{"id":606,"date":"2016-09-27T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T20:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/09\/27\/study-says-best-long-term-highway-funding-mechanism-is-mileage-charge\/"},"modified":"2016-09-27T20:23:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T20:23:00","slug":"study-says-best-long-term-highway-funding-mechanism-is-mileage-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/study-says-best-long-term-highway-funding-mechanism-is-mileage-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Says Best Long Term Highway Funding Mechanism is Mileage Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The researchers:<\/strong>\u00a0School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis &amp; IndyGo<\/p>\n<p><strong>The study:<\/strong>&#8220;State and federal fuel taxes: The road ahead for U.S. infrastructure funding&#8221; published in January 2017 Journal of\u00a0Transport Policy\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>The reasons why a vehicle mileage tax is the best long term transportation funding source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>fuel tax revenues decline with no adjustment for inflation<\/li>\n<li>taxing vehicle mileage avoids long term revenue declines<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.iupui.edu\/releases\/2016\/09\/fuel-tax-study-dumortier.shtml\">Indiana University- Perdue University Indianapolis |\u00a0Study: Vehicle mileage tax is best option for long-term highway funding<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The researchers:<\/strong>\u00a0School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis &amp; IndyGo<\/p>\n<p><strong>The study:<\/strong>&#8220;State and federal fuel taxes: The road ahead for U.S. infrastructure funding&#8221; published in January 2017 Journal of\u00a0Transport Policy\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>The reasons why a vehicle mileage tax is the best long term transportation funding source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>fuel tax revenues decline with no adjustment for inflation<\/li>\n<li>taxing vehicle mileage avoids long term revenue declines<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.iupui.edu\/releases\/2016\/09\/fuel-tax-study-dumortier.shtml\">Indiana&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,8,17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-funding","category-motor-vehicles","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","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=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}