This paper investigates how strongly California residents support a range of tax and fee options to fund transportation. Because politicians are reluctant to raise tax levels to cover desired levels of transportation expenditures, policy makers are searching for revenue options with strong...

Quality of life in California depends in many ways on the freedom of people and goods to move safely from place to place when they want to do so, in a timely manner, at reasonable cost, and with reasonable choices among modes and routes of travel. However, our desire for mobility must be...

Behind all debates over the adequacy of highway revenues lies the tricky issue of how much money states mad the federal government ought to spend on highways. States and the federal government have historically tried to determine revenue needs with technical reports known as "needs assessments."...

Since 1923 motor fuel taxes have been the principal instrument by which revenues are raised for the construction and maintenance of the California highway system. Fuel taxes are distinguished from most other taxes because they have been conceived of as a “user fee†rather than as a...

Since 1923 motor fuel taxes have been the principal instrument by which revenues are raised for the construction and maintenance of the California highway system. Fuel takes are distinguished from most other taxes because they have been conceived of as a "user fee" rather than as a general tax....

Efforts to accommodate increasing and dispersed demand for travel in the face of mounting traffic congestion, escalating construction costs, limited rights of way, and diminished air quality have caused planning agencies to adopt plans that would enhance transit choices. Faced with fiscal...

Preface / Blas L. Pérez Henríquez and Elizabeth Deakin -- What have we learned so far from high-speed rail systems around the world? -- Introduction to HSR / Elizabeth Deakin -- Realizing the potential of HSR : the United Kingdom experience / David Banister and Moshe Givoni -- The Shinkansen...