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Education as a Key Factor in Policy Support: An Evaluation of National Mileage Fee Support as It Varies with Information and Attitudes [supporting dataset]

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  • Alternative Title:
    National Mileage Fee Survey
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    NCST-UVM-RR-24-06
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    Dataset
  • Geographical Coverage:
    United States;Vermont
  • Corporate Publisher:
    National Center for Sustainable Transportation (NCST) (UTC)
  • Abstract:
    As governing bodies continue to explore mileage fees as an alternative to the gas tax, the uncertainty surrounding public support remains a critical barrier to policy uptake. This study examines the extent to which public perceptions of mileage fees are guided by misinformation or lack of information using a national, internet-based survey. Hypothetical voting opportunities were used to gather respondent support for mileage fees, coupled with educational treatments that address mileage fee fairness, privacy, and costs. The findings indicate that respondents are largely misinformed or lack information about mileage fees and the gas tax. Pre-education, only 32% of respondents supported the policy, but post-education, 46% of respondents supported the policy. Through binomial, multinomial, and fixed effect modeling, we examined the factors associated with policy support, changes in policy support, and the educational treatments. Ultimately, our findings indicate that education can play a key role in increasing support for a mileage fee policy as an alternative to the gas tax.

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    National Transportation Library (NTL) Curation Note: As this dataset is preserved in a repository outside U.S. DOT control, as allowed by the U.S. DOT’s Public Access Plan (https://doi.org/10.21949/1503647) Section 7.4.2 Data, the NTL staff has performed NO additional curation actions on this dataset. This dataset has been curated to CoreTrustSeal's curation level "C. Initial Curation." To find out more information on CoreTrustSeal's curation levels, please consult their "Curation & Preservation Levels" CoreTrustSeal Discussion Paper" (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8083359). NTL staff last accessed this dataset at its repository URL on 2024-03-29. If, in the future, you have trouble accessing this dataset at the host repository, please email NTLDataCurator@dot.gov describing your problem. NTL staff will do its best to assist you at that time.
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    69A3551747114
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