{"id":593,"date":"2016-09-13T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/09\/13\/federal-grant-to-test-alternative-to-gas-tax\/"},"modified":"2016-09-13T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T20:13:00","slug":"federal-grant-to-test-alternative-to-gas-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/federal-grant-to-test-alternative-to-gas-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Grant to Test Alternative to Gas Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Which state received this\u00a0federal grant?<\/strong>\u00a0Delaware\u00a0\u00a0Department of Transportation<\/p>\n<p><strong>What alternative to the gas tax is Delaware testing?<\/strong>\u00a0Mileage based tax<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grant amount:<\/strong>\u00a0$1.49\u00a0million\u00a0federal grant<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are other states involved?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0yes, 5 Atlantic Coast states are testing a mileage based transportation funding mechanism<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does the pilot program look like?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Transportation officials will\u00a0track the driving habits of\u00a050 volunteer Delaware motorists<\/li>\n<li>The goal is to\u00a0assess\u00a0a charge based on their mileage.<\/li>\n<li>Similar\u00a0projects in:\n<ul>\n<li>Pennsylvania<\/li>\n<li>Connecticut<\/li>\n<li>New Hampshire<\/li>\n<li>Vermont<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Total cost for\u00a0all five states is $2.98 million<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delawareonline.com\/story\/news\/2016\/08\/30\/feds-approve-grant-test-gas-tax-replacement\/89591074\/\">Delaware Online |\u00a0Feds approve grant to test gas tax replacement<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Which state received this\u00a0federal grant?<\/strong>\u00a0Delaware\u00a0\u00a0Department of Transportation<\/p>\n<p><strong>What alternative to the gas tax is Delaware testing?<\/strong>\u00a0Mileage based tax<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grant amount:<\/strong>\u00a0$1.49\u00a0million\u00a0federal grant<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are other states involved?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0yes, 5 Atlantic Coast states are testing a mileage based transportation funding mechanism<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does the pilot program look like?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Transportation officials will\u00a0track the driving habits of\u00a050 volunteer Delaware motorists<\/li>\n<li>The goal is to\u00a0assess\u00a0a charge based&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-motor-vehicles","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}