The unexpected "yes!" : Explanatory factors behind the positive attitudes to congestion charges in Stockholm

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Individual Factors Influencing Acceptability for Environmental Policies: A Review and Research Agenda (2020, background): “Both in the transport and climate policy domain, some studies find that older age is positively related to acceptability [10,15,18], while others find a negative relationship between age and acceptability [16,17,23] and others yet find no relationship at all [13].”
Pro-environmental behavior correlates with present and future subjective well-being (2016, background): “acceptance and is currently performing better than initially anticipated (Börjesson et al. 2012; Eliasson and Jonsson 2011).”
What explains public support for climate policies? A review of empirical and experimental studies (2016, background): “Or take the congestion charge in Stockholm; Eliasson and Jonsson (2011) conclude that, besides environmental concerns, the perceived effectiveness of the charge played the most decisive role in its acceptance.”
The Stockholm congestion charges – five years on. Effects, acceptability and lessons learnt (2012, background): “Attitudes, behaviour, objective effects and how effects are perceived are all interrelated, as shown in Figure 5 (from (Eliasson & Jonsson 2011)): The objective effects of the charges cause two types of perceived effects.”