Research Project IV:

Transportation Financing Alternatives

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Scope and objectives

Investigate a set of highway and public transportation financing mechanisms which are consistent with the region's desire to implement the Met Council's regional growth strategy. Base this analysis on experience in transportation, as well as in other systems (e.g. water resources, electric utilities) where there are high fixed costs.
Investigate privatization and mixed ownership options for highways and transit.
Investigate means of recovering full user costs for transportation facilities. Project the effect of a "full user cost" regime and relate this to the Met Council growth scenario. Compare "full user cost" regime to total costs of other alternatives (as defined in 3C).

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Barry M. Ryan, Dept of Applied Economics
E-mail: ryanx020@umn.edu

Thomas F. Stinson, Dept of Applied Economics
E-mail: tstinson@apec.umn.edu
Web: http://www.apec.umn.edu/@olson.html#stinson

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Road Finance Alternatives: An Analysis of Metro-area Road Taxes

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Research Project IV:

Transportation Financing Alternatives

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