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From page 74... ... NCHRP 20-24(49) – Future Financing Options to Meet Highway and Transit Needs 5-1 5.0 Prospective New and Enhanced Funding Options All of the most promising alternative revenue sources developed in the study have been evaluated in accord with a comprehensive set of criteria that are commonly applied to transportation revenue proposals. Read the entire page →
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From page 86... ... NCHRP 20-24(49) – Future Financing Options to Meet Highway and Transit Needs 5-13 5.3 Summary Review of the Promising Revenue and Financing Options Revenue Options Fuel Taxes As with Federal revenues, the single most effective revenue mechanism for states in the short term is to adjust motor fuel taxes or to innovate with motor fuel taxes, including indexing state motor fuel taxes for inflation, collecting a sales tax on motor fuel, and pursuing other petroleum taxes, such as in Pennsylvania and New York. Read the entire page →
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From page 88... ... NCHRP 20-24(49) – Future Financing Options to Meet Highway and Transit Needs 5-15 Constrained revenue streams at all levels of government, together with the opportunity to build and operate toll roads or special toll lanes without toll collection plazas, has led to a resurgent interest in tolling to fund new highway capacity. Read the entire page →
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From page 90... ... NCHRP 20-24(49) – Future Financing Options to Meet Highway and Transit Needs 5-17 recent repeal of indexing, they can be politically vulnerable particularly at times of high fuel prices such as now. Read the entire page →
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... NCHRP 20-24(49) – Future Financing Options to Meet Highway and Transit Needs 5-1 5.0 Prospective New and Enhanced Funding Options All of the most promising alternative revenue sources developed in the study have been evaluated in accord with a comprehensive set of criteria that are commonly applied to transportation revenue proposals.