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Title:

System Trials to Demonstrate Mileage-Based Road Use Charges
Cover of System Trials to Demonstrate Mileage-Based Road Use Charges

Accession Number:

01324712

Record Type:

Monograph

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/9780309430234

Abstract:

For a number of reasons, direct charges to road users are being considered to supplement or replace fuel taxes as a primary source of revenue to fund development, operation, and maintenance of the nation’s road system. This report presents an analysis of factors to be considered in designing and implementing large-scale trials of mechanisms for collecting such road-user charges, based on vehicle-miles of travel (VMT). A previous report—NCHRP Web- Only Document 143: Implementable Strategies for Shifting to Direct Usage-Based Charges for Transportation Funding—that described how currently available technology and administrative structures might be used to implement direct usage-based charges in the near future identified trials as an important element for devising viable systems. The objectives of trials would be to demonstrate the functional feasibility of technologies for recording road usage, assessing charges, and collecting fees; to gauge and possibly encourage public acceptance of direct-usage fees; and to provide insights on cost and organizational matters helpful to designing and implementing direct usage-based charges. This document describes criteria for designing trials; principal uncertainties regarding VMT fees that trails may help to reduce; and possible options for funding, organizing, structuring, managing, and conducting trials. The analysis is informed by recent trials conducted in the United States and elsewhere. The information will be useful to national- and state-level policy makers and to government officials and others who may be engaged in evaluating, designing, and implementing direct usage-based charges.

Report/Paper Numbers:

NCHRP Project 20-24(69)A

Language:

English

Authors:

Sorensen, Paul
Wachs, Martin
Ecola, Liisa

Pagination:

193p

Publication Date:

2010

Serial:

NCHRP Web-Only Document

Issue Number: 161
Publisher: Transportation Research Board

ISBN:

9780309430234

Edition:

Contractor Final Report

Media Type:

Web

Features:

Appendices (4) ; References; Tables

Uncontrolled Terms:

Road user charging

Subject Areas:

Finance; Highways; I10: Economics and Administration

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Jan 10 2011 3:46PM