Equity performance evaluation of two different pricing options: fuel tax per gallon and VMT fee

Kastrouni, Eirini

doi:10.31274/etd-180810-2318

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“…Recent studies on vehicle miles traveled (VMT) fees, levied on all travel in a jurisdiction, tend to agree that VMT fees are less regressive than fuel taxes in regard to income and in regard to shifting the tax burden from rural to urban households. Overall, though, the distributional impact of VMT fees seems to be negligible (13,20,21).…”

Section: Equity and Welfare Impacts Of Road User Chargingmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Despite the variation in findings, most studies seem to agree that fuel taxes are regressive: lower-income households pay a higher proportion of their incomes than do wealthier households (2,13). That conclusion is not surprising since transport expenditure as a whole makes up a larger proportion of incomes of lower-income households than of higher-income households (14).…”

Section: Equity and Welfare Impacts Of Road User Chargingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Tax or Toll?

Venter

Joubert

2014

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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As user charging increasingly supplements taxation as a transport financing mechanism worldwide, the need to measure and understand its distributional impacts across affected groups grows more critical. The case of the 185-km Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project in the Johannesburg–Pretoria area of South Africa offers an opportunity to empirically examine the equity impacts of large-scale road pricing in middle-income countries. The paper reports on the novel use of GPS data from multiple sources to assess the distribution of benefits and costs of electronic tolling across passenger and freight users. GPS data from commercial truck fleets are combined with multiday GPS tracks from a panel of private vehicle drivers to derive measures of user benefit by class. Compared with an alternative hypothecated fuel tax, electronic tolling is more progressive in regard to income and vehicle class because such tolling transfers costs from private to commercial vehicles, in line with the greater pavement damage caused by trucks. Time-of-day discounts favoring commercial vehicles suggests that the injudicious application of discounts and exemptions can distort rather than enhance equity in road pricing projects.

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Section: Equity and Welfare Impacts Of Road User Chargingmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Equity and Welfare Impacts Of Road User Chargingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Venter

Joubert

2014

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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“…Because of the small sample sizes, as well as the possible biases as a consequence of the use of voluntary participants, researchers have largely been unable to rely on pilot results, because data for empirical work on the impacts of RUC implementation have been lacking. Most empirical work has used the 2001 or 2009 National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) data set to predict the effects that RUCs would have on household behavior (2,7,(10)(11)(12)(13).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Within the NHTS, households are categorized as urban or rural on the basis of 2000 U.S. Census criteria. With the use of the definitions of rural and urban, researchers have agreed that, under the fuel tax system, rural households tended to drive more miles than their urban counterparts (7,(11)(12)(13). In the short run, most researchers found that the average rural household stood to gain more from the adoption of RUCs than urban households, perhaps because rural vehicle fleets were made up of more inefficient vehicles (7,12).…”

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“…The importance of the use of a more detailed geographic classification system to look at the distributional impacts was discussed by Kastrouni (13). She argued that location-specific models should be developed to evaluate local changes as a result of an RUC implementation, because research on the determinants of VMT demand suggested that determinants were site specific.…”

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Importance of Recognizing Locational Differences in Assessing the Impact of a Road User Charge: Oregon Case Study

McMullen¹,

Wang

2016

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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Oregon Senate Bill 810 created a program that allows drivers to pay a flat-mileage road user charge (RUC) of 1.5 cents per mile rather than the 30 cents per gallon state fuel tax. Major concerns about the adoption of this RUC are that it could increase costs for rural households relative to urban households and that the costs would fall disproportionately on lower-income groups. Further, it has been suggested that significant differences in the impact of the RUC could arise from locational distinctions beyond the urban–rural split alone. Earlier studies analyzed the regional impacts of an RUC only at the statewide level or only with the use of a broad urban–rural distinction. The newly available Oregon Households Activity Survey (OHAS) data provide detailed household location information, which permits impacts to be assessed with regional and geographic definitions relevant to policy makers in Oregon. Results with the use of OHAS data showed that, on average, statewide households would pay 5 cents more daily under the RUC than they did under the fuel tax because the 1.5 cents per mile RUC actually will produce more gross revenue than the fuel tax. However, the price increase in rural regions will be less than the statewide average, whereas more urban regions will pay slightly more than the statewide average. Further, the distributional impact of the flat 1.5 cents RUC on all households in the OHAS data set differed, depending on the region of the state examined.

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A Framework and Analytical Approach to Evaluate Alternative Vehicle Miles Traveled (Vmt) Fee Systems

Ebacher¹

2014

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Equity performance evaluation of two different pricing options: fuel tax per gallon and VMT fee

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Importance of Recognizing Locational Differences in Assessing the Impact of a Road User Charge: Oregon Case Study

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