Multi-stakeholder acceptance of optimum toll schemes

Abstract

Stakeholder acceptance of any transport policy is crucial for its successful implementation and sustainability. Many initiatives have failed in the past mostly due to stakeholder non-acceptability. As a result, the multi-stakeholder approach towards solving transportation problems is essential for sustainable transportation in the future. This study is focused on how different toll charging policies are perceived by various stakeholders and their level of acceptability. Various toll charging policies are considered where each toll scheme is optimizing at least one of the multi-stakeholder objectives such as user cost, social cost, environmental cost or the rate of return for investment. In a..