Public acceptability of congestion charging in Beijing, China: How transferrable are Western ideas of public acceptability?
Public acceptability of congestion charging in Beijing, China: How transferrable are Western ideas of public acceptability?
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DOI：
10.1080/15568318.2019.1695158
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发表时间：
2019-11-30
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Marsden, Greg
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作者：
Liu, Qiyang;Lucas, Karen;Marsden, Greg
公众的可接受性是西方国家道路定价方案的一个主要关注点，但在中国城市的背景下尚未得到充分研究，其中一些城市正在考虑引入此类出行限制措施。本研究探讨了影响北京市公众对拟议拥堵费接受程度的因素。为此，本研究的重点是了解西方框架在中国背景下评估公众可接受性的适当性。通过文献综述和焦点小组，开展了一项测试不同公众可接受性结构的调查（N = 1104）。结构方程模型用于分析公众可接受性不同方面之间存在的关系。结果表明，公众的接受度主要取决于对政府和专家的信任程度。西方背景下的各种决定因素，例如信息获取和感知有效性，并未被发现对公众可接受性产生重大影响。结果表明，在中国背景下，公众对拥堵费的接受程度与公平等更广泛的社会问题的共鸣程度高于拥堵等更具体的交通问题。因此，试图提供证据证明该政策在缓解拥堵和雾霾方面的预期效果可能不会使该政策更容易被公众接受。该研究的总体推论是，背景因素比之前公众可接受性研究中考虑的更为重要。
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.