Attitudes to traffic-related issues in urban areas of the UK and the role of workplace parking charges |
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| Institution: | 1. Transport Studies Group, Department of Civil and Building Engineering, Loughborough University, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, UK;2. Ashcroft International Business School, Anglia Polytechnic University, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT, UK;1. Children''s Health Services Research, Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana;2. Regenstrief Institute, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana;3. Indiana University School of Nursing, Indianapolis, Indiana;4. Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana;5. Department of Psychiatry, Stroger Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, Illinois;6. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland;1. State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control (SKLESPC), School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China;2. Center for Energy & Environmental policy research, Beijing Institute of Technology, China;3. College of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Aeronautics And Astronautics, Nanjing, China;1. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Safe Kids Japan, Japan;2. Tokyo Institute of Technology, Safe Kids Japan, Japan;3. Ryokuen Children’s Clinic, Safe Kids Japan, Japan;1. School of Public Affairs, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA;2. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA;1. Civil Engineering Department, An-Najah National University, P.O. Box 7, Nablus, Palestine;2. Traffic Higher Council, Ministry of Transport, Ramallah, Palestine |
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| Abstract: | In the UK the Government currently perceives a levy on workplace parking to be a key ingredient of a package of measures designed to deal with congestion and traffic-related pollution in urban areas. Clearly a number of issues will require careful consideration before such a levy can be successfully introduced. This paper presents a summary of the findings of a national survey undertaken with respect to workplace parking charges. How seriously do the decision-makers and opinion formers perceive traffic-related issues (and in particular the health effects of road traffic) to be in the urban areas of the UK? and, how effective and acceptable is a levy on workplace parking likely to be when compared with other policy options as a means of dealing with traffic-related pollution? Ring fencing the revenue raised from workplace parking charge would appear to be an important issue, alongside the allocation of that revenue as a means of increasing acceptance. The paper considers the size of the levy to be charged in order to achieve a significant reduction in current workplace parking provision, and the case for exempting certain categories of user. |
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