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2005 Oberstar Forum — Related Links
Overview
How should transportation be funded in the future? Speech
by Congressman James L. Oberstar, Humphrey School, University
of Minnesota, November 10, 2003.
Link
to speech
Highlights of an expert panel: the benefits and costs of highway
and transit investments, U.S. Government Accountability Office,
2005.
www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-05-423SP (PDF)
National Transportation Library’s Digital Collection:
Alternative Finance
/exit.php?launch=ntl.bts.gov/display.cfm?sub=k1&cat=11
Contains many resources on alternative finance in transportation.
Fueling Transportation Finance: A Primer on the Gas Tax,
Robert Puentes, Ryan Prince.
Brookings Institution, Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy,
2003.
www.brookings.edu/es/urban/publications/gastax.pdf
Transportation Finance: Meeting the Funding Challenge Today,
Shaping Policies for Tomorrow (TRB Conference Proceeding 33)
/exit.php?launch=trb.org/publications/conf/cp33transportationfinance.pdf
Resource papers:
/exit.php?launch=gulliver.trb.org/conferences/2002FinancePapers.pdfPresentations:
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Trends in Transportation Finance—National
Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Innovative Finance Web site
www.fhwa.dot.gov/innovativefinance
Finance shifting from fuel tax to local measures, tolls,
CTS Report, June 2004.
www.cts.umn.edu/news/report/2004/06/finance.html
Trends in Federal and State Capital Investment in Highways,
U.S. General Accounting Office, 2003.
www.gao.gov/new.items/d03744r.pdf
Trends in State Capital Investment in Highways, U.S. General
Accounting Office, 2003.
www.gao.gov/special.pubs/gao-03-915sp/toc.html
Oregon Department of Transportation, Office of Innovative Partnerships
and Alternative Funding, Road User Fee Task Force Web site
www.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/OIPP/ruftf.shtml
Improving Efficiency and Equity in Transportation Finance,
Martin Wachs. Brookings Institution, Center on Urban and Metropolitan
Policy, 2003.
www.brookings.edu/es/urban/publications/wachstransportation.pdf
A Dozen Reasons for Raising Gasoline Taxes, Martin Wachs.
University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Transportation
Studies, UCB-ITS-RR-2003-1, 2003.
www.its.berkeley.edu/publications/UCB/2003/rr/UCB-ITS-RR-2003-1.pdf
A New Approach to Assessing Road User Charges, David Forkenbrock,
John Kuhl. Minnesota Department of Transportation, Mn/DOT 2003-30,
2002.
www.lrrb.org/pdf/200330.pdf
Alternatives to the Motor Fuel Tax, Anthony M. Rufolo,
Robert L. Bertini, Thomas Kimpel. Oregon Department of Transportation,
OR-RD-02-06, 2001.
www.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/OIPP/docs/561report.pdf
Trends in Transportation Finance—Minnesota
Paying for Minnesota Low Volume Roads: A Tax Policy Assessment,
Barry Ryan, Thomas Stinson. Minnesota Department of Transportation,
Mn/DOT 2004-04, 2003.
www.lrrb.org/pdf/200404.pdf
The Distribution of Transportation Costs in the Twin Cities
Region, David Anderson and Gerard McCullough. University of
Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies, No. 15 in the Transportation
and Regional Growth Series, 2003.
www.cts.umn.edu/trg/research/reports/TRG_15.html
Road Finance Alternatives: An Analysis of Metro-area Road Taxes,
Barry Ryan and Thomas F. Stinson, University of Minnesota Center
for Transportation Studies, No. 9 in the Transportation and Regional
Growth Series, 2002.
www.cts.umn.edu/trg/research/reports/TRG_09.html
Technology
A New Approach to Assessing Road User Charges: Evaluation of
Core Technologies, Max Donath, Shashi Skekhar, Pi-Ming Cheng,
Xiaobin Ma. Minnesota Department of Transportation, Mn/DOT 2003-38,
2003.
www.lrrb.gen.mn.us/PDF/200338.pdf
Technology Evaluation for Implementation of Vehicle Miles Traveled
Based Revenue Collection Systems, David Kim, David Porter,
Robin Wurl. Oregon Department of Transportation, 2002.
www.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/OIPP/docs/OSU_VMT_Final_Report_WEB.pdf