Author: Kumares Chandra SinhaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Amount of Travel and Fuel Sales Attributable to Out-of-state Vehicles on Indiana Highways
Author: Kumares Chandra SinhaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Amount of Travel and Fuel Sales Attributable to Out-of-state Vehcles on Indiana Highways
Author: Kumares C. SinhaIndiana Highway Cost Allocation and Revenue Attribution Study and Estimation of Travel by Out-Of-State Vehicles
Author: Matthew VolovskiPublisher:
ISBN: 9781622603589
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This study was commissioned by INDOT to investigate the cost responsibility and revenue contribution of highway users with regard to the upkeep of Indiana's state and local highway infrastructure. For revenues, user and non-user sources were considered. The highway users were represented by the 13 FHWA vehicle classes, and the study was based on 2009-2012 data on expenditures and revenues. The study framework duly recognized the dichotomy between attributable and common costs. For allocating the attributable costs to the vehicle classes, ESALs, AASHTO loading equivalents, and PCEs were used; for allocating common costs, VMT was used. For each vehicle class, the share of revenue contribution was compared to the share of cost responsibility to determine respective equity ratios and thus to ascertain the extent to which vehicles in each class may be currently underpaying or overpaying their cost responsibilities. The study also determined the distribution of fuel purchases and travel by out-of-state vehicles on Indiana's highways; this analysis was required to further refine the results of the cost allocation and to quantify the magnitude of any imbalance between the out-of-state travel and share of consumption on Indiana's infrastructure and the revenue from such out-of-state vehicles.Pavement and bridge expenditures were found to have a dominant share of the overall expenditures on Indiana's highway system. It was determined that the user revenue sources contributed approximately 63.5% of the total state funding for highway expenditures and 36.5% were from non-user revenue sources. The inability of user revenue sources to cover the total highway expenditure and the consequent partial reliance on non-user sources constitute a rather unstable funding situation particularly because the non-user sources are characterized by significant variability.This study found that inequities exist, albeit in varying degrees, among the highway user groups. Of the 13 vehicle classes, classes 1-4 were found to be overpaying their cost responsibilities while classes 5-13 are underpaying. The results of the equity analysis are generally consistent with those of studies carried out at other states.
Checklist of Indiana State Documents
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
State highway finance and user taxation in Indiana
Author: State Highway Finance and User Taxation in Indiana
Author: John Raymond McCarthyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motor fuels
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Checklist of State Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Highway Safety Literature
Author: Announcement of Highway Safety Literature
Author: Updates to Indiana Fuel Tax and Registration Revenue Projections
Author: Bismark R. D. K. AgbeliePublisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 9781622602315
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Highway revenues both at the federal and state levels have failed to keep up with expected investments required for infrastructure preservation and improvement. The reasons for this trend include the increasing fuel efficiency of vehicles, slowing of the growth in vehicle-miles of travel, and the erosion of the purchasing power of the dollar due to inflation. Past studies on the issue of highway revenue forecasting for Indiana highways were conducted under different economic conditions than what exists today. The present study updates the revenue projections of particularly with the recognition of new CAFE Standards. The present study also updates the equations for estimating vehicle miles of travel. Impacts of alternative options for changing the fuel tax rate structure are also investigated. The present study predicted fuel tax revenues from 2012 to 2025 under the existing fuel tax rate structure and also considered possible options for changes in fuel tax rates. Fuel tax revenue from existing rate structure indicated a continuous annual decrease from 2012 to 2025 by 2.96% to 3.49% in real terms. Adopting one of the four fuel tax rate modifications would provide additional short- term revenue for a variable number of years. A 1-cent increase would offset the decline in the total fuel tax revenue only for a year after which it will continually decline every year. A 3-cent increase would provide a substantial increase in revenue in the short term but will continually decline, however, the 2025 revenue from 3-cent increase would be a little higher than the 2012 revenue level. Both inflation indexing and an ad valorem tax would also provide substantial increase in fuel tax revenue.