Public attitudes to congestion and road pricing
Introduction
This report provides information on people's experiences of road congestion and their attitudes towards alternative ways of charging for road use. The report focuses on the latest survey results from a module of questions included in the Office for National Statistics Omnibus Survey in October and November 2006 and January 2007.
The report covers the following issues:
- the type of journeys people make most frequently and the extent to which road congestion is experienced on these journeys;
- whether people consider road congestion to be a serious problem that the Government should tackle;
- levels of support for some form of road pricing and how this varies under different conditions;
- perceptions of the likely effectiveness, fairness and accuracy of a road pricing system;
- views on how data necessary to enforce any road pricing scheme should be collected and held;
- the impact that the introduction of such a scheme is likely to have on individual behaviour.
Publication details
Published on 25 October 2007 by Transport Statistics
E-mail attitudes.stats@dft.gsi.gov.uk for queries concerning this report
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