Road Pricing: Travel Behavior and Public Support

Alice Ciccone, Cloé Garnache and Gøril Louise Andreassen

No 11867, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: We conduct a large-scale randomized controlled trial to examine the effects of time- and location-specific, distance-based road pricing on travel behavior and driving externalities. Using financial incentives and a smartphone app that automatically tracks participants' travel behavior across different modes, we find that road pricing reduces driving externalities by 5.3%, implying a price elasticity of -0.07 to -0.15 for the external costs of driving. Our findings suggest that drivers of battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) are much less responsive to road pricing than drivers of non-BEVs. Furthermore, we find that providing information on the expected benefits of road pricing enhances public support for such policies, whereas experience with road pricing has little impact.

Keywords: road pricing; public support; electric vehicles; driving externalities; field experiment; information provision. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 D83 H23 Q54 R41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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