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This research evaluated the potential costs and benefits of doing away with license plate registration stickers as part of the registration renewal process for Pennsylvania. The research consisted of a comprehensive literature review, a survey of U.S. and Canadian licensing agencies, a cost/benefit analysis of eliminating license plate stickers, and an assessment of related law enforcement issues and public information and education (PI&E) campaigns conducted by other agencies that have stopped using license plate registration stickers. The findings favored elimination of a sticker registration program for several reasons, including simplicity, cost savings, elimination of potential sticker theft, and positive reports from similarly adapted programs. As a result of this research, beginning December 31, 2016, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation will no longer require vehicle registrations stickers.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANB40 Standing Committee on Traffic Law Enforcement. Alternate title: Evaluation of the Use of Registration Stickers on Vehicle License Plates

01618707

17-02550

English

16p

2017

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

References; Tables

Benefit cost analysis; Costs; License plates; Motor vehicle licensing; Registration; Theft

Stickers

Pennsylvania

Finance; Highways; Law; Vehicles and Equipment

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-02550

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 8 2016 10:57AM