The i-Prism project will gain insights into some key aspects of innovative transport pricing through multidisciplinary academic research that focuses both on identifying and understanding relevant behaviour, mechanisms and interactions; and on deriving policy implications from this. These key aspects include:
• Implementation issues
• Interactions between transport and its (urban) surroundings
• Interactions between transport pricing and other policy instruments
• Institutional and governance aspects
• Behavioural responses (from individual road users, but also from governments and other stakeholders)
• Acceptability of transport pricing policies
The project consists of four interlinked research projects, each based in a different discipline:
1. Implementation of transport pricing: an economic perspective (VU)
2. Transport pricing: a multi-modal dynamic network perspective (TUD-T&P)
3. Acceptability of transport pricing: a psychological perspective (RuG)
4. Implementation of transport pricing: vehicle technology, governance, and institutional transition (TU-TBM)
Five multidisciplinary sub-studies will be carried out in the project:
A. Multi-modal networks (TUD-T&P, VU)
B. Multiple operators: multiple governments and private operators (VU, TUD-T&P, RuG, TUD-TBM)
C. Institutional acceptability and transition (TUD-TBM, RuG)
D. Spatial markets (VU, TUD-T&P)
E. Behavioural effects and acceptability in pricing experiments (RuG, VU, TUD-T&P, TUD-TBM)
The table below provides an overview of the interrelations between these sub-projects (in columns) and identifies the multidisciplinary sub-studies (in rows) that will be carried out in the project. Apart from these, each sub-project will also entail at least one monodisciplinary sub-study.
1. VU | 2. TUD-T&P | 3. RuG | 4. TUD-TBM | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Monodisciplinary studies | x | x | x | x |
Multidisciplinary Studies | ||||
A. Multi-modal networks | x | x | ||
B. Multiple operators: multiple governments
| x | x | x | x |
C. Institutional acceptability and transition | x | x | ||
D. Spatial markets | x | x | ||
E. Behavioural effects and acceptability
in pricing experiments | x | x | x | x |
Four interlinked research projects
Multidisciplinary studies