Implementable Strategies for Shifting to Direct Usage-Based Charges for Transportation Funding:

This report presents an analysis of ways that direct charges to road users, based on vehicle-miles of travel (VMT), could be implemented within approximately the next 5 years. VMT fees are possibly an alternative or supplement to fuel taxes that for many decades have been a principal mechanism for funding the transportation system. This document describes trends in fuel-tax revenue and VMT growth that suggest the motivation for considering such fees, and then describes how currently available technology and administrative structures might be used to implement direct usage-based charges. The analysis is informed by recent trials conducted by several states. 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 such direct usage-based charges.

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