Mileage-Based User Fee Symposium

Project Description

The motor vehicle fuel tax is rapidly losing the ability to financially support the needs of the surface transportation system. New fuel economy standards will raise the corporate average for passenger vehicles to 54.5 mpg in 2025. Nonetheless, the demand for travel will be sustained in light of collecting less revenue per mile, because fuel efficiency will be increased under this scenario. But the path to implementing a mileage-based user fee is unknown due to hardened political opposition and a cynical public that is skeptical toward any increase or change in taxes.

This project sponsored the 2011 Symposium on Mileage-Based User Fees, held in Breckenridge, Colorado, on June 12?13 as an effort to bring together public agencies, academics, consultants, and transportation advocacy groups to discuss potential implementation pathways for mileage-based fees. Public acceptance was the topic that generated the most interest during the symposium. An approach that accepts voluntary adoption by the users of the system was suggested as a potential implementation pathway that could generally be accepted by the public.

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