Print Email Facebook Twitter The association between news and attitudes towards a Dutch road pricing proposal Title The association between news and attitudes towards a Dutch road pricing proposal Author Ardıç, Özgül Annema, J.A. (TU Delft Transport and Logistics) Molin, E.J.E. (TU Delft Transport and Logistics) van Wee, G.P. (TU Delft Transport and Logistics) Date 2016 Abstract This study investigates the association between news exposure and attitudes/beliefs about a Dutch road pricing proposal (Kilometerheffing) with individual level data. We have combined the data from a public attitude survey (N = 705) with a content analysis of 280 news articles on the pricing proposal published in five leading Dutch newspapers. Our findings show that news exposure and attitudes/beliefs about road pricing policies are associated not only at the aggregate level, as shown by past research, but also at the individual level. The direction of attitudes/beliefs and tone of news change in the same direction (e.g., the higher the amount of negative news exposed, the more negative the attitudes towards Kilometerheffing). Our findings also show that the significance and direction of association (in parallel with or opposite to the tone of news—negative or positive) changes according to the issue featured in the news and the strength of the individual’s values. News exposure is not associated with beliefs about the impact of Kilometerheffing on one’s own financial situation but rather with beliefs about the impact of Kilometerheffing on the environment and congestion. Furthermore, the strength of the biospheric value (which concerns the quality of nature and environment) negatively moderates the relationship between news exposure and beliefs about the impact of Kilometerheffing on environment-congestion. Subject AttitudesBeliefsMediaNewsRoad pricingValues To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0439570d-3e70-4d99-9530-1ccb11cef30c DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-016-9752-0 Embargo date 2017-12-07 ISSN 0049-4488 Source Transportation, 1-22 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2016 Özgül Ardıç, J.A. Annema, E.J.E. Molin, G.P. van Wee Files PDF Tr_EC_14_055_accepted_man ... ._2016.pdf 949.76 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:0439570d-3e70-4d99-9530-1ccb11cef30c/datastream/OBJ/view