Transportation Finance
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics - Government Transportation Financial Statistics 2003. This report is the latest in a series that provides statistics on transportation-related revenues and expenditures of federal, state, and local governments for all modes of transportation. The report also contains federal budget authority and obligations, and grants to state and local governments. Statistics on federal expenditures, budget authority, and obligations are provided at the agency and program level.
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics - Federal Subsides for Passenger Transportation data on federal transportation revenues, expenditures, and net subsidies, by mode. Subsidy, for the purpose of the BTS analysis, represents a simple accounting calculation of the net flow of funds to or from the federal government for individual transportation modes. The excess of expenditures over revenues is the net subsidy.
California State Legislative Analyst's Office 2005 Report on State Revenue Volatility http://www.lao.ca.gov/2005/rev%5Fvol/rev%5Fvolatility%5F012005.pdf
Funding Strategies for Public Transportation, 2 Volumes, Transit Cooperative Research Program Report #31 http://gulliver.trb.org/publications/tcrp/tcrp_rpt_31-1-a.pdf
Improving Efficiency and Effectiveness in Transportation Finance by U.C. Berkeley Transportation Institute Professor Martin Wachs for the Brookings Institution, Washington D.C. http://www.brook.edu/es/urban/publications/wachstransportation.htm
InnovativeFinance.org rail projects http://www.innovativefinance.org/projects/rail_transit/default.asp
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority funding sources: LACMTA Funding Source Guide
Minnesota's Metro Transit Financing primer http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/hrd/issinfo/ssmettf.pdf
Report on Innovative Financing Techniques for Transit Agencies, Transit Cooperative Research Program Legal Digest #13 http://gulliver.trb.org/publications/tcrp/tcrp_lrd_13.pdf
The Economic Costs of Fuel Economy Standards Versus a Gasoline Taxhttp://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/49xx/doc4917/12-24-03_CAFE.pdf
Congressional Budget Office
December 24, 2003
Fueling Transportation Finance: A Primer on the Gas Taxhttp://www.brook.edu/es/urban/publications/gastax.pdf
Robert Puentes and Ryan Prince
The Brookings Institution Series on Transportation Reform
March 2003
Future Highway And Public Transportation Financing
http://snipurl.com/jpj1
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has released a report that identifies long-term funding mechanisms designed to meet the nation's future highway and transit needs. The report includes suggestions for alternatives to the current fuel tax-based system. The report examines both capital and operating needs for highways and transit systems at all levels of government.
Financing Capital Investment: A Primer for the Transit Practitioner
http://gulliver.trb.org/publications/tcrp/tcrp_rpt_89a.pdf
Transit Cooperative Research Program Report 89
2003
Oregon Innovative Partnerships Program
The Oregon Innovative Partnerships Program (OIPP) is forming to develop transportation projects for solicitation of private sector proposals for partnership and to respond to proposals initiated by private firms and units of government. From September 2003 through mid-2004, the Innovative Partnerships Unit (IPU) will develop proposed administrative rules and operating procedures, determine how to identify eligible transportation projects, develop protocols for risk assessment and management, develop criteria for pre-qualifying potential partners, develop public involvement and outreach processes and integrate the IPU within ODOT. ODOT also will contract with an assortment of expert consultants to assist the IPU in development of projects and RFPs, evaluation of proposals, negotiation of public-private agreements and management of public-private initiatives.
Oregon Road User Fee Task Force
As well as the gas tax has served the road needs of Oregonians in the past, it will soon become a declining revenue source. The Road User Fee Task Force is charged with the duty of designing a new revenue collection system for road funding to ultimately replace the gas tax. Oregon will be well served in finding a solution to this concern before it becomes an emergency.
The Oregon Transportation Investment Act (OTIA)
Provides $500 million for 173 construction projects that will improve pavement conditions, increase lane capacity and improve bridges throughout Oregon. Many projects are already under way, and all OTIA projects will be delivered during the eight-year life of the program. OTIA was passed by the 2001 Oregon Legislative Assembly and is funded through bond proceeds derived from increased DMV fees. Projects were selected with extensive input from local communities and other stakeholders.
Improving Efficiency and Equity in Transportation Finance
http://www.brook.edu/es/urban/publications/wachstransportation.htm
Martin Wachs
The Brookings Institution Series on Transportation Reform
April 2003
Learning from Experience: A Primer on Tax Increment Financing New York Cityhttp://www.ibo.nyc.ny.us/iboreports/TIF-Sept2002.pdf
Independent Budget Office Fiscal Brief
September 2002
Greater Accountability
http://www.brook.edu/es/urban/publications/200310_puentes.htm
Robert Puentes and Linda Bailey
The Brookings Institution Series on Transportation Reform
October 2003This policy brief summarizes the extent of funding and program authority metropolitan areas are currently afforded under TEA-21. This brief does so by examining the evolution of metropolitan transportation decision making and the role of metropolitan areas under current law. In the end, it argues that federal transportation law needs to expand existing funding sources and decision making to allow metropolitan areas to fulfill the promises of previous reform efforts and to maintain a transportation system that works for 21st century metropolitan America.
Bridge Tolls: Who Would Pay? And How Much?http://www.ibo.nyc.ny.us/iboreports/bridgetolls.pdf
New York City Independent Budget Office Fiscal Brief
October 2003
Innovative Financing Options for Kentucky's Transportation Infrastructurhttp://www.innovativefinance.org/home_tools/pdfs/kyu_if_report.pdf
Merle M. Hackbart
Kentucky Transportation Center, College of Engineering
April 2001
Reforming Transport Taxes ECMT
http://www1.oecd.org/cem/topics/taxes/index.htm
European Conference of Ministers of Transport
Fiscal and Financial Aspects of Transport
2003
Toll Facilities in the United States
Bridges-Roads-Tunnels-Ferries
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/tollpage.htm
June 2003
This report contains selected information on toll facilities in the United States. The information is based on a survey of facilities in operation, financed, or under construction as of January 1, 2003.