ABSTRACT
This chapter finds patterns in the use of the indirect-effect strategy, to discover how its use affects the acceptability of urban road pricing. It considers the implications of the direct-effect and indirect-effect strategies. The chapter suggests how road pricing can be designed around the theoretically acceptable arguments. It discovers a pattern in the use of the indirect-effect strategy that appears to be acceptable amongst all the interview data. Furthermore there is no evidence in the data that adequate compensatory arrangements could be arranged: some people would prefer to drive than be compensated. From the sociological and theoretical perspective that has been adopted here, a decision about the theoretical acceptability of using rationing with compensation has to be made with no assumptions. In developing the theory all assumptions and theoretical prejudices – of other people and the analyst – had to be accounted for. The grounded theory of acceptability is grounded in the arguments about urban road pricing.
