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A Quiet Revolution in Transportation Finance: The Rise of Local Option Transportation Taxes

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  • Goldman, Todd
  • Wachs, Martin
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    During the 20th century the United States built a partnership for financing surface transportation infrastructure that included local, state, and federal expenditures, and relied heavily on user charges to cover the costs of these investments. This paper examines recent changes in the nature of this partnership that are significant, but rarely noted. Policymakers are devolving fiscal responsibility from federal and state to local governments, by increasingly authorizing the use of local option transportation taxes. This trend substitutes general taxes for user fees and charges, and shifts decisions about major transportation projects into the electoral and legislative arena. These changes have significant implications for our understanding of the future or metropolitan transportation planning, and the ways in which we seek to reconcile transportation investments with other public policy objectives.

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    Paper provided by University of California Transportation Center in its series University of California Transportation Center, Working Papers with number qt2gp4m4xq.

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    Date of creation: 01 Jan 2003
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    Handle: RePEc:cdl:uctcwp:qt2gp4m4xq

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    Keywords: Urban Studies and Planning;

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    1. Ang-Olson, Jeffrey & Wachs, Martin & Taylor, Brian D., 2000. "Variable-Rate State Gasoline Taxes," University of California Transportation Center, Working Papers qt3sj6r3kq, University of California Transportation Center.
    2. Adams, Matthew & Hiatt, Rachel & Hill, Mary C. & Russo, Ryan & Wachs, Martin & Weinstein, Asha, 2001. "Financing Transportation in California: Strategies for Change (Final Draft)," Institute of Transportation Studies, Research Reports, Working Papers, Proceedings qt7fh2v7zd, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley.
    3. Goldman, Todd & Corbett, Sam & Wachs, Martin, 2001. "Local Option Transportation Taxes in the United States," University of California Transportation Center, Working Papers qt2g61665m, University of California Transportation Center.
    4. Goldman, Todd & Corbett, Sam & Wachs, Martin, 2001. "Local Option Transportation Taxes in the United States (Part One:," Institute of Transportation Studies, Research Reports, Working Papers, Proceedings qt7j11q63q, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley.
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    Cited by:
    1. Michael Lowry, 2010. "Online public deliberation for a regional transportation improvement decision," Transportation, Springer, vol. 37(1), pages 39-58, January.
    2. Robert Hannay & Martin Wachs, 2007. "Factors influencing support for local transportation sales tax measures," Transportation, Springer, vol. 34(1), pages 17-35, January.
    3. Delucchi, Mark A., 2007. "Do motor-vehicle users in the US pay their way?," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 41(10), pages 982-1003, December.
    4. Lowry, Michael B., 2010. "Using optimization to program projects in the era of communicative rationality," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 17(2), pages 94-101, March.

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