ROAD-USER COSTS: REPORT ON EXPLORATORY RESEARCH

The Roads and Transportation Association of Canada (RTAC) estimates there is a $1.8 billion gap between the amount spent on roads and the amount required to maintain them. This concern over funding raises the issue of who should pay for the roads, or what is the relationship between road-user costs and road-user taxes. These concerns over road financing and road-user taxes precipitated the research which is summarized in this report. The purpose was to explore the feasibility of conducting a cost-allocation study using new RTAC road-cost data, current estimates of fleet characteristics, and a methodology similar to that employed by Haritos in 1973--the last major attempt to calculate costs on a national basis. This is an exploratory effort; the intent is to see how far it is possible to go with new data and to discover what problems and/or issues might arise in the conduct of a full-scale cost-allocation study.

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Authors:
- Nix, F P
Publication Date: 1989

Media Info

Features: References; Tables;
Pagination: p. 18-27
Serial:
- Journal of the Transportation Research Forum
- Volume: 30
- Issue Number: 1
- Publisher: Transportation Research Forum
- ISSN: 1046-1469
- Serial URL: https://trforum.org/journal-of-the-trf/
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Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

TRT Terms: Cost allocation; Costs; Data analysis; Highways; Maintenance management; Mathematical analysis; Research; Taxation; Travel budgets
Uncontrolled Terms: Fund allocations; Maintenance costs; Road user costs
Geographic Terms: Canada
Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Research; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

Accession Number: 00490250
Record Type: Publication
Files: TRIS
Created Date: Dec 31 1989 12:00AM