Equity evaluation of vehicle miles traveled fees in Texas.

Details

• Creators:
  Burris, Mark ; Larsen, Lisa
• Corporate Creators:
  Texas Transportation Institute
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Fuel taxes
  • Vehicle miles of travel
  • Equity (Finance)
  • Evaluation
  • Highway user taxation
  • Transportation, Automotive--Taxation
  • User charges
  • Transportation--Finance
  • Motor vehicles--Taxation
• Publication/ Report Number:
  SWUTC/12/161105-1
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Texas
• Corporate Publisher:
  Southwest Region University Transportation Center (U.S.)
• Abstract:
  The Texas state gas tax has been 20.0 cents per gallon since 1991, and the federal gas tax has been 18.4 ; cents per gallon since 1993. The gas tax is not only stagnant, but depreciating in value due to inflation. ; One proposed alternative to the gas tax is the creation of a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) fee; with equity ; being a crucial issue to consider. ; This research used 2009 National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) Texas data to consider the equity ; impacts surrounding four VMT fee scenarios. Data were filtered and weighted to reflect results ; representative of Texas vehicle-owning households in 2008. Each scenario was run both statically and ; dynamically under the assumption that the VMT fee would replace the state gas tax. Results indicate that ; all of the VMT fee scenarios are essentially as equally vertically equitable as the current state gas tax ; system.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  10727
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/25802/dot_25802_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.35 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:fe43d41ab59bbc78ef06a8636746e4d476a5ad56cec85495cafb39ffb064c5a117e7a64b9b77f43184268cf880e3088523c52984b45772b64e04add21ed8f66a