Strategic Issues Facing Transportation, Volume 5: Preparing State Transportation Agencies for an Uncertain Energy Future (2014) / Chapter Skim
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226 As an alternative to raising additional revenue in response to declining fuel-tax receipts, or perhaps as a complement, states could focus on strategies for reducing costs. This could involve striving for greater efficiency or paring the scope of DOT responsibilities to focus on core missions and either eliminating or devolving other activities.
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227 Performance-based accountability. By putting in place systems that periodically rate the performance of transportation facilities and services and then allocate funding on the basis of established improvements in measured performance over time, some states have improved the efficiency of service delivery in the realm of public transit and in highway maintenance and traffic safety.
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228 and performance-based accountability could require modest restructuring of offices within the DOT. J.1.6 Required Lead Time This is difficult to predict with precision.
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229 that a state DOT pursuing this strategy would likely eliminate programs related to transit, biking, and the like, and that transit users in particular are disproportionately more likely to come from lower-income and minority groups, a rating of moderately negative has been assigned with respect to equity. Given the considerations outlined, however, this strategy may be perceived as being significantly inequitable.
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230 Kissinger, P
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