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Recommendations made for the Future of Transportation Funding
The National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Commission, which is charged with looking at the future of transportation funding, issued its long awaited report on January 15.
Also know as the 1909 Commission, the group’s recommendations were to:
- Raise the federal gas tax by 5 to 8 cents per gallon, per year, for five years and indexing the gas tax to inflation afterwards
- Encourage states to raise their own gas taxes at a faster rate
- Encourage the use of tolls for certain mobility projects
- Enacting new user fees on transit
- Encouraging the use of Public Private Partnerships with limits including toll rate increases
- Streamlining the federal project approval process
- Consolidating the federal transportation to 10 functional areas
- Creating an independent National Surface Transportation Commission to “oversee development of a national strategic plan for transportation investment and to recommend appropriate revenue adjustments to the Congress to implement that plan.”
The 12 commission members were not unanimous in their findings, and some of the commissioners are expected to issue a critique of report that raises problems with recommendations including the gas tax increases and the limits on public-private partnerships
