Forecasting Transportation Revenue Sources: Survey of State Practices (2015) / Chapter Skim
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5 EARLY ADOPTION OF HIGHWAY USER FEE FINANCING Before 1920, most states' funding for transportation systems, including highways and bridges, depended on allocations by state legislatures of general funds derived from property and income taxes (Martin 1923; Burnham 1961)
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6 fuel meant that taxes could be charged at the wholesale distribution points and did not depend upon the more variable sale price at the pumps at which consumers filled their tanks. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (2014)
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7 tion has declined in absolute numbers every year, and in 2012 total national fuel consumption stood at 123,635 million gallons (Sivak 2014)
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8 capital improvements and some borrowing from state infrastructure banks. These approaches to financing often require longer-term revenue increases, many of which have yet to be enacted.
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