal model, S. Bamberg, D. R lle
Willingness to support traffic policy measures: the role of justice, H. Ittner et al. Part 4 Political Acceptability: Political acceptance of road pricing: goal conflicts in municipality decision making, L-O. Johansson et al
Individual uncertainty and the political acceptability of road pricing policies, E. Marcucci, M. Marini
public and political acceptability of transport pricing: are there differences?, H. Link.