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原文传递 Understanding Public Acceptability of Congestion Charging in Beijing

题名：	Understanding Public Acceptability of Congestion Charging in Beijing
正文语种：	英文
作者：	Xin Li;Yun Yuan;Haoran Wang;Jia Hu
作者单位：	College of Transportation Engineering, Dalian Maritime Univ;Dept, of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ;College of Transportation Engineering, Tongji Univ
摘要：	Beijing, the capital city of China, currently experiences serious traffic congestion and extreme air pollution. To mitigate these issues, Beijing Municipality is currently considering implementing a congestion charging system that requires drivers to pay for entering congested areas. A stated preference survey of 5,468 Beijing residents was conducted mid-May 2016 to investigate public attitudes toward the proposal. This research analyzed the survey data using a multinomial logit (MNL) model and a cluster analysis to identify relationships between residents' characteristics (including the basic socioeconomic and demographic attributes; and their workday travel characteristics) and their attitudes toward Beijing congestion charging. Women are more likely to remain neutral toward congestion pricing. Among employment categories, students are most likely to support, the retired/unemployed are most likely to oppose, and the employed tend to fall between students and the retired/unemployed when it comes to acceptability of congesting pricing. Travelers who use public transit, bicycle, or walk to work are more likely to support congestion charging than car commuters. Income and car ownership have non linear relationships with acceptability. High- and low-income commuters are more likely to support congestion charging than middle-income commuters. Residents with no access to cars, with access to one car, or to more than two cars are more likely to support congestion charging than people with access to two cars. There is also a nonlinear relationship between the monetary amount people are willing to pay for the charge and their acceptance of congestion pricing, which merits additional research. The perceived effectiveness of congestion charging strongly influences their accep-tance, and so does a traveler's familiarity with the general congestion charging concept and the specific plan to be implemented in Beijing.
出版日期：	2020.01
出版年：	2020
期刊名称：	Journal of Transportation Engineering
卷：	Vol.146
期：	No.08
页码：	04020080