User Fees in the News
05.29.09 The Newshour with Jim Lehrer: States experiment with taxes to pay for highways. Special correspondent Lee Hochberg reports from Oregon, where officials are looking into charging drivers a tax based on the number of miles they drive in lieu of a highly-debated gas tax. Includes interviews with DAVE THOMPSON and JAMES WHITTY of the Oregon DOT.
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Mileage Fee and Transportation Finance Studies
- Bipartisan Policy Center, Performance Driven: A New Vision for U.S. Transportation Policy, June 9, 2009
- Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute, University of Minnesota, Technology Enabling Near-Term Nationwide Implementation of Distance Based Road User Fees, June 2009
[PDF, 2.5M] Oregon Mileage Fee Concept and Road User Fee Pilot Program, November 2007- Puget Sound Regional Council Traffic Choices Study, April 2008
- Iowa Mileage-Based Road User Charge Study, underway through 2010
- University Transportation Center for Mobility Study of Mileage-Based User Fees, October 2008
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[PDF, 274K] Minnesota Department of Transportation Mileage-based User Fee Public Opinion Study, August 2007
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[PDF, 1.8M] Oregon Department of Transportation publication: "Discerning the Pathway to Implementation of a National Mileage-Based Charging System", March 2009
- University of Minnesota, Center for Transportation Studies: "Near-Term-Implementable Mechanisms for Collecting Road User Charges Based on Vehicle-Miles Traveled", February 2009 (ongoing research)
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[PDF, 1.1M] Transportation Research Board Fuel Tax Study, 2006
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[PDF, 4.5M] National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission Report: "Paying Our Way: A New Framework for Transportation Finance", February 2009
- National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission Report: "Transportation for Tomorrow", December 2007
- A Guide to Transportation Funding Options (University Transportation Center for Mobility)
Other Resources
- National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission
- National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Commission
- Transportation Research Board, Congestion Pricing Committee
- Federal Highway Administration Value Pricing Program
- German Truck Toll System (Toll Collect)
- North East Texas Regional Mobility Authority
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