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Financial management and legislative briefing package by Minnesota. Dept. of Transportation. Financial and Management Analysis Annual Description based on: November 1988; title from cover. Minnesota. Department of Transportation Appropriations and expenditures. Transportation Minnesota Finance. Transportation Law and legislation Minnesota.
Call Number: HE213.M6 M561935x
From fuel taxes to mileage-based user fees : rationale, technology, and transitional issues by University of Minnesota. Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute Two national commissions established by the U.S. Congress recommend replacing the current system of funding transportation based on fuel taxes with a new distance-based system of user fees. The State of Oregon has done a pilot project demonstrating a system for transitioning to mileage-based fees by paying the fees at the gas pump. The University of Iowa has conducted pilot tests around the country to determine how drivers respond to a mileage-based fee approach using GPS-based technology. The Puget Sound Regional Council has conducted a test of congestion tolling. Finally, the Minnesota Department of Transportation is testing an approach for collecting mileage-based user charges using commercially available smartphones with built-in GPS devices, in which the charge element is just one of the applications. While there have been discussions among many transportation leaders regarding why fuel taxes are no longer a good way of funding the transportation system, there is by no means a public understanding of why this is so. The public assumes that the taxes they pay at the pump are paying for the system, and that if funding problems exist, they are due to waste and inefficiency. This examination--of the rationale, technology, and transitional issues in shifting from a financing system for surface transportation based on fuel taxes to one that is based on a mileage-based user fee (MBUF) traveled or vehicle-miles traveled (VMT) fee--sets the stage for a policy discussion on transportation-related user fees and lays the groundwork for an extensive public outreach effort.
Call Number: HE336.C66 F76 2011
Local and regional funding mechanisms for public transportation. by Cambridge Systematics
Call Number: TCRP 129
ISBN: 9780309117715
Report on dedicated fund expenditures by Minnesota Deptartment of Transportation http://www.dot.state.mn.us/govrel/reports/2016/th-hutd-dedicated-fund-expenditures.pdf
Call Number: HE196.5 .R46 2016
Survey of state funding for public transportation, final report 2017, FY 2015 data by American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.
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