Implementable Strategies for Shifting to Direct Usage-Based Charges for Transportation Funding

This report presents an analysis of ways that direct charges to road users, based on vehicle-miles of travel (VMT), could be implemented within approximately the next 5 years. VMT fees are possibly an alternative or supplement to fuel taxes that for many decades have been a principal mechanism for funding the transportation system. This document describes trends in fuel-tax revenue and VMT growth that suggest the motivation for considering such fees, and then describes how currently available technology and administrative structures might be used to implement direct usage-based charges. The analysis is informed by recent trials conducted by several states. The information will be useful to national- and state-level policy makers and to government officials and others who may be engaged in evaluating, designing, and implementing such direct usage-based charges.

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• Authors:
  • Sorensen, Paul A
  • Ecola, Liisa
  • Wachs, Martin
  • Donath, Max
  • Munnich Jr, Lee W
  • Serian, Betty
• Publication Date: 2009

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Edition: Contractor Final Report
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 150p
• Serial:
  • NCHRP Web-Only Document
  • Issue Number: 143
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Administration; Financing; Fuel taxes; Highways; Implementation; Policy making; Strategic planning; Technology; Trend (Statistics); User charges; Vehicle miles of travel
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01141657
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780309435765
• Report/Paper Numbers: NCHRP Project 20-24(69)
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Oct 6 2009 4:33PM