A Funding Compromise Can Set Transportation on Path Toward Sustainability: A White Paper from the National Center for Sustainable Transportation

Against the backdrop of continuing uncertainty around Congressional passage of a new federal transportation bill, a number of proposals have been circulated in the past year to address aspects of securing or reforming state and federal transportation funding. This white paper assembles the most prominent of these proposals and reviews them in the context of sustainable transportation, in particular, these three dimensions: funding sustainability, environmental sustainability, and social justice. The result of this review is a set of funding recommendations that borrow individual features from many of the publicly disseminated proposals. The funding recommendations include a one-time use of corporate taxes, the federal gas tax, greenhouse gas reduction targets, state initiated vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax, state pricing and tolling authority, state responsibility for roads, and an earned income transportation tax credit.

• Record URL:
  http://ncst.ucdavis.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/07-14-2015-NCST-Transportation-Funding-Niemeier-FINALv2.pdf
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This document was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program.
• Corporate Authors:

  University of California, Davis

  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, One Shields Avenue
  Davis, CA  United States  95616

  University of California, Davis

  Institute of Transportation Studies
  Davis, CA  United States  95616

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 

  Research and Innovative Technology Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Niemeier, Deb
• Publication Date: 2015-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References;
• Pagination: 19p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Equity; Financing; Greenhouse gases; Highways; Recommendations; Road pricing; Sustainable transportation; Taxes
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01574031
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: UTC, TRIS, RITA, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Aug 27 2015 11:28AM