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Title: Quantitative Analysis of Impacts of Moving Toward a Vehicle Mileage-Based User Fee
Accession Number: 01155676
Record Type: Component
Record URL: Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Find a library where document is available Abstract: This paper offers a broad examination of the revenue generation and social equity implications of a national mileage-based user fee that could be substituted for all or part of the current gas tax. Data from the 2001 National Household Travel Survey are combined with documented elasticity values that can be used to calculate changes in vehicle fleet composition and miles of travel by time of day in response to price signals. These data provide the basis for calculating the impacts of a mileage-based user fee system. It is found that modest mileage-based fees of just 0.5 cent per mile to 1.3 cents per mile can offer revenue streams that replace current gas tax revenue. In addition, the mileage-based user fee system appears to have minimal, if any, differential impacts across income classes and thus eliminates any potential equity concerns that may arise from the implementation of such a user fee system. Impediments to a mileage-based user fee system appear likely to be technological and personal privacy issues as opposed to transportation or social equity issues.
Monograph Title: Monograph Accession #: 01329024
Report/Paper Numbers: 10-2744
Language: English
Authors: Sana, BhargavaKonduri, Karthik CPendyala, Ram MPagination: pp 29-35
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 9780309160605
Media Type: Print
Features: References
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TRT Terms: Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; I10: Economics and Administration
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Jan 25 2010 11:20AM
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