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Section 6- Financial Strategies
Pages 131-138

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... This conference resource paper begins by citing the specific financial planning requirements of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA)
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... secure adequate funding for transportation investments and services. The paper demonstrates a sketch planning procedure to analyze a congested urban area of about 1.5 million population in order to estimate effectiveness of congestion pricing with respect to the above objectives.
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... While historic Federal policy generally prohibited Federal aid for toll projects, the Act permits states and private entities to combine Federal highway trust funds and toll financing for funding highway infrastructure improvements. This paper describes several policy issues and options regarding Federal toll road policy and presents the results of a survey of the chief administrative officers of the state Departments of Transportation (DOTS)
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... Because of the long range planning mandates for Metropolitan Planning Organizations contained in the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, the Southwestern Pennsylvania Regional Planning Commission (SPRPC) has embarked on a major public/private planning effort for the Pittsburgh metropolitan region.
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From page 135...
... Jan 1993, 59, Pp 19-20. The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA)
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From page 136...
... Submitted to the Congestion Pricing Symposium, Jun 10 1992, Washington, DC. Improvements in electronic toll collection technology along with worsening urban traffic congestion, scarce resources for transportation financing, and new federal legislation (ISTEA and the Clean Air Act Amendments)
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... . Presented to Transportation Planning Methods Applications Conference, Apr 17 1995, Seattle, Washington.
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... The suggested approach returns two-thirds of the revenues to travelers through travel allowances and tax reductions, and uses the rest to improve transportation throughout the area and provide targeted services to affected business centers. By replacing regressive sales and fuel taxes, this approach offsets the tendency of the prices alone to have a regressive distributional impact.
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