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The traditional mechanism for funding the national surface transportation system, the motor vehicle fuel tax, is losing the ability to support system needs. Many in the transportation industry believe that fees based on miles traveled, or Mileage-based User Fees (MBUF), are the best long term alternative to the fuel tax. However, there are numerous research questions to be addressed if states and the federal government are to transition to this form of funding. Since 2009 the Texas A&M Transportation Institute and the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota have partnered to convene transportation experts to discuss such issues at the annual Symposium on Mileage-based User Fees. The Fifth Annual Symposium on Mileage Based User Fees was held on April 24, 2013 in Nashville, Tennessee in conjunction with the 2013 Intelligent Transportation Systems of American annual meeting. This focus of the 2013 symposium was technology and how it can be used to overcome various MBUF implementation challenges. A common theme that was expressed throughout the conference is that emerging in-vehicle technologies, such as developments in vehicular telematics and on-board diagnostic-based aftermarket devices, may be able to overcome the well documented public acceptance issues that exist on this topic. Implementation will be further facilitated as vehicles and their drivers continue to connect and network through emerging communications technologies.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE25 Congestion Pricing.

01503729

14-4767

English

15p

2014

Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Communication systems; Conferences; Financing; Fuel taxes; Mileage-based user fees; Vehicle electronics

Texas A&M University; University of Minnesota

Nashville (Tennessee)

Finance; Highways; Policy; I70: Traffic and Transport

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-4767

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 27 2014 3:40PM