Colleagues
The next CTS seminar will be presented by
Dr Jose-Maria Grisolia
who is currently visiting the CTS at UCL.
Title:
Determining congestion charging acceptability in Spain
Abstract
In this seminar, we investigate which variables affect people's
reaction to urban
pricing schemes in Spain. Most of works in this topic discover that
the essential
causes are not socioeconomic variables but the perceptions, attitudes
and beliefs
of respondents. In order to measure these concepts, a Likert scale
questionnaire
was undertaken in a survey of 83 individuals grouping 19 items into
seven categories:
sensitivity towards environmental problems; responsibility; style of
life favourable to
cars; perception of transport problems; sensation of freedom
restriction; inequality
and personal gains, reserving an item, as a dependent variable, for
acceptance. This
questionnaire, along with the qualitative analysis from a previous
focus group, shows
the important differences between drivers and non drivers and the
general strong
public rejection. This belief comes along with the perception of the
effectiveness of
such a measure.
Among the explanation factors two ideas emerge: individuals are
concerned about
distributional aspects of pricing, not only in terms of income but in
terms of use of
space (it is considered a privilege for city centre's residents);
secondly, and most
important, there is a strong fear of lack of transparency in managing revenues
(i.e. corruption) or mismanagement of the whole system.
The methodology uses qualitative analysis from focus group and
employs frequencies
of opinions previously categorized into different groups- as an input
for a regression
model that was run using path analysis.
Place:
Room 218 (second floor) Chadwick Building UCL
Time:
16:00-17:30, Wednesday 7 May 2008
The Chadwick Building is in the front quad of UCL immediately to the south
of the main entrance from Gower Street.
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Benjamin Heydecker
Professor of Transport Studies
Centre for Transport Studies
University College London
Gower Street
LONDON WC1E 6BT
England
Phone: 020-7679 1553
Fax: 020-7679 1567
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www.cts.ucl.ac.uk
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