System Trials to Demonstrate Mileage-Based Road Use Charges (2010) / Chapter Skim
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82 7. DESIGN OF THE TRIALS The preceding chapter addressed strategic themes and issues that arose during the interviews and workshop, including the development of alternate frameworks for the trials.
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83 outreach efforts. Many respondents argued that TRB would be the best candidate to fulfill this research management role, though other organizations (e.g., FHWA)
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84 7.1.5. State Legislative Requirements Question 7.2 asked about the conditions under which enabling state legislation would be required for states to participate in the trials.
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85 the trials -- and the approach to funding the trials (note that discussion of how much the trials might actually cost is presented in the following section)
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86 7.2.4. Criteria for Competitive Awards Questions 6.4 and 6.5 asked about the criteria that should be applied if the funding for trials were to be awarded on a competitive basis.
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87 support for VMT fees. Within the context of trials intended to help plan and prepare for implementation, all of these goals would be valuable.
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88 7.3.3. Cost of Trials Question 10.1 asked about how much it might cost to implement the trials.
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89 a few suggesting $1 billion or more (interesting, these dollar figures fall in the same range as the estimates of what the trials might actually cost, as discussed above)
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90 7.5. HIGH PRIORITY ISSUES TO EXAMINE IN THE TRIALS This section summarizes responses for questions related to specific technical, institutional, implementation and transition, and user acceptances issues that the trials might be designed to address.
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91 classes of vehicles (e.g., older vehicles without the OBD II port that might require distinct metering device configurations) , charging foreign vehicles, rebating fuel taxes to those who pay VMT fees (if needed)
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92 7.6.3. Parallel Education Activities Though the project focused mainly on the trials themselves, question 9.3 asked interview and workshop participants to consider complementary education and outreach activities that might be included before, during, and after the trials.
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93 protection to help verify that the adopted privacy mechanisms work at intended. It would also be valuable to engage a firm with telecommunications and data security expertise to identify any potential vulnerabilities in the area of data security.
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