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ORGANIZER:UCL Centre for Transport Studies
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DESCRIPTION:In this seminar\, we investigate which variables affect people'
 s reaction to urban pricing schemes in Spain. Most of works in this topic d
 iscover that the essential causes are not socioeconomic variables but the p
 erceptions\, attitudes and beliefs of respondents. In order to measure thes
 e concepts\, a Likert scale questionnaire was undertaken in a survey of 83 
 individuals grouping 19 items into seven categories: sensitivity towards en
 vironmental problems\; responsibility\; style of life favourable to cars\; 
 perception of transport problems\; sensation of freedom restriction\; inequ
 ality and personal gains\, reserving an item\, as a dependent variable\, fo
 r acceptance. This questionnaire\, along with the qualitative analysis from
  a previous focus group\, shows the important differences between drivers a
 nd non drivers and the general strong public rejection. This belief comes a
 long with the perception of the effectiveness of such a measure.
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\nAmong
  the explanation factors two ideas emerge: individuals are concerned about 
 distributional aspects of pricing\, not only in terms of income but in term
 s of use of space (it is considered a privilege for city centre's residents
 )\; secondly\, and most important\, there is a strong fear of lack of trans
 parency in managing revenues (i.e. corruption) or mismanagement of the whol
 e system. 
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\nThe methodology uses qualitative analysis from focus group 
 and employs frequencies of opinions previously categorized into different g
 roups- as an input for a regression model that was run using path analysis.
 
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SUMMARY:Determining congestion charging acceptability in Spain
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LOCATION:University College London Chadwick Building Room 218 (second floor
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