Strategic Issues Facing Transportation, Volume 5: Preparing State Transportation Agencies for an Uncertain Energy Future (2014) / Chapter Skim
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13 Under any plausible energy future, including continued reliance on petroleum, state DOTs will likely undergo institutional, financial, and structural change to adapt to evolving conditions, demands, and constraints. The nature of these changes and the resulting long-term impacts on decision making remain uncertain and will most likely vary from one state to the next.
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14 remains dominant, along with scenarios in which other alternative fuels and vehicle propulsion technologies achieve significant market share. To consider how the roles, mandates, finances, and operations of DOTs might change in the future given significant shifts in energy supplies, it is instructive to consider past examples.
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15 to further that state's commitment to sustainability goals. And the Minnesota DOT has in recent years become increasingly active in freight and passenger rail planning efforts and initiatives.
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16 of federal funds. Transportation-related mandates are interpreted and implemented -- that is, applied to state and local agencies subject to the mandates -- by the U.S.
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17 gram, or through prohibitions on certain finance options, such as restrictions on the tolling of existing capacity on federal-aid highways. Rules and regulations may also dictate performance standards for certain state DOT operations, including conformity standards for regional intelligent transportation systems architecture or work-zone safety programs.
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18 in the West Coast Green Highway Initiative. This partnership involving Washington, Oregon, California, and British Columbia is intended to speed adoption and use of electric vehicles by providing a network of public-access recharging locations along the I-5 corridor.
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19 gas emissions in transportation planning and programming (ICF 2008)
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20 in developing the transportation elements of broader state climate action plans (AASHTO, undated)
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21 • Indirect fixed-cost user fees. This category includes fixed fees that are indirectly related to travel but do not vary in proportion to system use.
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22 2009; Wheet and Rall 2011; Wheet, Rall, and Workman 2012; and Durkay and Rall 2013) , for example, there were at least 12 states that considered legislation to increase fueltax rates in 2009, at least seven in 2010, at least eight in 2011, and at least five in 2012.
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23 tions and agency roles or devolve responsibility for certain assets to local governments. Given the vast scope of federal mandates and the range of critical functions and support activities that DOTs provide, opportunities to significantly cut expenditures in absolute terms are not clear.
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24 Many operations approaches are also closely tied to the energy conservation goals of state DOTs. Strategies such as transportation demand management, signal coordination, ramp metering, intelligent transportation system (ITS)
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25 roles and responsibilities of DOTs for other modes could continue to expand. Broader array of policy concerns.
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26 2. Population growth.
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