Surface Transportation
- Report
Answer to a Question for the Record Following a Hearing on the Future of Highway Funding Conducted by the Senate Committee on Finance
The Senate Committee on Finance convened a hearing at which CBO testified on the status of the Highway Trust Fund and options for paying for highway spending. A question for the record was submitted. This document provides CBO’s answer.
- Report
Answer to a Question for the Record Following a Hearing on the Long-Term Financing of the Highway Trust Fund Conducted by the House Committee on Ways and Means
The House Ways and Means Committee convened a hearing at which CBO testified on the status of the Highway Trust Fund and options for paying for highway spending. A question for the record was submitted. This document provides CBO’s answer.
- Report
Testimony on the Status of the Highway Trust Fund and Options for Paying for Highway Spending
Highway Trust Fund revenue cannot support current spending. The fund’s projected shortfalls could be addressed by reducing spending, increasing tax revenue credited to the trust fund, or transferring money from the Treasury’s general fund.
- Report
Testimony on the Status of the Highway Trust Fund and Options for Paying for Highway Spending
Highway Trust Fund revenue cannot support current spending. The fund’s projected shortfalls could be addressed by reducing spending, increasing tax revenue credited to the trust fund, or transferring money from the Treasury’s general fund.
- Working Paper
Pricing Freight Transport to Account for External Costs: Working Paper 2015-03
This study examines policy options that could address the unpriced external costs of transporting freight by truck and by rail, including weight and distance charges, diesel fuel taxes, container fees, and the tire tax.
- Presentation
Issues Regarding the Renewable Fuel Standard
Presentation by Ron Gecan, an analyst in CBO’s Microeconomics Studies Division, at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Economics Association.
- Report
Public Spending on Transportation and Water Infrastructure, 1956 to 2014
This report provides information on spending by federal, state, and local governments for transportation and water infrastructure, which totaled $416 billion in 2014.
- Presentation
Social-Cost Pricing in Freight Transportation
Presentation by David Austin, an Analyst in CBO's Microeconomics Studies Division, at the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies' Conference on the Role of Freight Transportation in Economic Competitiveness
- Cost Estimate
S. 2777, Surface Transportation Board Reauthorization Act of 2014
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on September 17, 2014
- Presentation
The Renewable Fuel Standard: 2014 and Beyond
Presentation by Terry Dinan, Senior Advisor in CBO’s Microeconomic Studies Division. With Ron Gecan and David Austin, both of CBO.