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Title:

Explaining Transportation Funding Ballot Measure Success

Accession Number:

01660149

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Transportation infrastructure is expensive, costs are increasing, and across the United States, federal spending on transportation is decreasing as a proportion of overall national spending. Local governments are under increasing pressure to generate revenue to meet project needs. In response, they have turned to ballot measures as one method to raise funds. It remains unclear which characteristics of transportation funding measures and the communities they are held in increase the likelihood of passage. Using regression modelling techniques adapted from open space and conservation (OSC) ballot studies, this study analyzes what variables explain measure passage of local transportation funding measures on ballots in California, Oregon, and Washington from 1995-2015. Results indicate that sociodemographic features do not help explain passage of measures and that other factors like campaign exp

Supplemental Notes:

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

Report/Paper Numbers:

18-03068

Language:

English

Authors:

Herrman, Tyce C

ORCID 0000-0002-0161-6603

Lewis, Rebecca

ORCID 0000-0002-5080-5005

Pagination:

16p

Publication Date:

2018

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2018-1-7 to 2018-1-11
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Uncontrolled Terms:

Tax ballot measures; Voting

Subject Areas:

Finance; Policy; Transportation (General)

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2018 Paper #18-03068

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 8 2018 10:44AM