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Gaining Public Support for Congestion Charging: Lessons from Referendum in Edinburgh, Scotland

Martin Gaunt, Tom Rye, and Stephen IsonView all authors and affiliations
Volume 1960, Issue 1
https://doi.org/10.1177/0361198106196000111

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Until February 25, 2005, the City of Edinburgh in Scotland, United Kingdom, had advanced plans for a congestion charging scheme. However, these plans were abandoned because of public acceptability problems and in particular to a referendum on the issue. The origins of the scheme in transport plans for the Edinburgh region since 1992 are explained; the nature of the planned scheme, its extent, charging technology, and predicted effect are outlined. Some evidence is presented on how and why people voted as they did in the referendum, including their attitudes to and understanding of the proposed scheme and its promoters. From these two perspectives, it is then postulated how the scheme could have been made more acceptable.

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Volume 1960, Issue 1
Pages: 87 - 93
Article first published: January 2006
Issue published: January 2006

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Martin Gaunt
Steer Davies Gleave, 28–32 Upper Ground, London SE1 9PD, United Kingdom
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Tom Rye
School of the Built Environment/Transport Research Institute, Napier University, 10 Colinton Road, Edinburgh EH10 5DT, Scotland
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Stephen Ison
Transport Studies Group, Department of Civil and Building Engineering, Lough-borough University, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, United Kingdom
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