In ‘Peak Car Use’: Understanding the Demise of Automobile Dependence, published last month in World Transport Policy and Practice, Peter Newman and Jeff Kenworthy, of the Curtin University Sustainability Policy (CUSP) Institute in Australia, summarize …
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Charged for what you use? Tennessee Commissioner of Transportation Schroer proposing pay-per-mile idea.
The downside of fuel efficiency is that fuel tax revenues decline with increased efficiency, while wear and tear on the roads does not. Tennessee is predicting it will lose tens of millions of dollars over …
VMT tax makes it to USA Today.
With all its complexity (or at least newness) and administrative and privacy concerns, the vehicle miles travelled tax is a subject of much more common discussion today than when the Oregon pilot project was initiated …
WSDOT quantifies the GHG reduction impact of sidewalk coverage.
“If you build it, they will come” seems to hold for building sidewalks. A recent report for the Washington State Department of Transportation found that increasing sidewalk coverage from 30 percent to 70 percent of …
VMT per capita declines in 2000s
In 2010, the 10-year rolling average for change in U.S. per capita VMT went negative. The decline was slight — .01 percent — but it stands in stark contrast to the growth that was the …
Casual car sharing meets the app age
Although casual car sharing has a long history, “The rise of cellphones and now smartphones has brought a whole new dimension to the process. Piggybacking on the casual-carpool model, Web sites and smartphone apps have …
Where are they going?
The reduction in VMT does not necessarily mean that people are traveling less.
Falling VMT and Insurance Rates with PAYD?
In its Clean Energy and Climate Plan, the authors assert that a mandatory charge-per-mile system for the entire state would reduce VMT by up to 9.5%. Massachusetts would like to find out. For a voluntary system, …
Equitable VMT reduction is possible, WSDOT report finds
An effective statewide VMT reduction program would not necessarily harm the poor and other vulnerable groups, a new report from the Washington State Department of Transportation finds. The report counters objections that such programs would …
From the Community of Practice: Impacts of VMT Reduction Strategies on Selected Areas and Groups
The Washington State Department of Transportation released a report [PDF] that examines impacts of VMT reduction strategies on selected groups and geographic areas. As described in the report’s abstract: “The State of Washington has established …