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Bumpy Designs: Impact of Privacy and Technology Costs on Support for Road Mileage User Fees

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  • Denvil Duncan
  • Venkata Nadella
  • Ashley Bowers
  • Stacey Giroux
  • John D. Graham

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The mileage user fee is a promising alternative to the fuel tax but public opposition is a barrier to implementation. We use a nationally representative survey with an embedded experimental design to determine the extent to which technology costs and perceived invasion of privacy infuence public opinion regarding the adoption of mileage user fees. We fnd that the ratio of opponents to supporters is about four to one, and that public opposition can be attenuated by insulating motorists from a new one-time cost for GPS technology to measure mileage, and by providing safeguards that eliminate or minimize perceived invasions of privacy.

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  • Denvil Duncan & Venkata Nadella & Ashley Bowers & Stacey Giroux & John D. Graham, 2014. "Bumpy Designs: Impact of Privacy and Technology Costs on Support for Road Mileage User Fees," National Tax Journal, National Tax Association;National Tax Journal, vol. 67(3), pages 505-530, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:ntj:journl:v:67:y:2014:i:3:p:505-530
    DOI: 10.17310/ntj.2014.3.01
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    1. Duncan, Denvil & Nadella, Venkata & Giroux, Stacey & Bowers, Ashley & Graham, John D., 2017. "The road mileage user-fee: Level, intensity, and predictors of public support," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 53(C), pages 70-78.
    2. Duncan, Denvil & Li, Danyang & Graham, John D., 2020. "Tax rate design and support for mileage user-fees," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 93(C), pages 17-26.
    3. Denvil Duncan & Danyang Li, 2018. "Liar Liar: Experimental Evidence of the Effect of Confirmation‐Reports on Dishonesty," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 84(3), pages 742-770, January.

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