Liu, Q orcid.org/0000-0003-0953-7050, Lucas, K orcid.org/0000-0002-4009-7017 and Marsden, G orcid.org/0000-0003-3570-2793 (2021) Public acceptability of congestion charging in Beijing, China: How transferrable are Western ideas of public acceptability? International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 15 (2). pp. 97-110. ISSN 1556-8318
Abstract
Public acceptability is a major concern for road pricing schemes in Western countries but has not yet been sufficiently studied in the context of Chinese cities, a number of which are considering the introduction of such travel constraint measures. This study explores factors influencing public acceptability of a proposed congestion charge in the City of Beijing. In so doing, the study focuses on understanding the appropriateness of Western frameworks for assessing public acceptability in the Chinese context.
Through literature review and focus groups a survey to test different public acceptability constructs was developed (N = 1104). A Structural Equation Model was used to analyze relationships that exist among the different aspects of public acceptability. The results demonstrate that public acceptability is dominantly influenced by the level of trust toward the Government and experts. Various determinants in the Western context, such as access to information and perceived effectiveness were not found to have a significant impact on public acceptability. The results imply that public acceptability of congestion charging in the Chinese context has a stronger resonance with wider social issues such as equity than more specific transport problems such as congestion. As such, attempting to present evidence on the anticipated effectiveness of the policy in alleviating congestion and smog may not make the policy more acceptable to the public. The overall inference of the study is that contextual factors are more important than has been previously considered within public acceptability studies.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an author produced version of a paper published in International Journal of Sustainable Transportation. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Beijing, congestion charging, public acceptability, SEM, transferability |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > Institute for Transport Studies (Leeds) > ITS: Sustainable Transport Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 02 Jan 2020 09:52 |
Last Modified: | 18 Jul 2022 09:08 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/15568318.2019.1695158 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:154935 |