Alternative Approaches To Funding Highways
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Alternative Approaches To Funding Highways
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language : en
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
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Alternative Approaches To Funding Highways
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Author : Perry Beider
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Alternative Approaches To Funding Highways written by Perry Beider and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Federal aid to transportation categories.
This study examines broad alternatives for federal funding of highways, focusing on fuel taxes and on taxes that could be assessed on the basis of the number of miles that vehicles travel. Approaches to funding highways can be evaluated in terms of equity and economic efficiency. Equity, or fairness, is subjective and can be assessed in several ways. Observers of highway funding often gauge fairness by considering the share of funding that is obtained from taxes paid by highway users rather than from general taxpayer funds, from people in households that fall into various income categories, or from people in rural versus urban households. The economic efficiency of a funding approach depends partly on its effects on users' travel behavior and partly on what it costs to implement. Charging users for the costs their travel imposes on society would create incentives for people to limit highway use to trips for which the benefits exceed the costs, thus reducing or eliminating overuse of highways and helping identify the economic value of investments in highways. However, the costs of collecting and enforcing such user charges also must be considered in evaluating their net effect on efficiency.
Report Of The Committee To Study Alternative Methods Of Financing And Funding For The Department Of Highways And Public Transportation
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Author : South Carolina. General Assembly. Committee to Study Alternative Methods of Financing and Funding for the Department of Highways and Public Transportation
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Report Of The Committee To Study Alternative Methods Of Financing And Funding For The Department Of Highways And Public Transportation written by South Carolina. General Assembly. Committee to Study Alternative Methods of Financing and Funding for the Department of Highways and Public Transportation and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with categories.
Highway Funding
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Author : Clint Peck
language : en
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Release Date : 2012
Highway Funding written by Clint Peck and has been published by Nova Science Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Federal aid to transportation categories.
The federal government collect revenues from taxes paid by highway users, mostly from those levied on gasoline and diesel fuel, and credits them to the Highway Trust Fund. Those revenues and others are subsequently used for federal spending on highways and transit. In fiscal year 2010, the trust fund's revenues totalled about $35 billion. Some policymakers and transportation analysts have expressed interest in developing new sources of funding. This book analyses the effects of alternative approaches to funding highways and compares the effects of current fuel taxes and of possible new taxes on the number of miles highway users drive.
Highway Funding
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Author : United States. General Accounting Office
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Highway Funding written by United States. General Accounting Office and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Federal aid to transportation categories.
Road Infrastructure Funding
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Author : Russell T. May
language : en
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Release Date : 2014
Road Infrastructure Funding written by Russell T. May and has been published by Nova Science Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Roads categories.
This book examines the funding of roads and highways in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, England and Wales, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, South Africa, and Sweden. It provides a description of the infrastructure in the jurisdiction, information on the ownership and responsibility of the roads, and taxes or other ways of collecting money to fund the nation's infrastructure. By revealing a multiplicity of approaches to the funding of road infrastructure, the report provides an opportunity to determine whether lessons can be learned from the experiences of other countries in funding roads and highways.
Private Sector Funding Of Off Site Highway Improvements
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Author : Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission. Strategic Planning Division
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Private Sector Funding Of Off Site Highway Improvements written by Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission. Strategic Planning Division and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Real estate development categories.
Highway Infrastructure
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Author : United States. General Accounting Office
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Highway Infrastructure written by United States. General Accounting Office and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with categories.
Constructing, improving, and repairing roads is fundamental to meeting the nation's mobility needs. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) supplies most of the money (about $20 billion in fiscal year 2003), and state departments of transportation are primarily responsible for completing projects. Many federal and state agencies (called resource agencies) help ensure that environmental and other concerns are considered. These and other organizations have recognized that the time it takes to complete complex federally funded highway projects is too long--in some cases nearly 20 years. GAO was asked to report the views of knowledgeable officials on the most promising approaches for reducing completion time for federally funded highway projects. GAO obtained the views of 33 officials from federal, state, and private organizations with interests in federally funded roads. Respondents from 33 organizations identified 13 approaches as most promising for reducing the time it takes to plan, design, gain approval for, and build a federally funded highway project. These approaches fell into three areas. Improving project management: Most approaches (8 of 13) focused on state-level activities that could be conducted earlier than customary, with 90 percent of respondents indicating that establishing early partnerships and early coordination among all project stakeholders is highly important to reducing project completion time. Other approaches included added flexibility for states in determining impacts on historic properties and imposing time limits on environmental reviews. Delegating environmental review and permitting authority: Between half and two-thirds of the respondents indicated that utilizing programmatic agreements between transportation and resource agencies to address commonly occurring issues, unifying overall environmental assessments with reviews of project impacts on wetlands, and creating large banks of wetlands to replace those lost at highway project sites offered significant promise for reducing project completion time. Improving agency staffing and skills: Nearly 60 percent of the respondents indicated that using interagency funding agreements in which state departments of transportation can ensure timely attention to environmental reviews of their projects by funding staff at federal or state resource agencies offered significant promise to reduce project completion time. About half of the respondents told us that adequate training of transportation staff on the requirements of all steps in completing a highway project was also a promising approach. For the most part, the respondents were not able to estimate how much time adopting one or more of these approaches might save. Respondents' views varied both within similar types of organizations (such as state departments of transportation) and across lines of responsibility or interest. Generally, agencies and other organizations with primary responsibilities for or interests in building and funding highways ranked certain approaches higher than did agencies and associations with a primary focus on resource issues, and vice versa. Nonetheless, most of the 13 most promising approaches had widespread support across organizations. Although some of these approaches are in use across the country, respondents acknowledged that the usefulness of these approaches could vary by the type of project or community values. For example, projects that are not complex or contentious would not necessarily achieve the time savings that these approaches afford for projects with complex characteristics or disagreement among stakeholders.
Highway Finance
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Author : United States Government Accountability Office
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-09-15
Highway Finance written by United States Government Accountability Office and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-15 with categories.
Congestion is increasing rapidly across the nation and freight traffic is expected to almost double in 20 years. In many places, decision makers cannot simply build their way out of congestion, and traditional revenue sources may not be sustainable. As the baby boom generation retires and the costs of federal entitlement programs rise, sustained, large-scale increases in federal highway grants seem unlikely. To provide the robust growth that many transportation advocates believe is required to meet the nation's mobility needs, state and local decision makers in virtually all states are seeking alternative funding approaches. Tolling (charging a fee for the use of a highway facility) provides a set of approaches that are increasingly receiving closer attention and consideration. This report examines tolling from a number of perspectives, namely: (1) the promise of tolling to enhance mobility and finance highway transportation, (2) the extent to which tolling is being used and the reasons states are using or not using this approach, (3) the challenges states face in implementing tolling, and (4) strategies that can be used to help states address tolling challenges.
Highway Funding Alternatives For Distributing Federal Funds
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Author : DIANE Publishing Company
language : en
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Release Date : 1995
Highway Funding Alternatives For Distributing Federal Funds written by DIANE Publishing Company and has been published by DIANE Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Business & Economics categories.
Discusses the way the formula for distributing federal highway funds works and the relevancy of the data used for the formula. Discusses the major funding objectives implicit in the formula and the implications of alternative formula factors for achieving these objectives. 22 charts, tables and graphs.
