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The paper describes the pricing and investment rules that might be appropriate to a unified transportation trust fund and suggests that they could be based on the same criteria of profitability that are used in the private sector. The consequences of applying such rules to the U.S. transport sector are explored, and it is concluded that rail passenger transport and some waterway transport could be lost, but bus transport and rail freight services could benefit. The effect on air transport would be to divert traffic from the more congested airports to less congested ones. The effect on road transport could be a substantial rise in fuel taxes, especially on diesel fuel, and in the annual registration fees payable by vehicles that impose heavy axle loads on the road system. It is concluded that, if suitable pricing and investment criteria are introduced, a unified transportation trust fund would be unnecessary; if they are not, a unified transportation trust fund could be wasteful. (Author)

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Air transportation; Bus transportation; Economics; Freight transportation; Highway transportation; Investments; Pricing; Railroad transportation; Transportation; Transportation planning

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Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Society; Transportation (General)

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