The socio-cognitive links between road pricing acceptability and changes in travel-behavior

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 779-788

  Cools, Mario ^a,b   Brijs, Kris ^a,c   Tormans, Hans ^a   Moons, Elke ^a,d   Janssens, Davy ^a   Wets, Geert ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b RESEARCH FOUNDATION FLANDERS FWO   (Belgium)

^c PHL University College   (Belgium)

^d STATISTICS NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acceptability; Activity travel behavior; Road pricing; Socio cognitive factors; Stated adaptation experiment

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; ROADS AND STREETS; TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRANSPORTATION CHARGES;

ACCEPTABILITY; ACTIVITY-TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL CHANGES; HIERARCHICAL MODEL; PUBLIC ACCEPTABILITIES; ROAD PRICING; SOCIO-COGNITIVE; TRAVEL BEHAVIORS;

COSTS;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLICY MAKING; ROAD PRICING; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79960697432     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2011.06.006     Document Type: Article

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