Has the Dutch news media acted as a policy actor in the road pricing policy debate?

2013 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 47-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Özgül Ardıç ◽  
Jan Anne Annema ◽  
Bert van Wee
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Road Pricing ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
Pricing Policy ◽  
Policy Actor ◽  
The Road

scholarly journals Exploring Driver’s Response to Variable Road Pricing (VRP) Scheme: An Insight into Policy Implementation in Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-438
Author(s):  
Yos Sunitiyoso ◽  
Fikri Hadiansyah ◽  
Shimaditya Nuraeni ◽  
Mila Jamila Khatun Badriyah
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Road Pricing ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Cognitive Responses ◽  
Driver Behaviour ◽  
Pricing Policy ◽  
The Road ◽  
Pricing Scheme ◽  
The Government

In the last few decades, road pricing scheme have been known to hold a central role in actualizing sustainable and integrated transport systems. Road pricing has been implemented in various forms and price structures in many cities in the world. Although the road pricing and price structures were generally designed based on the rational actor approach, some studies provided evidences that, in reality, drivers have bounded rationality. It can be argued that limited cognitive ability of drivers gave significant effect towards their decision. In developing countries like Indonesia, road pricing seems to be an alternative solution for traffic congestion problems. This research aims to explore the cognitive responses of drivers, particularly on their ways of making decision and learning, to complexity and variability of road pricing, and also to give valuable contribution to the government on making policy towards traffic issues. The initial results indicate that policy makers in Indonesia need to consider how drivers behave in response to road pricing scheme before implementing any road pricing policy. Moreover, multiple factors from the point of view of drivers (travel time, safety, comfort, etc.) should be taken into consideration as integral parts of the road pricing scheme design. Keywords:  driver behaviour, experiment, road pricing, road pricing policy

scholarly journals A comparison of stakeholder networks across two pricing policy debates using discourse analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
S Hilton ◽  
C Buckton ◽  
G Fergie ◽  
T Henrichsen ◽  
P Leifeld
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
News Media ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Pricing Policy ◽  
Network Analyses ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Similar Range ◽  
Unit Pricing ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Discourse Coalitions

Abstract Background Public health policy development is subject to a large number of stakeholders seeking to influence government thinking on policy options. One approach is via the news media. We compare the competing discourse coalitions evident in the UK public debate across two pricing policies, Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) for alcohol and the Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL). Methods Existing discourse network analyses (DNA) for MUP and SDIL were harmonised in Visone to allow direct comparison. We applied a common tie-weight threshold to reduce ties to robust argumentative similarities and to maximise the identification of both network structures. We used network measures (size, density and EI index) to compare the two networks and principal coalitions. Results Both networks involve a similar range of stakeholder types and form two discourse coalitions representing proponents and opponents of the policies. The SDIL network is larger, particularly the proponents coalition with over three times as many nodes and a lower EI index. Both networks show tight discourse coalitions of manufactures and commercial analysts acting in opposition to policy supporters. The only actors that appear in both debates are politicians, government advisors, commercial analysts and supermarkets. While public health actors appear in both debates they appear siloed in their interests. Conclusions DNA enabled direct comparison of the discourse coalitions across two highly contested pricing policy debates, visualising the complex network of actors and relationships operating to influence policy-making via the media. Use of comparative DNA across policy debates shows promise for better understanding the common tactics of different unhealthy commodity industries (UCIs) to disrupt public health policies. Public health actors could improve their response to UCIs by seeking to work across policy and commodity arenas. Key messages We compared the competing discourse coalitions across two pricing policy debates, MUP and SDIL. Public health advocates could improve their response by working across policy arenas.

Airport Congestion When Carriers Have Market Power

2002 ◽  
Vol 92 (5) ◽  
pp. 1357-1375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan K Brueckner
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Market Power ◽  
Congestion Pricing ◽  
Road Pricing ◽  
Cournot Oligopoly ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
The Road ◽  
Airport Congestion

This paper analyzes airport congestion when carriers are nonatomistic, showing how the results of the road-pricing literature are modified when the economic agents causing congestion have market power. The analysis shows that when an airport is dominated by a monopolist, congestion is fully internalized, yielding no role for congestion pricing under monopoly conditions. Under a Cournot oligopoly, however, carriers are shown to internalize only the congestion they impose on themselves. A toll that captures the uninternalized portion of congestion may then improve the allocation of traffic. The analysis is supported by some rudimentary empirical evidence.

