10 Alerts From the infrastructure Tag

The Road User Charge by Any Other Name: NMA E-Newsletter #555

September 1, 2019 • Electric Vehicle, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, Fuel Tax, Gas Tax, GPS TRACKING, infrastructure, NEWSLETTER, NMA, PRIVACY, REVENUE GENERATION, Road User Charge, VMT, VMT Tax

We recently completed a series of newsletters (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3) about the renewed calls for levying a set of surcharges–or thinly disguised taxes–on motorists to help rescue the Federal Highway Trust Fund. National calls are picking up in momentum for the implementation of a system of travel fees layered on top […]

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Are We Slinking Ever Closer to a Universal Road User Charge? Part 3—Regional and Local Efforts: NMA E-Newsletter #551

August 4, 2019 • CALIFORNIA, DELAWARE, Electric Vehicle, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, FHWA, Fuel, Fuel Tax, Gas Tax, HAWAII, infrastructure, MINNESOTA, MISSOURI, NEW HAMPSHIRE, NEW JERSEY, NEWSLETTER, NORTH CAROLINA, OREGON, PENNSYLVANIA, PRIVACY, Road User Charge, SAFETY, Technology, UTAH, VIRGINIA, VMT, VMT Tax

In Parts One and Two of this series, Are We Slinking Ever Closer to a Universal Road User Charge?, we explored what is happening on the national level and in Congress respectively. Road User Charges (RUC) are also called Vehicle Miles Traveled Tax (VMT) or Mileage-Based User Fees (MBUF). A number of states are experimenting […]

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Are We Slinking Ever Closer to a Universal Road User Charge? Part 2—Congress: NMA E-Newsletter #550

July 28, 2019 • CALIFORNIA, DRIVERLESS CARS, Electric Vehicle, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, Fuel Tax, Gas Tax, infrastructure, MICHIGAN, MISSOURI, NEWSLETTER, OREGON, REVENUE GENERATION, Road Usage Charge, TOLL ROAD, TRAFFIC CONGESTION, VISION ZERO, VMT, VMT Tax

Last week, in Part one of Are We Slinking Ever Closer to a Universal Road User Charge?, we examined the efforts of various groups that are currently pushing road user fees onto the American public. (A road user charge or RUC is also commonly referred to as the Vehicle Miles Traveled Tax or VMT Tax […]

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Are We Slinking Ever Closer to a Universal Road User Charge? Part 1—the National Landscape: NMA E-Newsletter #549

July 21, 2019 • ALPR, Electric Vehicle, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, Fuel Tax, Gas Tax, GPS, GPS TRACKING, infrastructure, LEGISLATION, NEWSLETTER, PPP, Public Private Partnership, Road Usage Charge, Technology, TOLL ROAD, VMT, VMT Tax

A road user charge or RUC (also referred to as the Vehicle Miles Traveled Tax or VMT Tax and Mileage Based User Fees or MBUF) currently permeates nearly every discussion of how our country will pay for infrastructure in the future. Many transportation planners and elected officials seem to agree the time has come to […]

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Paying More for Less Service: NMA E-Newsletter #534

April 7, 2019 • ALPR, Bicycle, CALIFORNIA, Congestion Pricing, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, infrastructure, MASS TRANSIT, MASSACHUSETTS, NEW JERSEY, NEW YORK, New York City, NEWSLETTER, OREGON, REVENUE GENERATION, Ridesharing, Scooter, TOLL, TOLLING, TRAFFIC CONGESTION, UTAH, VMT Tax

By 2021, New York City will begin charging drivers who enter Manhattan below Central Park under the guise of congestion pricing. No one is surprised. City and state officials have been trying to make this happen for years. The rare alignment of views between the governor, the mayor, and the state legislature─each likely motivated by […]

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