Car Users’ Acceptability of a Kilometre Charge

Abstract

This chapter argues that individual car users will consider two types of effects when evaluating the acceptability of road pricing: effects on the problems resulting form car use (for example congestion) and effects of their own car use. The authors content that the latter will depend on the degree to which a car user can cope with expected cost increases, which will be related to factors like annual kilometers traveled, income and price level. The authors next examine how acceptability judgments are related to possibilities of evading transport-pricing policies, and the extent to which car users are compensated for negative consequences via revenue allocations.