MBUFA National Sponsor: The Reason Foundation
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Senate EPW Committee Highway Bill Includes $125 million for Mileage Based Pilots for Next Five Years
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On July 29th the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee reported a bill which significantly increases funding for testing road charging systems in the United States.
Included in the 5 year bill is a revised Surface Transportation System Funding Alternatives (STSFA) grant program which would provide $15 million per year for state pilots and $10 million per year for a national trial. The bill reduces the state pilot match to 30% from the current 50%. There is no match requirement for the national trial grant program.
Under the bill, new pilots should:
- Test the impact among differing income groups and among rural and urban drivers
- Develop recommendations for adoption and implementation
- Quantify and minimize the administrative costs
- Test a variety of solutions, including using 3rd party vendors, for collection of data and fees with a focus on reliability and security
- Test approaches to ensure privacy and data security
- Conduct public outreach and awareness regarding the need for road usage fees
- Evaluate ease of compliance and enforcement
Lastly, Geographic diversity is an important consideration in the award of grants.
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September 19 Quarterly Meeting to Feature
Bob Poole's Paper “A New Approach to the Transition from Per-Gallon to Per-Mile”
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Bob Poole from the Reason Foundation will make the first presentation of his paper "A New Approach to the Transition from Per Gallon to Per Mile" at the September 19 Quarterly Meeting.
Other items to be featured will be updates on the legislation in the U.S. Congress, updates from the state pilots, information from the MBUFA Advisory Council, plus a discussion of the future needs for MBUFA and MBUF with this transformative legislation.
Quarterly Meetings are for Members Only, but if interested in Membership, please contact
Barb Rohde at
[email protected] for further details
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Announcing Membership of the
California Transportation Commission
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The California Transportation Commission (Commission) is statutorily required to assess potential mechanisms including, but not limited to, a mileage-based revenue collection system to use as alternative method to the existing gas tax system for generating the revenue necessary to maintain and operate the state’s transportation system. The Commission formed a 15-member Road Charge Technical Advisory Committee in 2015 which continues to meet and inform road usage charge policy decisions. In conjunction with the California Department of Transportation and other relevant state agencies, the Commission continues to determine how a per-mile road usage charge could be implemented. In addition, the Commission is interested to discuss this issue with other states and also the federal government if a national road charge pilot program were to be undertaken.
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Announcing Membership of Transurban
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As one of the world’s largest toll-road operators, Transurban’s business is about getting people where they want to go, as quickly and safely as possible. Today we have 17 toll roads across North America and Australia, with another eight projects underway that will offer major improvements in the way drivers move around our cities. Here in the U.S. we are operating and developing a growing 63-mile network of Express Lanes on 495, 95 and soon 395 that have been among the first in the nation to use real-time pricing to keep Virginia drivers moving. Since opening the 495 Express Lanes in 2012, we have saved 6.5 million customers over 3 million hours with faster, more predictable travel options.
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Announcing Membership of Trexel Enterprises
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Trexel Enterprises, Inc. is a woman-owned, certified DBE that develops systems and technology specifically for Mileage-Based User Fee, RUC and VMT applications. Our modular approach allows integration with cost-effective components available now or that become available in the future. Our technology supports various mileage reporting options, scalable data collection and transaction processing, location-based zoning (geofencing), dynamic pricing, and standard interface with existing payment systems. We are experts in smartphone sensors and applications, cloud-based computing, security, cryptography, and communication systems. We are an innovative company that strives for customer satisfaction and delivering on our commitments.
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Senators Tout VMT
Absent Fix for Highway Trust Fund
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A $287 billion highway bill the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee easily advanced last month is notable for several big-picture proposals.
The five-year bill would enhance severe-weather resilience for infrastructure systems....
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Interested in Becoming a New Member?
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- AAA
- American Public Transportation Association
- Associated General Contractors of America
- Azuga
- California Transportation Commission
- Caltrans
- Cambridge Systematics
- CDM Smith
- Cofiroute USA
- Conduent
- Coretex
- Cubic Transportation Systems, Inc.
- ClearRoad, Inc.
- D'Artagnan Consulting
- Delaware Department of Transportation
- emovis
- EROAD
- Hawaii DOT
- HNTB
- Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
- I-95 Corridor Coalition
- Illinois Department of Transportation
- IMS part of TRAK GLOBAL Group
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- Indiana, Illinois, Iowa Foundation for Fair Contracting
- IBTTA (International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association)
- Jacobs
- Kapsch
- Minnesota Department of Transportation
- MSTS
- Nevada Department of Transportation
- New Zealand Government to Government Partnerships Ltd.
- North Carolina Department of Transportation
- Nossaman, LLP
- Oregon Department of Transportation
- Reason Foundation
- Southern California Association of Governments
- Transurban
- Trexel Enterprises
- Vehcon
- Verdeva, Inc.
- Washington Department of Transportation
- Washington State Transportation Commission
- WSP USA
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