Funding and Financing Highways and Public Transportation

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Resources, Science, and Industry Division

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Banks and banking.

Federal aid to transportation.

Gasoline--Taxation.

Gasoline.

Roads.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Contained In:

ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection

Place of Publication:

[United States] [publisher not identified] 2015

Summary:

Discusses problems associated with Highway Trust Fund (HTF) financing system, which supports both Federal highway and public transportation programs; and explores possible options for financing surface transportation infrastructure. Addresses existing highway fuel taxes, alternatives for HTF financing, future of the trust fund, toll financing of Federal-aid system highways, value capture, public-private partnerships, financing under the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act, proposals to create a national infrastructure bank to help finance infrastructure projects, and possible enhancements to existing State infrastructure banks

This report is one in a series of updates. For the most recent coverage of this report series, please see 14-R4-2877a in the 2014 issue

Notes:

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Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed Aug. 2015). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC

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Microfiche version Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Resources, Science, and Industry Division. Funding and Financing Highways and Public Transportation

Publisher Number:

CRS-2015-RSI-0331

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