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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 Institute, 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)
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Resource papers:
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Presentations:
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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

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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

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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

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