Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/320088 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 11867
Publisher: 
CESifo GmbH, Munich
Abstract: 
We conduct a large-scale randomized controlled trial to examine the effects of time- and location-specific, distance-based road pricing on travel behavior and driving externalities. Using financial incentives and a smartphone app that automatically tracks participants' travel behavior across different modes, we find that road pricing reduces driving externalities by 5.3%, implying a price elasticity of -0.07 to -0.15 for the external costs of driving. Our findings suggest that drivers of battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) are much less responsive to road pricing than drivers of non-BEVs. Furthermore, we find that providing information on the expected benefits of road pricing enhances public support for such policies, whereas experience with road pricing has little impact.
Subjects: 
road pricing
public support
electric vehicles
driving externalities
field experiment
information provision.
JEL: 
H23
R41
D83
C93
Q54
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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