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Title:

Funding Resilient Infrastructure in New Jersey: Attitudes Following a Natural Disaster
Cover of Funding Resilient Infrastructure in New Jersey: Attitudes Following a Natural Disaster

Accession Number:

01592215

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Recent major natural disasters in New Jersey have demonstrated the need to increase 33 the resilience of transportation infrastructure. This research examines public attitudes 34 towards revenue sources that can be dedicated to protecting vulnerable areas, most 35 notably the transportation linkages on which the state depends. A statewide survey was 36 conducted to gather data about four months following Superstorm Sandy, the costliest 37 natural disaster in the state’s history. The authors' objective was to sample public attitudes while 38 the impacts of the disaster were still fresh. The authors found little support for temporary tax 39 increases to improve resiliency, with the most positive support for taxing visitors (i.e., a 40 hotel and recreational tax) and for a 30-year bond measure (i.e., taxing the future). This 41 observation seemingly contradicts broad support for investing in new infrastructure, as 42 well as maintaining and protecting existing infrastructure. Multivariate analysis to 43 understand the underlying attitudes towards raising revenue found that more left-leaning 44 or communitarian attitudes are associated with more support for gasoline, income, or 45 sales taxes devoted to improving vulnerability. Those who supported investment in 46 transit and protecting infrastructure also were more likely to support these taxes. There 47 was no parallel finding of factors associated with taxing visitors or issuing bonds.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE10 Standing Committee on Revenue and Finance.

Monograph Accession #:

01584066

Report/Paper Numbers:

16-0191

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Noland, Robert B
Weiner, Marc D
Greenberg, Michael R

Pagination:

19p

Publication Date:

2016

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2016-1-10 to 2016-1-14
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

References; Tables

Identifier Terms:

Hurricane Sandy, 2012

Uncontrolled Terms:

Resilience (Adaptability)

Geographic Terms:

New Jersey

Subject Areas:

Finance; Policy; Security and Emergencies; Transportation (General); I10: Economics and Administration; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2016 Paper #16-0191

Files:

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 12 2016 4:19PM