ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the incremental approach to decision-making in terms of road user charging, drawing as far as possible, on a number of the issues raised in the literature review, the United Kingdom national survey results, evidence from congestion metering in the city of Cambridge and the successful implementation of congestion charging in Central London. It describes a number of the potential limitations that can be levelled at the incremental approach. There has been an incremental approach to decision making it being reinforced in terms of: the test of a good policy is agreement on the policy itself; the need for fundamental agreement on potentially disruptive issues, limits the policy debate to relatively small differences in policy; policy is made and re-made endlessly, proceeding through a series of incremental changes avoiding serious mistakes; the choice of means and ends is made simultaneously.
