Implications of Alternate Revenue Sources for Transportation Planning

2011Final ReportPDFTech ReportGDOT Research Project No. 10-15RevenuesFinancingFuel taxesVehicle miles of travelTraffic measurementCongestion pricingTollsAttitudesCordon countsSurveysQuestionnairesTransportation fundingFuel taxesCongestion pricingVehicle miles traveltaxTollsCordon feesBehavioral responses to transportation taxes and tollsPublic attitudeRevenue sourcesTransportation studiesGeorgia survey questionsResearch HubGeorgiaUnited StatesGeorgia. Dept. of TransportationUnited States. Federal Highway AdministrationSjoquist, David L.Ellen, Pam ScholderLaury, SusanAlmada, LorenzoStoycheva, RaynaGeorgia State UniversityUniversity of MiamiGeorgia. Dept. of TransportationUnited States. Federal Highway AdministrationNTL-ECONOMICS AND FINANCE-Alternative FinanceNTL-ECONOMICS AND FINANCE-FundingNTL-OPERATIONS AND TRAFFIC CONTROLS-CongestionNTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-SurveysUS Transportation CollectionThis report focuses on selected issues associated with alternative sources of transportation funding. In particular, this report: presents a list of funding options, discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each option, explores public attitudes towards selected options, and investigates how certain funding option might alter transportation behavior. A relatively comprehensive list of transportation funding options is presented, and the advantages and disadvantages of each are discussed. The public\u2019s acceptability of a few of these options is then explored, first, through a review of existing public opinion surveys of funding alternative, and second, by a large opinion survey that was conducted in Georgia. The report then explores how some of the revenue options might alter transportation behavior. First, a review of existing studies of the effect of revenue sources on transportation behavior is presented, including both surveys of what individuals say they would do in the face of changes in transportation taxes and fees and econometric studies of how individuals react. Second, the results of Georgia survey questions regarding how the respondent would alter his or her transportation behavior if certain transportation taxes and fees were increased are presented. Third, the results of a laboratory experiment that explores the transportation choices of the subjects when confronted with different level of congestion fees are discussed