The Highway Funding Formula: History and Current Status Under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act

This report first describes the origins and development of highway formula funding and then discusses how the use of various formula factors gave way to the current apportionment mechanism. A series of tables compares individual states’ shares of the FY2023 apportionment with their shares of some factors relevant to highway needs: population, land area, highway lane miles, and vehicle miles traveled (VMT).

• Record URL:
  • https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R47922
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This report is updated periodically while the text remains available at the URL indicated above. The actual date of publication, pagination, and other features may differ from that indicated in this record.
• Corporate Authors:

  Congressional Research Service

  Washington, DC  United States 
• Authors:
  • Mallett, William J
• Publication Date: 2024-2-15

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Version 2
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: 24p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Financing; Highways; History; Policy; States
• Identifier Terms: Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01909715
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: R47922
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 26 2024 8:51AM