The Impact of Evidence on Transport Policy-Making: The Case of Road Construction

Francis Terry

Public Money & Management, 1999, vol. 19, issue 1, 41-46

Abstract: For many years, lack of consensus about the goals of transport policy resulted in evidence being used selectively to justify particular policies—rather than to establish whether (when judged against suitable criteria) the policies were actually working. Forecasts of traffic growth were taken as evidence of the need for road construction programmes; now, the phenomenon of ‘induced traffic’ has led to a re-think, and a more evidence-based approach to transport policy.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1111/1467-9302.00151

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