Priceless policies: factors influencing the acceptability of transport pricing policies

After many years of intense debate on transport pricing, the Dutch government recently decided to implement a national kilometre charge. Lorries will be charged from 2012 and, next, the charge will gradually be implemented for private cars. During his presentation of the plans for the kilometer charge, the Dutch Minister of Transport declared that public support is one of the main premises for the kilometre charge. Indeed, public support appears to be crucial in this respect, because lack of public support hindered the implementation of transport pricing policies in the Netherlands during the last decades(Nationaal Platform Anders Betalen voor Mobiliteit, 2005). Similarly, in many other countries, transport pricing has hardly been implemented due to low acceptability levels. Thus, public support is a very important precondition for the implementation of transport pricing policies. Therefore, the main objective of this thesis is to understand which factors influence the acceptability of transport pricing policies.

• Record URL:
  • http://dissertations.ub.rug.nl/faculties/gmw/2010/g.schuitema/?pLanguage=en&pFullItemRecord=ON
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Doctoral thesis
• Authors:
  • Schuitema, G
• Publication Date: 2010

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 111p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Economics; Pricing; Public opinion
• ATRI Terms: Public opinion; Transport economics; Transport pricing
• Subject Areas: Economics;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01383195
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ATRI
• Created Date: Aug 22 2012 1:55PM