Public Acceptability of Road User Charging: The Case of Edinburgh and the 2005 Referendum

By M. Gaunt, T. Rye, Simon Allen. 2007

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Explaining differences in acceptability before and acceptance after the implementation of a congestion charge in Stockholm (2010, background): “If people do not expect road pricing schemes to achieve their objectives, public support for these schemes is low (e.g., Gaunt et al., 2007).”
Attitudes towards road pricing and environmental taxation among US and UK students (2013, background): “For example in Edinburgh the discussion of possible economic effects of a proposed scheme raised concerns leading to its rejection in a referendum (Gaunt et al., 2007).”
Public acceptance for environmental taxes: Self-interest, environmental and distributional concerns (2011, background): “Gaunt et al. (2007), analyzing the rejection of the Edinburgh road user charge, find that “the public were largely unconvinced that the scheme would have achieved its dual objectives of reducing congestion and improving public transport.””
Individual Factors Influencing Acceptability for Environmental Policies: A Review and Research Agenda (2020, background): “Similarly, being dependent on cars for transportation is negatively correlated with support for both environmental taxes and transport policies [7,11,75].”