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... NCHRP 20-24(49) – Future Financing Options to Meet Highway and Transit Needs 7-1 7.0 Implementation Plan and Strategies „ 7.1 Implementation Plan for Highway and Transit Funding Initiatives Over the past decade or more, important lessons have emerged from around the country on the steps that are necessary to successfully propose and enact new or enhanced revenue measures in support of national, state, local, and regional highway and transit programs.
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... NCHRP 20-24(49) – Future Financing Options to Meet Highway and Transit Needs 7-2 .
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... NCHRP 20-24(49) – Future Financing Options to Meet Highway and Transit Needs 7-3 measures were approved.3 This success for transportation has translated to over $70 billion in approved funding.
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... NCHRP 20-24(49) – Future Financing Options to Meet Highway and Transit Needs 7-4 .
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... NCHRP 20-24(49) – Future Financing Options to Meet Highway and Transit Needs 7-5 Figure 7.3 Success Rate by Type of Measure Source: CFTE.
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... NCHRP 20-24(49) – Future Financing Options to Meet Highway and Transit Needs 7-6 .
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... NCHRP 20-24(49) – Future Financing Options to Meet Highway and Transit Needs 7-7 execution of the plan and program and how agencies and organizations are to partner for the plan and program to succeed.
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... NCHRP 20-24(49) – Future Financing Options to Meet Highway and Transit Needs 7-8 .
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... NCHRP 20-24(49) – Future Financing Options to Meet Highway and Transit Needs 7-9 also can pose difficulties for the traditional method of funding highways by collecting taxes on motor fuels at a fueling station.
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... NCHRP 20-24(49) – Future Financing Options to Meet Highway and Transit Needs 7-10 .
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... NCHRP 20-24(49) – Future Financing Options to Meet Highway and Transit Needs 7-11 present a strong case for an increase in the motor fuel tax to be spent on major capital improvements.
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... NCHRP 20-24(49) – Future Financing Options to Meet Highway and Transit Needs 7-12 .
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... NCHRP 20-24(49) – Future Financing Options to Meet Highway and Transit Needs 7-13 • An extensive, broad-based coalition of supporting organizations involved in field activities (157 businesses, 26 local governments, 74 local elected officials)
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... NCHRP 20-24(49) – Future Financing Options to Meet Highway and Transit Needs 7-14 .
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... NCHRP 20-24(49) – Future Financing Options to Meet Highway and Transit Needs 7-15 • Guidance for the effort from a broadly representative group of community leaders, the Maricopa 2020/Yes on 400 Committee.
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... NCHRP 20-24(49) – Future Financing Options to Meet Highway and Transit Needs 7-16 .
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... NCHRP 20-24(49) – Future Financing Options to Meet Highway and Transit Needs 7-17 • Privacy – Oregon DOT has clarified through interviews and articles that the road user fee program collects mileage data only and does not collect location information.
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... NCHRP 20-24(49) – Future Financing Options to Meet Highway and Transit Needs 7-18 .
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... NCHRP 20-24(49) – Future Financing Options to Meet Highway and Transit Needs 7-19 corridor-level improvements across the State, not just in a single area; and the willingness of the governor to champion the effort politically as an important element underpinning Idaho's economic development.
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... NCHRP 20-24(49) – Future Financing Options to Meet Highway and Transit Needs 7-20 .
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... NCHRP 20-24(49) – Future Financing Options to Meet Highway and Transit Needs 7-21 open-road tolling concepts, express lanes …, [and]
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... NCHRP 20-24(49) – Future Financing Options to Meet Highway and Transit Needs 7-23 Figure 7.4 Timeframe for Transition 2006 2009 2015 2021 2027 SAFETEA-LU TEA-X TEA-2X TEA-3X TEA-4X Commission Short-Term Revenue Actions Federally Supported VMT Pilots State/Local VMT Implementation Federal VMT Piggybacking HTF Solvency The TRB policy report on alternatives for transportation funding suggests that a clear policy rationale may be the most important factor in implementing new or modified revenue mechanisms.10 The transition will inevitably involve policy discussion of the future Federal role in highway and transit programs, a topic being considered by the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission authorized in SAFETEA-LU.

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