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From National Transport Policies to Regional and Local Implementation—Incentive Schemes for Sustainable Mobility

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 3999

Special Issue Editors

Department of Technology and Society, Faculty of Engineering, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
Interests: transport systems; transport planning; sustainable urban mobility; public transport; accessibility; transport equity; vulnerable road users; ageing, disability and mobility
Department of Technology and Society, Faculty of Engineering, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
Interests: transport planning; sustainable urban mobility; public transport; accessibility; vulnerable road users; ageing and mobility
Department of Technology and Society, Faculty of Engineering, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
Interests: transport planning; sustainable urban mobility; public transport; accessibility; ageing and mobility

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are organizing a Special Issue on incentive schemes for sustainable mobility for the journal Sustainability. The venue is a peer-reviewed open-access journal that publishes articles and communications in the interdisciplinary area of sustainability. For detailed information on the journal, we refer you to https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability.

In order to achieve desired objectives as expressed in sustainable transport plans at regional and local level, financial and fiscal incentives administered from national to local levels could serve as important policy instruments. The Urban Environment Agreements in some Scandinavian countries are examples of such incentives. Other examples are performance-based incentive subsidy schemes for public transport, tax incentives for sustainable transport, local sustainable transport funds or co-financing of pilot and innovation projects in cities and regions, e.g., through Interreg or Civitas programs.

However, such incentives may produce unexpected results and inefficient spending. Sometimes, incentives are too weak to effectively steer towards desired outcomes. In other cases, strategic pricing could be more efficient than heavy investments. In order to achieve modal change from private car to active and public transport, the combination or even packaging of measures and policy instruments as seen as crucial in order to induce sustainable urban mobility. It is therefore imperative to be able to single out and better assess the impacts of national transport and land use policy instruments, before as well as after implementation, in order to adjust and fine-tune them according to the local context.

In this Special Issue, we are welcoming both theoretical contributions and empirical case studies that target issues of incentive schemes and policy instruments for sustainable transport development in cities and urban regions. How can they be understood, modeled or evaluated? Do we have evidence, showing that such policy instruments in fact may change travel behavior and mode choice in ways that could help to fulfil long-term sustainable development goals? If so, please share your experience and findings with us. We welcome systematic reviews, meta-analyses, conceptual papers, experimental studies, empirical cases, and surveys based on quantitative as well as qualitative approaches. If you are uncertain about whether your paper fits into the scope of this Special Issue, please contact the Guest Editors.

Examples of specific perspectives are:

  • Impacts of co-funding programs
  • Political economy aspects of co-funding
  • Incentives for better public transport performance
  • Public transport pricing policies
  • Private cars: congestion charging, parking policies
  • Schemes for behavioral change
  • Incentives, social impacts, and inequalities
  • Decision making and participation
  • Models and tools for analyses and decision making

Assoc. Pro Anders Wretstrand
Dr. Helena Svensson
Dr. Jean Ryan
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • co-funding
  • political economy
  • incentives
  • public transport
  • pricing policies
  • travel behavior
  • congestion charging
  • parking
  • transport equity
  • governance
  • decision support
  • sustainable mobility
  • policy package

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Early Bird Scheme for Parking Management: How Does Parking Play a Role in the Morning Commute Problem
by Zipeng Zhang and Ning Zhang
Sustainability 2021, 13(15), 8531; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13158531 - 30 Jul 2021
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This paper extended the Vickrey’s point-queue model to study the early bird parking mechanism during morning commute peak hours. We not only investigated how commuters choose departure times in view of morning commute traffic congestion and the discounted early bird parking fee, but [...] Read more.
This paper extended the Vickrey’s point-queue model to study the early bird parking mechanism during morning commute peak hours. We not only investigated how commuters choose departure times in view of morning commute traffic congestion and the discounted early bird parking fee, but also analyzed the conditions which are determined for the existence of the user equilibrium in the analysis model provided in this paper. Moreover, the tendency of the total queuing time and the incremental parking pricing revenue was derived along with the different choice strategy between early bird parkers (ERPs) and regular parkers (RPs). The results showed that the number of commuters was jointly determined by the desired time and the bottleneck capacity for different schedules. Additionally, the method of fare incentive showed a better effect on reducing queue than the initial no-incentive method with the instantaneous travel demand. Most importantly, the incremental parking revenue can be increased by properly adjusting the parking pricing gap between ERPs and RPs. Our research not only provided several important propositions for the early bird parking mechanism but also included the optimal solutions for optimal parking pricing and schedule gap in two groups of parkers. This work is expected to promote the development of early bird parking to mitigate morning commute traffic congestion and motivate the related research of schedule coordination for regulating parking choice behavior in morning peak hours. Full article
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Better Enforcement Is Essential, but May Be Inadequate: Findings of a Survey on the Factors Affecting Payment of Speeding Fines in Cape Town, South Africa
by Jason Bantjes, Sophia du Plessis, Ada Jansen and Krige Siebrits
Sustainability 2021, 13(9), 5028; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13095028 - 30 Apr 2021
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While a large body of research has established that effective enforcement of speeding laws is essential for reducing the economic and social costs of road accidents, some studies have suggested that interventions aimed at moral beliefs about speeding and peer-related and other social [...] Read more.
While a large body of research has established that effective enforcement of speeding laws is essential for reducing the economic and social costs of road accidents, some studies have suggested that interventions aimed at moral beliefs about speeding and peer-related and other social contagion effects may be important complements to law enforcement activities. This article presents tentative evidence of the complementary nature of interventions to influence moral beliefs and steps to strengthen the enforcement of traffic laws. It does this by presenting and discussing the results of a survey that elicited information about the attitudes of motorists in Cape Town regarding speeding fines and aspects of the administration of traffic laws in South Africa. The self-reported fine-paying behaviour of the respondents correlates with instrumental factors shaped by the effectiveness of enforcement actions (e.g., compliance and monetary costs) as well as normative factors influenced by the moral beliefs of drivers and their social groups as well as the perceived legitimacy of traffic laws and officials. Regression results also provide evidence of a statistically significant relationship between the respondents’ self-reported fine-paying behaviour and their moral beliefs regarding payment of speeding fines. Full article
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