Optimal Toll Design Problem in Dynamic Traffic Networks with Joint Route and Departure Time Choice

2005 ◽  
Vol 1923 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dusica Joksimovic ◽  
Michiel C. J. Bliemer ◽  
Piet H. L. Bovy
Keyword(s):  
Travel Behavior ◽  
Dynamic Pricing ◽  
Design Problem ◽  
Road Pricing ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Time Varying ◽  
Dynamic Traffic ◽  
The Road ◽  
Departure Time ◽  
Departure Time Choice

Road pricing is one of the market-based traffic control measures that can influence travel behavior to alleviate congestion on roads. This paper addresses the effects of uniform (constant, fixed) and time-varying (step) tolls on the travel behavior of users on the road network. The problem of determining optimal prices in a dynamic traffic network is considered by applying second-best tolling scenarios imposing tolls only to a subset of links on the network and considering elastic demand. The optimal toll design problem is formulated as a bilevel optimization problem with the road authority (on the upper level) setting the tolls and the travelers (on the lower level) who respond by changing their travel decisions (route and departure time choice). To formulate the optimal toll design problem, the so-called mathematical program with equilibrium constraints (MPEC) formulation was used, considering the dynamic nature of traffic flows on the one hand and dynamic pricing on the other. Until now, the MPEC formulation has been applied in static cases only. The model structure comprises three interrelated levels: (a) dynamic network loading, (b) route choice and departure time choice, and (c) road pricing level. For solving the optimal toll design problem in dynamic networks, a simple search algorithm is used to determine the optimal toll pattern leading to optimization of the objective function of the road authority subject to dynamic traffic assignment constraints. Nevertheless, uniform and time-varying pricing is analyzed, and a small hypothetical network is considered.

A MAY TO REMEMBER

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Otto Santa Ana ◽  
Sandra L. Treviño ◽  
Michael J. Bailey ◽  
Kristen Bodossian ◽  
Antonio de Necochea
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
News Media ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Print News ◽  
Cognitive Metaphor ◽  
Metaphor Theory ◽  
May Day ◽  
The Media

AbstractWe examine mainstream U.S. print news depictions of the 2006 immigration policy debate. Using critical discourse analysis informed by cognitive metaphor theory, we analyze a substantial sample of mainstream U.S. print news reports in May 2006, at the height of national attention on the “Great May Day” demonstrations across the country. We compare it to a second sample of print news media articles from October 2006, at the time of the passage of the 2006 Secure Fence Act. Mainstream print media represented immigrants with a noteworthy balance between human and nonhuman language during the time of the Great May Day marches. However, the media did not sustain a balanced representation of immigrants in the ensuing months. The conceptual metaphor immigrant as criminal is predominant during both periods. We explore the implication of the language used to frame the immigration policy debate.

Trial-and-Error Procedure for Implementing a Road-Pricing Scheme

2005 ◽  
Vol 1923 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiang Meng ◽  
Wei Xu ◽  
Hai Yang
Keyword(s):  
Travel Time ◽  
Assignment Problem ◽  
Traffic Assignment ◽  
Road Pricing ◽  
User Equilibrium ◽  
Trial And Error ◽  
Traffic Flows ◽  
The Road ◽  
Traffic Assignment Problem ◽  
Pricing Scheme

This paper deals with a road-pricing scheme that aims at alleviating congestion phenomena or air and noise pollution in some areas of a transportation network in such a way that the volumes of traffic flow on entry links to these areas do not exceed their respective predetermined thresholds by levying appropriate tolls at these links. This paper begins to show that the road-pricing scheme is equivalent to a problem that determines optimal Lagrangian multipliers for a user equilibrium traffic assignment problem with link capacity constraints. It then proceeds to devise a novel trial-and-error procedure requiring observed traffic flows at the entry links only, to identify a solution for the road-pricing scheme when link travel time functions, origin–destination demand functions, and users’ value of travel time are unknown. The procedure is as follows. A trial on a set of given tolls is conducted, and then the resultant link flows are observed. According to these observed traffic flows, a new set of tolls for the next trial is adjusted by executing a simple projection operation. The trial-and-error procedure is, in fact, a variation of a gradient projection method for dual formulation of the traffic assignment problem, and its convergence can be guaranteed under mild conditions. Accordingly, a conjecture for the convergence of trial-and-error implementation of the congestion pricing proposed by economists is rigorously proved. Furthermore, the iterative procedure presented in this paper in practice can facilitate the estimation of such tolls by land transport authorities.

Hutton and Butler

2004 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Weapons Of Mass Destruction ◽  
Hard Copy ◽  
Mass Destruction ◽  
The Road ◽  
Distinguished Group

These chapters offer penetrating insights into the events and controversies that have dominated the news agenda for the last two years. Never has the path to a British war been mapped so fully and swiftly as the road to Baghdad in 2002–3. Between them, the Hutton and Butler reports lifted the lid on the most intimate workings of government and those who strive to convert information into a weapon — whether they be a Prime Minister in Downing Street, an MI6 agent in the field, an intelligence analyst in Whitehall, or a journalist attempting to fuse fragments into hard copy. Within days of Lord Butler reporting on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, on British intelligence assessments of their quantity and lethality and on the ingredients of the Blair Cabinet's decision to go to war, the British Academy brought together a distinguished group of scholars and practitioners to probe the deeper themes at play in the rush of events and inquests. The chapters examine: the legal issues raised by the manner and content of Lord Hutton's inquiry; the light both Hutton and Butler shed on the Blair style of government; and the matter of trust between government, the governed and the news media.

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